Red tailed bumblebees and other 3 bumblebee species mating
You don’t often get to see bumblebees mating. Here I was lucky to be in the right places at the right times to film: B. lapidarius, B. hypnorum, B. terrestris? and B. pratorum.
I had some strange looks from passers-by whilst filming this!!
The queen is rather luckier than many I have seen as she only had one mite on her that I could see. Sometimes bumblebees can be literally crawling with the mites, many of which are harmless.
Other species filmed….
Possibly Bombus terrestris
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