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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 Thoracobombus (Bombus Subgenus Thoracobombus) » American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus)
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Bumble Bee - Bombus pensylvanicus - female
Copyright © 2005 Charles Schurch Lewallen

Bumble Bee - Bombus pensylvanicus - Female
Henryetta, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, USA
July 19, 2005
I have always called large black and yellow bees "bumble bees", but I know that there are several kinds of large black and yellow bees.
Can we tell which this is?
Also yesterday afternoon I saw one of these bees fly to a frostweed plant and come to rest under one of the leaves( the plant was in the shade). It preened and then rested.
I did not stay around to see how long.
The bees collect pollen untill after sunset.
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Contributed by Charles Schurch Lewallen on 20 July, 2005 - 12:12pm
Last updated 14 September, 2011 - 4:11pm

Moved
Moved from Bumble Bees.
… Beatriz Moisset, 18 November, 2008 - 8:11pm login or register to post comments

B. pensylvanicus
This is Bombus (Fervidobombus) pensylvanicus
… John S. Ascher, 22 September, 2006 - 9:26pm login or register to post comments

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