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Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens)
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Coleopteraman
Bombus bimaculatus? -
Bombus impatiens
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Cherokee, Crawford County, Kansas, USA
April 5, 2010
She is nesting in our back lot and forages on the creeping charlie.
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on 5 April, 2010 - 8:49pm
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John S. Ascher
, 5 April, 2010 - 8:55pm
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Bombus impatiens
The second abdominal segment has no yellow hairs and the top of the thorax does not have a black spot (bimaculatus would have yellow on the second segment and a black spot on top of the thorax)
see comparison:
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Vespula Vulgaris
, 5 April, 2010 - 8:52pm
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impatiens
T2 is all black
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John S. Ascher
, 5 April, 2010 - 8:51pm
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