Bumble Bee Collection

Curtis British Entomology Plate 564
Hymenoptera: *Bombus ericetorum (Heath Humble-bee, Bumble-bee), cf. male Bombus subterraneus (seemingly not the Mainland-European B. hypnorum ssp. ericetorum)

Curtis British Entomology Plate 468
Hymenoptera: Psithyrus rupestris (Black-winged Bumble-bee) [Plant: Digitalis purpurea (Purple Foxglove)] Date: 1824-39

Met Police Commissioner, Operation Bumblebee
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Condon (now Baron Condon, b 1947), giving a talk about Operation Bumblebee, a campaign for burglary prevention launched in 1993. Date: circa 1993

Various Insects C1880
Beetles and flying insects. Date: circa 1880

Bombus pascorum, common carder bee
A female Bombus pascorum, common carder bee visiting a plant in the wildlife garden

Bombus sp. bumble bee
Side-view mid-flight photograph of a bumble bee, photograph taken in the U.K

Bombus hypnorum, bumblebee
A bumblebee perched on Lythrum salicaria, purple loosetrife, in the Natural History Museums Wildlife Garden

Bombus sp. bumblebee visiting a flower
A bumblebee visiting an attractive garden flower, collecting nectar and adding pollen to the pollen sac shown here on its hind leg

Odontoglossum alexandrea, orchid
Illustration by Arthur Harry Church, 1907. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Stolen property display, Operation Bumblebee
A display of stolen property, forming part of Operation Bumblebee, a campaign for burglary prevention launched in 1993. This display consists of musical instruments: guitars, violins, saxophones

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