the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Bombidae (bumble-bee) > bombus muscorum (5)
More fully carder bee. Any of several bumblebees or other bees which make a nest of shredded grass or moss above ground. Occasionally with…
(more fully moss carder bee) a yellowish-brown bumblebee of Europe and northern Asia, Bombus muscorum, which makes its nest of moss or grass shreds.