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Bumble Bee With Orange Tip on Butt - Bombus pensylvanicus - male
Copyright © 2011 John Hartgerink

Bumble Bee With Orange Tip on Butt - Bombus pensylvanicus - Male
Baton Rouge - BREC Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
September 11, 2011
Bumble Bee on Iron Weed.
See slimmer than some bumble bees.

John

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Contributed by John Hartgerink on 12 September, 2011 - 7:19am
Last updated 14 November, 2011 - 5:11pm

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Bombus pensylvanicus
male
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