common carder bee

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common carder bee (countable and uncountable, plural common carder bees)

  1. A species of bumblebee, Bombus pascuorum, long recognised as an example of the carder bees.
    • 2018 May 25, Eric Hilaire, The Guardian[1]:
      This common carder bee was spotted in Southville, Bristol by Neil James Brain as part of the 2016 count.