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Photo#855193
A Big Black Bug which was hovering over flowers - Bombus

A Big Black Bug which was hovering over flowers - Bombus
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA
October 13, 2013
Size: 3cm
this bug had a scary bloody tongue. it was too fast, and looked as if it was eating the flowers.

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Moved from Yellow-faced Bumble Bee.

The nearly identical Bombus caliginosus also appears in this area, and can rarely be told apart by photographs; as a result, I've moved the image to this either/or species page. For info on this topic, look here or here and note that B. caliginosus has yellow hairs on sternite 4, shown in this specimen but very difficult to tell in live images:



Sorry to bump you back to subgenus!

(also edited the image to fix location data)

 
Thanks Kelsey
Thanks for this correction and corrections elsewhere on other Bombus images!

 
No problemo! Glad to help :^
No problemo! Glad to help :^)

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Moved from Halictini.

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