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brown-tailed bumblebee on Ceanothus impressus - Bombus mixtus - 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 |