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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Bumble Bees (Bombini) » Bumble Bees (Bombus) » Subgenus Pyrobombus (Bombus Subgenus Pyrobombus) » Fuzzy-horned Bumble Bee (Bombus mixtus)
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Bombus mixtus? - Bombus mixtus - female
Copyright © 2007 Sean McCann

Bombus mixtus? - Bombus mixtus - Female
Burnaby, Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada
May 30, 2007
Size: 15mm
From this nest:

I checked this key from WA and it seems to fit.
http://academic.evergreen.edu/projects/ants/TESCBiota/kingdom/animalia/phylum/arthropoda/class/insecta/order/hymenoptera/family/apidae/bombus/Bombus/mixtus/mix.htm

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Bombus mixtus? - Bombus mixtus - female Bombus mixtus? - Bombus mixtus - female Bombus mixtus? - Bombus mixtus - female
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Contributed by Sean McCann on 30 May, 2007 - 11:27am
Last updated 2 May, 2008 - 12:26pm

Moved
Moved from Bumble Bees.
… Sean McCann, 2 May, 2008 - 12:26pm login or register to post comments

Yes
That is correct
… Andrew Reding, 2 May, 2008 - 11:20am login or register to post comments

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