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Yellow-faced Bumblebee - Bombus vosnesenskii
Copyright © 2009 Elliotte Rusty Harold

Yellow-faced Bumblebee - Bombus vosnesenskii
Bommer Canyon, Orange County, California, USA
June 20, 2009
Size: ~2cm
Bombus vosneskii? Found this one before it had really woken up, in the middle of a light rain (or what passes for rain here in Irvine).

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Yellow-faced Bumblebee - Bombus vosnesenskii Yellow-faced Bumblebee - Bombus vosnesenskii
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Contributed by Elliotte Rusty Harold on 20 June, 2009 - 6:53pm
Last updated 25 June, 2009 - 12:46pm

B. vosneskii looks fine to me.
We don't have a lot of Bombus species here, and yellow-faced bees are out now.
… Ron Hemberger, 21 June, 2009 - 10:28am login or register to post comments

 
note spelling
vosnesenskii

much smaller than 2cm
… John S. Ascher, 21 June, 2009 - 10:54am login or register to post comments

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