The bumble bee fauna of Greece, an update.

In the recent issue of Entomofauna (2009) #30 a paper was published concerning bumblebee specimens collected from Flórina Prefecture, Northwestern region of Macedonia, Greece. From the information in this paper five species new to the Greek bumblebee fauna are presented, thus updating the current record in Greece to a total of 33 Bombus species. The paper is:

Anagnostopoulos, I. T. 2009. New records of bumble bees from the Northwestern mountainous region of Greece (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Entomofauna 30: 445-449.

If a request is made to me by e-mail I can sent a printed copy of the above paper or one can order it from Entomofauna.

As already mentioned the majority of the blog material on “Greek bumblebees” is presented in the affiliated Greek language blog in order to raise awareness in Greece for these magnificent insects. Here selected material is presented (due to lack of time) that I think may interest “the world”… but it has been pointed out to me from none Greek readers that they can understand the Greek blog from translation engines found in the web. If you fine that something is left out from “Greek bumble bees” and should be included here in English… a simple request will make it “happen”.

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