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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Bumble Bees (Bombini) » Bumble Bees (Bombus) » Subgenus Bombias (Bombus Subgenus Bombias) » Nevada Bumble Bee (Bombus nevadensis)
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Bumble Bee or mimic? - Bombus nevadensis - male
Copyright © 2015 Jeremy Gatten

Bumble Bee or mimic? - Bombus nevadensis - Male
Edgewood, BC, British Columbia, Canada
July 16, 2015
I believe I thought this was a carpenter bee when I photographed it because it wasn't acting like a bumble bee. Now I see that carpenter bees have hairless abdomens, so I don't know what to think. I appreciate any expertise that can be lent to this one!
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Contributed by Jeremy Gatten on 11 December, 2015 - 5:48pm
Last updated 20 May, 2016 - 8:26am

Moved
Moved from Bumble Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 20 May, 2016 - 8:26am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 20 December, 2015 - 6:11pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… hg, 19 December, 2015 - 10:56am login or register to post comments

Bombus nevadensis male?
Bombus nevadensis male?



(also, I don't think any of the Xylocopa carpenter bees get up into the WA/BC area; X. californica and X. tabaniformis stop in OR)
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 11 December, 2015 - 7:15pm login or register to post comments

 
could be
B. rufocinctus is the other species to consider
… John S. Ascher, 15 December, 2015 - 7:27am login or register to post comments

 
True... I feel like the commo
True... I feel like the common name of rufocinctus is incorrect, it should be renamed "The Great Imitator"!
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 15 December, 2015 - 2:15pm login or register to post comments

 
That seems likely!
I was looking into male bumble bees earlier today, so that might be it. I have seen Bombus nevadensis in the area, but not at the site I saw the above individual.

Knowing what it is now, it is interesting to note that they exhibit territorial behaviour. I see now that this has been researched - see here if you're interested: http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/z91-090
… Jeremy Gatten, 11 December, 2015 - 8:08pm login or register to post comments

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