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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 Pyrobombus (Bombus Subgenus Pyrobombus) » Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens)
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Egg cells - July 4th - Bombus impatiens - female
Copyright © 2010 Vespula Vulgaris

Egg cells - July 4th - Bombus impatiens - Female
Perry County, Pennsylvania, USA
This is how impatiens nests get so much larger than other species. You can see a chain of about 15 egg cells in this photo. Each one contains at least 4 eggs. The queen is laying eggs daily now. This nest is not even comparable to the bimaculatus nest last year, which never had over 20 workers at any point and got no larger than the size of a baseball

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Bombus impatiens nest - May 30th - Bombus impatiens - female Ovipositing queen - June 29th - Bombus impatiens - female Ovipositing queen - June 29th - Bombus impatiens - female Egg cells - July 4th - Bombus impatiens - female Inside the impatiens nest - August 19th - Bombus impatiens
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Contributed by Vespula Vulgaris on 4 July, 2010 - 4:30pm
Last updated 21 October, 2016 - 12:20pm

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