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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 Bombus  (Bombus Subgenus Bombus ) » Cryptic Bumble Bee (Bombus cryptarum)
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Bombus sp. - Bombus cryptarum - female
Copyright © 2009 R. Bercha

Bombus sp. - Bombus cryptarum - Female
Southern, Alberta, Canada
Possibly Bombus lucorum?

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Bombus sp. - Bombus cryptarum - female Bombus sp. - Bombus cryptarum - female
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Contributed by R. Bercha on 8 March, 2009 - 12:12am
Last updated 11 November, 2009 - 8:58am

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Bombus .
… John S. Ascher, 11 November, 2009 - 8:58am login or register to post comments

it does look like lucorum
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… John S. Ascher, 8 March, 2009 - 10:44am login or register to post comments

 
Top View
Here is a second photo showing a dorsal view - does this help firm up the ID?
… R. Bercha, 8 March, 2009 - 12:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Bombus cryptorum/lucorum
Under that pretty white back end, does your bbee have a black tip? If you like and are able you can view my photos of what is seemingly the same bbee which I am left with the same questions as yours.
… Deborah Evans, 25 July, 2014 - 12:23pm login or register to post comments

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