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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 Pyrobombus (Bombus Subgenus Pyrobombus) » Fuzzy-horned Bumble Bee (Bombus mixtus)
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Bombus (?) - Bombus mixtus - female
Copyright © 2012 sofiar

Bombus (?) - Bombus mixtus - Female
Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
July 2, 2012
Finally able to get a better photo of one of the two smaller Bombus like bees I am seeing here. Bombus? Is it pyrobombus as per other recent id? Or...? Thanks in advance

Unfortunately, this time I was able to get the photo because she was not happy -- hopefully dying of age not of sickness. She spent a lot of time sticking her tongue out and cleaning it which seemed so sad and painful to me. I photographed her and then gently placed her back into the bed of Eriophyllum lanatum ("Oregon Sunshine"). Yeah, I am not good with the facts of life and death, not good at all....

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Bombus (?) - Bombus mixtus - female Bombus (?) - Bombus mixtus - female
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Contributed by sofiar on 2 July, 2012 - 10:52am
Last updated 5 July, 2012 - 9:17pm

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thanks.
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