Bombus terrestris

Family: ApidaeGenus: Bombusheimisch in Deutschland

heimisch in Deutschland

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327

Plants

visited

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440

Interactions

documented

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Host plants

known

About this species

A bivoltine bumblebee found in Britain, with a polylectic diet and a facultative inquiline habit, active from January to October.

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Annual cycle

Adults are active from January to October, with two generations per year.

Merkmale

Ernährung & Verhalten

Food

polylectic/facultative inquiline

Generationen/Jahr

bivoltin

Scientific profile

Bombus terrestris is a bivoltine bee in the family Apidae. It has two generations each year. The species is polylectic, collecting pollen from many different plant families. It is also recorded as a facultative inquiline; queens may occasionally take over the nests of other bumblebees rather than founding their own colony. Adults are active from January to October, making it one of the earliest bumblebees to emerge. The species is recorded in Great Britain.

Host plants

1 plants serve as food for the larvae

Salix daphnoides

Visited plants

299 plants are visited by this species

Lythrum salicariaMalva sylvestrisEchiumImpatiens glanduliferaEupatorium cannabinumAnthyllis vulneraria subsp. polyphyllaLophiolepis eriophoraCrepis capillarisGeranium sanguineumErysimum cheiri Stellaria holostea Mahonia aquifolium Mentha arvensisValeriana officinalisPrimula veris Mentha suaveolens Carduus crispusConvolvulus arvensisThalictrum flavum Trifolium hybridum Cirsium arvense Geranium pyrenaicum Salix pentandra Salix viminalis Epilobium hirsutumLamium purpureum var. incisumSenecio squalidusPrunus padus subsp. borealisCrataegus monogynaAngelica sylvestris subsp. bernardiaeSinapis arvensis subsp. arvensisLotus pedunculatusCarduus nutans subsp. nutansCampanula latifolia Viola odorata Anthriscus sylvestris Filipendula ulmaria Prunus cerasifera Tripolium pannonicum Verbena officinalisMalus domesticaVicia craccaArctium lappaAchillea ptarmicaSymphytum officinaleMalva moschataGeranium robertianum var. maritimumMentha spicataStachys officinalisMalus sylvestris

Sources & Data Origin

•SAFEGUARD Pollinator Traits — CC BY 4.0SAFEGUARD Pollinator Traits contributors (wild-bee release 2024-09-22; hoverfly release 2024-03-26).

•TraitCH — CC BY 4.0TraitCH 2.0 contributors; imported as source-preserving NaturKompass taxon evidence.

•Interaktionsdaten via GloBI (CC-BY 4.0)

•Neff et al. (2025) — Swiss Moth Traits, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14506883 (CC BY)

•GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — GBIF Secretariat (2024), DOI: 10.15468/39omei (CC BY 4.0)

•EBHD — European Biodiversity Hub Database v2025, Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17107215 (CC BY 4.0)

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