Non-honey bees

…and the most cat-like bumblebee is the brown-banded carder bee! It just struck me how similar they are. Bombus humilis is called “trzmiel zmienny” in Polish, which means “the variable bumblebee”. It’s really accurate name. This species can come in various colour forms, some of them so dissimilar that you could think they are different species. My favourite form is the one I nicknamed ‘calico’ on the cartoon below.

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