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moss carder bee nectaring on a yellow flower

Moss Carder Bee Bombus muscorum

A scarce but widespread all-ginger carder bumblebee, found in open flower-rich grasslands where it shows a strong preference for clover, knapweed, red bartsia and similar flower species. The species is more frequent in the north and west, and is largely coastal in the south. Image: © Nik Borrow, Flickr.

Find out more: iNaturalist, Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society, Bumblebee Conservation Trust


 

Suffolk’s Priority Ant, Bee and Wasp Species

Brown-banded Carder Bee
Large Garden Bumblebee
Moss Carder Bee
Red-shanked Carder Bee
Sea-aster Colletes Bee
Fen Mason-wasp
Five-banded Tailed Digger Wasp
Weevil Hunting Wasp