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Yellow-banded Bumble Bee (Bombus terricola)
Photo#52384
Copyright © 2006
Mardon Erbland
Family Apidae? -
Bombus terricola
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Clarenville, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
May 14, 2006
Size: 27 mm
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Contributed by
Mardon Erbland
on 15 May, 2006 - 5:01pm
Last updated 16 February, 2007 - 9:25am
Moved
Moved from
Bumble Bees
to
species page
as per comments by John Ascher.
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Robin McLeod
, 16 February, 2007 - 9:25am
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Moved
Moved from
Western Bumble Bee
.
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Mardon Erbland
, 20 October, 2006 - 7:43am
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please move to terricola page
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John S. Ascher
, 19 October, 2006 - 9:23pm
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I'm Confused
In a prvious post to this set of images, I believe you indicated that this individual is of the species, "B. terricola terricola". Is that correct? I can not find any page on BugGuide for B. terricola, so pending the creation of such a page, I'm moving this to the Bombus genus page. Is this the proper thing to do? Thanks for your comments.
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Mardon Erbland
, 20 October, 2006 - 7:42am
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B. terricola
not occidentalis
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John S. Ascher
, 29 September, 2006 - 11:34am
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Doesn't B. terricola = B. occidentalis?
Thank you for your comment. I'm only a hobbiest but aren't B. terricola and B. occidentalis just different names for the same species? The
Natural History Museum website
states that, "
B. terricola
and
B. occidentalis
have been regarded both as conspecific (e.g. Milliron,
1971
; Poole,
1996
) and as separate species (e.g. Franklin,
1913
[but see p. 239]; Stephen,
1957
; Thorp
et al.
,
1983
; Scholl
et al
.,
1990
). The NHM groups them under a
single entry for B. terricola
. BugGuide on the other hand, lists only B. occidentalis and not B. terricola.
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Mardon Erbland
, 29 September, 2006 - 4:06pm
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Only B. terricola sensu stricto occurs in the east
aka subspecies B. terricola terricola
B. occidentalis aka B. terricola occidentalis occurs in the west
The name terricola has priority
Please move this image to a terricola page
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John S. Ascher
, 9 October, 2006 - 3:14pm
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Moving to B. occidentalis
Thanks to both Adalbert Goertz and Richard Vernier for the comments on this bee being a Bombus Queen; probably B. terricola (Kirby, 1837) a.k.a. Bombus occidentalis. I agree that my specimen certainly resembles the images on the
University of Georgia's page
for B. terricola. A
Memorial University of Newfoundland document
also lists at least three Bombus species as living here: B. borealis, B. terricola and B. sandersonii.
I'm therefore moving these images to the B. occidentalis page (a.k.a. B. terricola). I'm also changing the location information. I'm so used to photographing insects found at my home in Logy Bay that I incorrectly listed this bee as being found there. It was not. My sister-in-law found it on her pillow (it had flow in an unscreened window) in Clarenville and she called me to ask that I photograph it.
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Mardon Erbland
, 17 May, 2006 - 10:07am
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Bombus terricola?
Looks like B. terricola.
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Adalbert Goertz
, 16 May, 2006 - 11:09am
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Yes
A superb bumble-bee queen (Bombus sp.). It would be interesting to know how many species of this genus are present on Newfoundland. Probably much less, at any rate, than on the continent, even if only Canada is concerned.
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Richard Vernier
, 16 May, 2006 - 4:30am
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at least six
maybe as many as eight. I'm not sure about sandersoni or rufocinctus
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John S. Ascher
, 29 September, 2006 - 11:35am
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