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Female on Lamium. Ig, Draga, April 2008.

 

Bombus hortorum (Linnaeus, 1761)

 

 

European species, widely distributed in Slovenia.

Polylectic social species. Nests in abandoned mouse nests or bird nests.

 

Queen female resting on Glechoma hederacea. Bistra, Ljubljansko barje, April 2010 (above and below).

 

 

Razširjenost vrste v Sloveniji.

Razširjena in pogosta vrsta.

 

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Andrej Gogala: Bee fauna of Slovenia