Bijen en hommels

Bees and bumblebees

The honey bee, its wild relatives and the bumblebees. Hover a picture, or tap it on a phone, to hear the name.

18 words

Image credits

Photographs and drawings come from Wikimedia Commons and are reproduced under the licences below. All have been resized and converted to WebP for this site; they are otherwise unaltered.

de honingbij — Apis_mellifera_Western_honey_bee.jpg by Andreas Trepte, CC BY-SA 2.5
de hommel — Bombus_lapidarius_-_Melilotus_officinalis_-_Tallinn.jpg by Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0
de aardhommel — Bombus_terrestris.jpg by Marco Almbauer, CC0
de steenhommel — Bombus_lapidarius_queen_-_Echium_vulgare_-_Keila.jpg by Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0
de akkerhommel — Bombus_pascuorum_female_2_(aka).jpg by André Karwath aka Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5
de tuinhommel — Bombus_hortorum_-_Linaria_vulgaris_-_Valingu.jpg by Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0
de boomhommel — Tree_bumblebee_(Bombus_hypnorum).jpg by Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 3.0
de weidehommel — Bombus_pratorum_(male)_-_Knautia_arvensis_-_Keila.jpg by Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0
de rosse metselbij — Osmia_rufa_couple_(aka).jpg by André Karwath aka Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5
de gehoornde metselbij — Male_and_female_Osmia_cornuta_-_La_Pairelle.jpg by Gilles San Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0
de behangersbij — Megachile_centuncularis_Male.jpg by The Packer Lab, Attribution
de blauwzwarte houtbij — Xylocopa_violacea_female_1.jpg by Gideon Pisanty (Gidip) גדעון פיזנטי, CC BY 3.0
het vosje — Andrena_fulva01.jpg by Entomart, Attribution
de asbij — Andrena_cineraria.jpg by orangeaurochs, CC BY 2.0
de grote wolbij — Anthidium_manicatum_male.jpg by Bruce Marlin, CC BY-SA 2.5
de pluimvoetbij — DasypodaHirtipesFemale1.jpg by Christian Fischer, CC BY-SA 3.0
de klimopbij — (MHNT)_Colletes_hederae_on_Hederae_inflorescence.jpg by Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0
de gewone sachembij — Anthophora_plumipes_male.jpg by pjt56, CC BY 3.0