№ 1034-1038. Fauna. Insects

The Armenian bumblebee. It is met in the South of the European Russia and in the Far South of the Western Siberia. It dwells in the forest-steppe and in steppe region, in the Caucasian, Tien Shan and Pamirs foothills. This bumblebee catches nectar and pollen from grasses and bushes of bean family, of labiate family, of composite and borago.

The steppes bumblebee. The natural habitat is the same as for the Armenian bumblebee. It catches pollen from the grasses and bushes predominantly of the composite family.

The hermit-bumblebee. Its natural habitat is forest-steppe and steppe parts of the Primorsky region, it can be met in Khabarovsk region and in the South of Baikal region. The initially low population of this species is reducing constantly as a result of uncontrolled cutting of grass, cattle pasture and using of pesticides.

The rarest bumblebee. Like hermit-bumblebee it can be met in the far Northern parts of the Easetern-Asian regions. It gathers nectar and pollen from many kinds of flowering plants.

The bumblebee named by Chersky inhabits the same areas as bumblebee the rearest and bumblebee the hermit. It collects the nectar and the pollen mainly from the plants with deep corona of the flower – i.e. from labiates and from legumes.