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Bumble Bee? - Bombus flavifrons - female
Copyright © 2006 Sean DeMerchant

Bumble Bee? - Bombus flavifrons - Female
Western shore of Whidbey Island to the north of Mutiny Bay atop a bluff., Island County, Washington, USA
July 27, 2006
Size: 12-18 mm?
Wing venation.

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Bumble Bee? - Bombus flavifrons - female Bumble Bee? - Bombus flavifrons - female Bumble Bee? - Bombus flavifrons - female Bumble Bee? - Bombus flavifrons - female
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Contributed by Sean DeMerchant on 28 July, 2006 - 4:28pm
Last updated 23 June, 2008 - 5:02pm

Moved
Moved from Bumble Bees.
… Beatriz Moisset, 6 May, 2008 - 7:36pm login or register to post comments

Bombus flavifrons, not sitkensis
sitkensis should have more black on the scutum and lacks the ferruginous pile on T3. If it were sitkensis, pale hairs at the abdominal apex should be visible
… John S. Ascher, 26 September, 2006 - 5:48pm login or register to post comments

Bombus sitkensis?
Maybe.
… Adalbert Goertz, 29 July, 2006 - 5:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Bombus flavirons?
I do not know. And I never got a good shot of the rear of this specimens abdomen so I may never know. I found a nearly local link that says I lack the photo to distinguish them. Olympia is 90 miles away, but then, Vancouver BC is about the same.

thanks,

Sean
… Sean DeMerchant, 31 July, 2006 - 1:15am login or register to post comments

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