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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps » Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Honey, Bumble, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Bumble Bees (Bombini) » Bumble Bees (Bombus) » Subgenus Pyrobombus (Bombus Subgenus Pyrobombus) » Confusing Bumble Bee (Bombus perplexus)

Species Bombus perplexus - Confusing Bumble Bee

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Internet References
Bee ID - Bombus perplexus - female Bombus affinis? or griseocollis? - Bombus - female Fuzzy Yellow Bee - Bombus perplexus - female Bumble Bee - Bombus perplexus - male Another Bombus - Bombus perplexus - male Bumble Bee - Bombus perplexus - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees)
Family Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)
Subfamily Apinae (Honey, Bumble, and Digger Bees)
Tribe Bombini (Bumble Bees)
Genus Bombus (Bumble Bees)
No Taxon (Subgenus Pyrobombus)
Species perplexus (Confusing Bumble Bee)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Bombus hudsonicus
Explanation of Names
the color variants of this bee are easily confused with other species
Size
queen: body length 17-21 mm
male: 13-14 mm
worker: 12-14 mm
Identification
see detailed description of queen, male, worker at discoverlife.org
Range
Alaska to Maine, south to Georgia

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Season
April to September
Internet References
26 pinned adult images plus detailed description of queen, worker, male, distribution, seasonality, flower records (discoverlife.org)
common name reference; PDF doc (Committee on Common Names of Insects, Entomological Society of America)
links to photos of male genitalia (Natural History Museum, UK)
Discover Life
Contributed by Matthew Roth on 23 September, 2006 - 4:49pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod, John S. Ascher
Last updated 16 September, 2008 - 4:45pm

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