Buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) worker emerging from a nest burrow entrance on a chalk grassland hillside, Marlborough Downs, Wiltshire, UK.

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Buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) worker emerging from a nest burrow entrance on a chalk grassland hillside to forage for its colony, Marlborough Downs, Wiltshire, UK, May.

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Size: 3664px × 2442px
Location: Wiltshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Nick Upton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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