Rain Refugee - _TNY_5409
Another refugee today on my mother-in-law's veranda from the plentiful rains lately was this somewhat disheveled bumblebee.
In Sweden we surprisingly have as many as 43 species of bumblebee and I am not 100% sure about the ID here, but with the lack of pollen baskets, I'm thinking this is a male rather than a cuckoo bumblebee and currently leaning towards a male shrill carder bee (Bombus sylvarum), also known as the knapweed carder-bee.
Rain Refugee - _TNY_5409
Another refugee today on my mother-in-law's veranda from the plentiful rains lately was this somewhat disheveled bumblebee.
In Sweden we surprisingly have as many as 43 species of bumblebee and I am not 100% sure about the ID here, but with the lack of pollen baskets, I'm thinking this is a male rather than a cuckoo bumblebee and currently leaning towards a male shrill carder bee (Bombus sylvarum), also known as the knapweed carder-bee.