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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) » Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens)
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Cuckoo Bumble Bee? - Bombus impatiens
Copyright © 2017 Donald R. Lemieux

Cuckoo Bumble Bee? - Bombus impatiens
Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine, USA
October 3, 2017
Size: About 3/4"
Only one of these bees we have seen. It was quite tolerant of our presence, enabling us to manipulate for photos the aster it was foraging on.

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Contributed by Maine2014 on 4 October, 2017 - 9:59pm
Last updated 5 October, 2017 - 5:15am

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Unidentified Bumble Bee
Two Bumble Bee researchers just reviewed our photos. They identified it as an odd colored male Bombus perplexus (Perplexing Bumble Bee).
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