Tricky chaps, bumble-bees! The small garden bumblebee is another species quite common in gardens and with a white tail too but this one has a middle yellow band that is part on the thorax and part on the abdomen so you need to get a good look as it devours nectar from your garden blossoms.
This species, along with the common carder bee, are particularly fond of foxgloves and so that is a good place to go looking for them. It is fascinating to see them work a foxglove plant, usually from the bottom flower upwards until the flowers get too small to climb in to.
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