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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Psyche Volume 2010, Article ID 819740, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2010/819740 Research Article The Bumble Bees of Ukraine: Species Distribution and Floral Preferences Irene B. Konovalova State Museum of Natural History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Teatralna Street 18, 79008 Lviv, Ukraine Correspondence should be addressed to Irene B. Konovalova, iren@ Received 4 August 2009; Accepted 11 December 2009 Academic Editor: Claus Rasmussen Copyright © 2010 Irene B. Konovalova. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The bumble bees were studied in Ukraine between 2002 and 2009 under field conditions, by examining historical and recent collections and by the literature data. Forty one species are reported from the whole territory, 32 of them being recorded from the forest-steppe zone. Ten species are rare in all their habitats: B. confusus, B. distinguendus, B. fragrans, B. gerstaeckeri, B. ruderatus, B. armeniacus, B. mesomelas, B. laesus, B. veteranus, and B. cullumanus. The present persistence of the steppe species B. armeniacus, B. laesus, and B. cullumanus is restricted to the eastern part of the country, and B. fragrans—to the Crimean Peninsula. The information on distribution, abundance, habitat, and floral preferences of bumble bees is also provided. 1. Introduction 2. Materials and Methods It is rather strange that at present so little is known in the 2.1. Geographical Regions of Area Studied. The Ukrainian World about the Ukrainian bumble bees, sin