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Queen (female) on Echium vulgare. Kavčič, Rakitovec, Kraški rob, June 2009.

 

Bombus argillaceus (Scopoli, 1763)

 

 

North Mediterranean species. In the sub-Mediterranean, pre-Alpine and sub-Pannonian regions of Slovenia.

Polylectic social species. Nests in abandoned mouse nests.

 

Worker (female) on Stachys recta. Lukovec, Kras, June 2009.

 

 

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Andrej Gogala: Bee fauna of Slovenia