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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 Cullumanobombus (Bombus Subgenus Cullumanobombus) » Brown-belted Bumble Bee (Bombus griseocollis)
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Bombus affinis worker? - Bombus griseocollis
Copyright © 2019 Ellen Rathbone

Bombus affinis worker? - Bombus griseocollis
Rockford, winnebago County, Illinois, USA
July 31, 2019
She would NOT hold still and was moving fast. I snapped what I could, but they are not great, and are totally not of the back of the abdomen. But the face seems pointy, rather than blunt (Bumble Bees of the Eastern Unites States by Colla, Richardson and Williams), but I admit it is a difficult call because it it blurry. The side view with the rusty patch suggests worker to me since yellow does not go around all sides, but I am not an expert. It may be that I WANT it to be affis, but in truth it is griseocollis.

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Contributed by Ellen Rathbone on 1 August, 2019 - 4:14pm
Last updated 14 August, 2019 - 3:43am

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