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20-12-2009, 04:12 PM
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| | | bombus terrestris?
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20-12-2009, 04:28 PM
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| | | Re: bombus terrestris?
There is a possibilty it's Bombus lucorum, without a better look at the tail colour it's hard to say.
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20-12-2009, 04:37 PM
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| | | Re: bombus terrestris?
Tail colour is problematic with workers its best to record these as terrestris/lucorum, unless you have a specimen to look at in detail. Also can you please state where the photo was taken, size, habitat and time of year (in general, not so much just bee's). |
20-12-2009, 04:49 PM
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Thanks for the input Dogg, not seen much of you lately.Good to see you back! 
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20-12-2009, 05:02 PM
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hows this Janet? I thought someone may ask!
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20-12-2009, 05:07 PM
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| | | Re: bombus terrestris?
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hows this Janet? I thought someone may ask! | Well, on balance I would opt for B. lucorum as there doesn't appear to be any glare on the white to cancel out any other colour. B. terrestris can have white tails, but there is generally a thin brown line along the top edge. Not 100% though, although in my (limited) experience B. lucorum can appear a little shaggier than B. terrestris. Yours look a little shaggier to me.  |
20-12-2009, 05:20 PM
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| | | Re: bombus terrestris?
Thankyou! To my eyes in this pic there appears to be a suggestion of a brownish line! 
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Thankyou! To my eyes in this pic there appears to be a suggestion of a brownish line! | Yes, in that pic I see one too which goes to show you have to have several angles and even then it's not necessarily certain! | | |
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