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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 Pyrobombus (Bombus Subgenus Pyrobombus) » Hunt's Bumble Bee (Bombus huntii)
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Bombus huntii
Copyright © 2017 Matt Young

Bombus huntii
Boulder/Walden Ponds, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
May 22, 2017
I think it is a Bombus huntii, but (1) he (she?) is carrying something down by the tail -- a blob of pollen? And (2) what are the 3 little ovoids by the shoulder? Mites? I hope not.
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Contributed by Matt Young on 25 May, 2017 - 5:57pm

Moved
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… John S. Ascher, 25 May, 2017 - 6:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Worker bee?
I took this photograph on May 22 in Boulder, Colorado. We had had snow and freezing temperatures as recently as May 19. I read a small handful of articles, but I cannot find any information regarding the approximate date that the queen might emerge in the spring. Thus, the question, is this bee most probably a worker bee, or might it be an overwintered queen?
… Matt Young, 27 May, 2017 - 1:05pm login or register to post comments

1) yes, in the corbicula as usual
2) mites
… John S. Ascher, 25 May, 2017 - 5:59pm login or register to post comments

 
Many thanks ...
... I shall look up corbicula right away!
… Matt Young, 25 May, 2017 - 6:04pm login or register to post comments

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