Hostile Takeover Bumblebee - _TNY_6794

            A four-coloured cuckoo bumblebee (Bombus quadricolor) eating nectar on a purple flower.

If you look closely at the hind legs, you'll notice that it lacks the pollen baskets which "regular" bumblebees have. The answer is that "cuckoo" part of the name. Just like the cuckoo bird, these parasitise on other species (these on Bombus lucorum), but they take it a step further than just leaving your offspring to be raised by others. Here, she enters the nest of the other species and either chase the other queen away or outright kill her and destroy her eggs. The workers of the colony are convinced she is "their" queen using pheromones and will raise her larvae to adult bumblebees.

Because of their more violent lifestyle, cuckoo bumblebees generally have larger mandibles and stinger/veom sac and there are about 30 known species in the world and eight of them can be found in Sweden.

Taken in: Sweden / Västernorrland / Hanaberg (show map)

Taken on: August 9, 2018

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macro

Canon

CanonEOS5DMarkII

Canon 5D Mark II

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Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

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DCR-250

Bombus

quadricolor

broksnylthumla

snylthumla

humla

Hummel

bumblebee

cuckoo bumblebee

Apidae

Apiformes

Apoidea

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midjestekel

stekel

Hymenoptera

Apocrita

Aculeata

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Vierfarbige Kuckuckshummel

Kuckuckshummel

four-coloured cuckoo bumblebee

pollinating

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purple

Psithyrus

gökhumla

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/16.0, 1/200 sec, 100mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens:	EF100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Aperture:	f/16.0
Exposure Time:	0.005 sec (1/200)
Focal Length:	100mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	On, Fired
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 23.3 (Windows)
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