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brown-tailed bumblebee on Ceanothus impressus - Bombus mixtus - female
Copyright © 2008 Andrew Reding

brown-tailed bumblebee on Ceanothus impressus - Bombus mixtus - Female
Port Townsend, Jefferson County, Washington, USA
May 26, 2007
Identified based on the key for species known to occur at nearby Evergreen, Washington State:
http://academic.evergreen.edu/projects/ants/TESCBiota/kingdom/animalia/phylum/arthropoda/class/insecta/order/hymenoptera/family/apidae/bombus/info.htm
Contributed by Andrew Reding on 19 February, 2008 - 12:16pm
Last updated 18 October, 2009 - 11:17am

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Pyrobombus.
… John S. Ascher, 18 October, 2009 - 11:17am

Moved
Moved from Bombus mixtus.
It is better to wait for confirmation. Do you have other images?
… Beatriz Moisset, 26 April, 2009 - 7:41am

 
I think it is mixtus
so have moved it there
… John S. Ascher, 18 October, 2009 - 11:17am

Moved
Moved from Bumble Bees.
… Andrew Reding, 5 May, 2008 - 12:17pm

Bombus (Pyrobombus)
female
… John S. Ascher, 19 February, 2008 - 5:18pm

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