Listen to the common carder bumblebee
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About the common carder bumblebee
The common carder bumblebee is a insect in the family Apidae (order Hymenoptera). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”.
What does the common carder bumblebee sound like?
Insects make sound mechanically: crickets and grasshoppers rub a scraper against a file (stridulation), cicadas buckle ribbed membranes called tymbals, and bees and mosquitoes hum with their wingbeats.
From Wikipedia
Bombus pascuorum, the common carder bee, is a species of bumblebee present in most of Europe in a wide variety of habitats such as meadows, pastures, waste ground, ditches and embankments, roads, and field margins, as well as gardens and parks in urban areas and forests and forest edges. It is similar in appearance to Bombus muscorum, and is replacing that species in northern Britain.
More from the family Apidae
Frequently asked questions
What does a common carder bumblebee sound like?
You can hear 1 recording of the common carder bumblebee on this page. Insects make sound mechanically: crickets and grasshoppers rub a scraper against a file (stridulation), cicadas buckle ribbed membranes called tymbals, and bees and mosquitoes hum with their wingbeats.
Is the common carder bumblebee endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the common carder bumblebee as “least concern”.
What family does the common carder bumblebee belong to?
The common carder bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum) belongs to the family Apidae in the order Hymenoptera.
Sources & credits
- Bee sounds near Cologne, Germany - reinsamba by reinsamba – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q267532 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Bombus pascuorum – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Ivar Leidus – CC BY-SA 4.0