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Species Bombus terricola - Yellowbanded Bumble Bee

Bumblebee with eggs on it's back? - Bombus terricola

Family Apidae? - Bombus terricola - female

Bombus terricola queen? - Bombus terricola

Which Bumble Bee Please? - Bombus terricola

yellow-banded bumble bee - Bombus terricola - male

Bombus terricola? - Bombus terricola - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps)

No Taxon (Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees)

Family Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)

Subfamily Apinae (Honey, Bumble, and Digger Bees)

Tribe Bombini (Bumble Bees)

Genus Bombus (Bumble Bees)

No Taxon (Subgenus Bombus )

Species terricola (Yellowbanded Bumble Bee)

Other Common Names

by extension, the western subspecies (occidentalis) could be called Western Yellowbanded Bumble Bee

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

eastern subspecies is B. t. terricola

western subspecies is B. t. occidentalis

see comments by John Ascher here

Size

queen: body length 17-19 mm

male: 13-17 mm

worker: 9-14 mm

Identification

see discoverlife.org for detailed descriptions of queen and male; worker resembles queen in general, but pubescence relatively longer

Range

B. t. terricola occurs in eastern North America

B. t. occidentalis occurs in western North America

see comments by John Ascher here

Season

April to October

Internet References

24 pinned adult images plus detailed description of queen, worker, male, distribution, seasonality, flower records, similar species (discoverlife.org)

discussion of taxonomic status of terricola and occidentalis (Paul Williams, Natural History Museum, UK)

common name reference; PDF doc [Yellowbanded Bumble Bee] (Committee on Common Names of Insects, Entomological Society of America)

Discover Life

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 11 July, 2005 - 2:21pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod
Last updated 31 December, 2007 - 12:10pm

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