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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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B. pensylvanicus nest - Bombus pensylvanicus - female
Copyright © 2009 Michael

B. pensylvanicus nest - Bombus pensylvanicus - Female
Ohio, USA
September 16, 2009
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young Bombus nest - Bombus pensylvanicus - female young Bombus nest - Bombus pensylvanicus - female B. pensylvanicus nest - Bombus pensylvanicus - female
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Contributed by Vespula Vulgaris on 19 October, 2009 - 6:33pm
Last updated 21 October, 2016 - 12:22pm

nice! Hornissen, how are the
nice! Hornissen, how are they doing?
Did they make queens and males?
… Liz Day, 26 October, 2009 - 9:50pm login or register to post comments

 
He says
They made some queens but no males. He thinks low temperatures came and killed the colony before all the queens and males could hatch out
… Vespula Vulgaris, 30 December, 2009 - 10:16pm login or register to post comments

Nice find!
Nice job taking care of them and taking pictures. I would like to hear if there were further developments in this story.
… Beatriz Moisset, 22 October, 2009 - 2:51pm login or register to post comments

i love those little fellas
had a nest in a flower pot once they are so nonagressive its amazing watched them all summer.
… Edna Woodward, 19 October, 2009 - 9:22pm login or register to post comments

Really cool shots!
My thanks to you (and your friend) for sharing these nest photos.
… Harsi S. Parker, 19 October, 2009 - 8:33pm login or register to post comments

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