
I think this could be a Bombus terrestris, or buff-tailed bumblebee ?

Love the orange neck-scarf on this one, think it might be Bombus hypnorum, which apparently only arrived in the UK in 2001 (according to Bumblebee Conservation Trust)?

Don't recall seeing its rear end, but if it's reddish, it might be a red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) ? I've definitely seen one of those elsewhere in Oxford.

I think this one is an ordinary European honey bee Apis mellifera - we may be in reach of the colony housed in the Oxford University Museum.
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All correct apart from the first (top) which is a male white-tailed bumblebee.
Ben
BBCT
Thanks Ben! More (and better) bumblebee pictures to follow on Wed!
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