This pocket bumblebee identification guide is an easy-to-use key designed to help you identify the six most common UK bumblebee species by looking at the insects' colour patterns.
Standard, generally-agreed-upon principles of taxomony guide the naming of groups as species. Chief among these principles is that species-specific characteristics can exist because members of ...
and that did reliably identify individuals of these otherwise morphologically similar species. European honey bee workers and drones showed consistent GC patterns. Race-specific similarities in GC ...