Confirm Bombus griseocollis- Calhoun County Fl - Bombus impatiens

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… John S. Ascher, 7 December, 2013 - 10:32pm

If you click on Your Images at the upper right...

...you can view all your posts. While there's no need to record it, note that your post is numbered at the upper left hand corner of each photo. This makes it easy for you to tell others where your post is, with a clickable link like so:

Here's the format for the link. Note that there are no spaces and that XXXX represents the number of the photo.

[thumb:XXXX]

For more info like this, check the Help tab, which is sort of a mini manual for the site.

… Ron Hemberger, 7 December, 2013 - 6:59pm

Oh, *that's* how you do the t

Oh, *that's* how you do the thumbnails! I'd been copy-pasting the HTML from the raw page source. Good to know there's a much less kludgy way to do it!

… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 7 December, 2013 - 7:00pm

You are really quick and in more ways than one!

Format for clickable URL link

[url]paste it in here without spaces [/ -note slash to end it- url]

Italics

[i] [/ slash to end it i]

Bold is with a b

That's about the extent of my very shallow knowledge of suchlike.

… Ron Hemberger, 7 December, 2013 - 7:03pm

Hard to say - they look more

Hard to say - they look more like Bombus impatiens to me (since only the first abdominal tergite is yellow), but I can't see the center of the second tergite on the abdomen where griseocollis would have a potential brown center. Do you have any pictures looking straight down at the abdomen of the bee?

I do feel like I'm seeing a lot of yellow on the head of the bigger bee at the bottom of the image, which is more consistent with the males of both impatiens and griseocollis. Queens and workers of griseocollis do sometimes have cloudy (yellowish) heads, so this may point towards griseocollis instead.

In terms of the technical side - if you aren't automatically subscribed to comments from your posts (in which case you get emails), you can click "subscribe" under the image (next to "tag" and "add comment"), and that should let you know when additional comments occur or when the image is moved.

Hope that helps!

… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 7 December, 2013 - 6:06pm