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Confusing Bumble Bee - Bombus flavidus
Copyright © 2009 Charles Wilder

Confusing Bumble Bee - Bombus flavidus
Great Smoky Mountains National Park - Appalachian Trail, Swain County, North Carolina, USA
July 19, 2006
Found on Cutleaf Coneflower - Rudebeckia lanciniata.

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Contributed by Charles Wilder on 14 March, 2009 - 1:34pm
Last updated 23 May, 2021 - 8:25am

Moved
Moved from Confusing Bumble Bee.
… John S. Ascher, 17 June, 2009 - 11:57am

I still think this is Bombus
I still think this is Bombus fernaldae.
… Liz Day, 16 June, 2009 - 11:08pm

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