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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 Bombus (Bombus Subgenus Bombus ) » Yellow-banded Bumble Bee (Bombus terricola)

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Copyright © 2006 Joanne Bovee

Bumblebee with eggs on it's back? - Bombus terricola

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Alberta, Canada
April 26, 2006
Size: bumblebee sized

I saw my first bumblebee of the year yesterday..... it was high in a tree - this photo is taken with a zoom lens. I didn't notice till I got home that this bee seems to have some kind of eggs on it's back? Does anyone know what these could be?
Joanne

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Bumblebee with eggs on it's back? - Bombus terricola

Bumblebee with eggs on it's back? - Bombus terricola

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Contributed by Joanne Bovee on 27 April, 2006 - 10:11am
Last updated 6 December, 2009 - 4:50pm

Moved

Moved from Subgenus Bombus .

… John S. Ascher, 6 December, 2009 - 4:50pm

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Moved

Moved from Bumble Bees.

… Ted Kropiewnicki, 14 February, 2009 - 7:53pm

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Bombus (Bombus)

likely occidentalis

not neoboreus

… John S. Ascher, 19 October, 2006 - 9:20pm

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Bombus neoboreus?

Looks like B. neoboreus.

… Adalbert Goertz, 1 June, 2006 - 10:48pm

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The tree...

Is a willow (genus Salix)...

Patrick Alexander
http://boechera.nmsu.edu/~paalexan/

… Patrick Alexander, 27 April, 2006 - 9:23pm

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thanks!

Ha ha - well at least I know about the tree! (which I didn't know about either!)
:-)
Joanne

… Joanne Bovee, 27 April, 2006 - 9:52pm

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Mites

maybe. Check out

.

… Jeff Hollenbeck, 27 April, 2006 - 10:18am

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Aha!

Well that sure is similar! I wish it had not been way up in the tree and that I could use my macro lens!
A friend found this website - here they call them bumblebee mites. There sure isn't much on them on the internet that I can find though! Sure looked like eggs to me - but they're actually bugs! Ew!
Thanks - very interesting!!
Joanne

… Joanne Bovee, 27 April, 2006 - 9:59pm

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