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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) » Half-black Bumble Bee (Bombus vagans)

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Copyright © 2008 Mary Ellen Grant

Bombus sp - Bombus vagans -

Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
July 25, 2008
Size: 2 cm

July 29th, 2008 NOTE: It looks like this critter is a Bombus vagans female.

July 25th, 2008 NOTE: Followed this critter all over the garden trying to get a picture of its pollen baskets only to realize it only had 2 wings not 4; therefore NOT a bee and NO pollen basket!
I THOUGHT it is in Laphriinae and possibly Laphria thoracica.

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Bombus sp - Bombus vagans - female

Bumble Bee - Bombus vagans

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Contributed by Mary Ellen Grant on 25 July, 2008 - 11:21pm
Last updated 12 December, 2009 - 11:21am

Bombus (Pyrobombus)

my best guess is B. vagans female

… John S. Ascher, 26 July, 2008 - 7:31pm

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Bombus vagans

Thanks John for the id. I will try to re-key myself just as a learning opportunity.

… Mary Ellen Grant, 29 July, 2008 - 1:04pm

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Bombus sp

This is a Bumble Bee. Check out the antennae on yours and compare to this one. It is quite easy to not see the second pair of wings while they are busily nectaring flower to flower to flower... Just takes a little more practice. I think it's a male but I can't help with species. One of our experts will be along to offer an opinion.

… Stephen Schueman, 26 July, 2008 - 12:39am

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Oops!

My first thought was Bumble Bee but convinced myself it wasn't - will try to id it as a bee. Thanks Stephen!
Mary Ellen

… Mary Ellen Grant, 26 July, 2008 - 12:43am

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No worries

I often sit looking at a Laphria and wonder why that bee looks so odd!:)

… Stephen Schueman, 26 July, 2008 - 1:01am

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Perhaps Bombus suckleyi?

I think I have found the species by using Discover Life and have keyed out to Bombus suckleyi.

… Mary Ellen Grant, 26 July, 2008 - 2:20pm

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not suckleyi

not a Psithyrus

… John S. Ascher, 26 July, 2008 - 7:32pm

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