garden bumblebee bombus hortorum showing its massive tongue

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Garden Bumblebee - Bombus hortorum showing its massive tongue.

A Garden Bumblebee showing its massive tongue. This species has the longest tongue of all the UK bumblebees. The tongue can be up to 2cm, as long as its own body and enables it to reach right inside flowers like cowslips and foxgloves.