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Lemon Cuckoo Bumble Bee, lateral - Bombus citrinus - female
Copyright © 2011 MJ Hatfield

Lemon Cuckoo Bumble Bee, lateral - Bombus citrinus - Female
Plymouth Rock, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
July 6, 2011
Size: 2+ cm
I'd like to release this one if someone can ID it.
Perhaps female (won't hold still)
Thanks so much.

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Lemon Cuckoo Bumble Bee, lateral - Bombus citrinus - female Lemon Cuckoo Bumble Bee, dorsal - Bombus citrinus Lemon Cuckoo Bumble Bee, head & thorax - Bombus citrinus
Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 10 July, 2011 - 10:41am
Last updated 30 March, 2015 - 8:19am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 10 July, 2011 - 10:50am

Bombus citrinus
female
… John S. Ascher, 10 July, 2011 - 10:43am

 
Thank you much.
I'd think I'd know citrinus by now as there seems to be a lot of them at both of my main collection locations.
… MJ Hatfield, 10 July, 2011 - 10:54am

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