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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) » mixtus or sitkensis (Bombus mixtus or sitkensis)
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Bombus flavifrons or mixtus? - Bombus
Copyright © 2014 John Hamil

Bombus flavifrons or mixtus? - Bombus
Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
May 1, 2014

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Contributed by John Hamil on 4 May, 2014 - 6:37pm
Last updated 18 March, 2015 - 8:21pm

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Pyrobombus.
… John S. Ascher, 18 March, 2015 - 8:21pm login or register to post comments

i suspect it's mixtus
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… John S. Ascher, 10 October, 2014 - 9:08pm login or register to post comments

Glad I'm not the only one trying to figure these out
We live just a few miles from each other! I keep seeing these that are mixtus / flavifrons / sitkensis.
… johnnotis, 8 May, 2014 - 7:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Revealing my taxonomic hubris
Glad to find someone with a similar quest and I'm impressed to see there are huntii and nevadensis so close by. I'm just upstream from Leach Gardens on the creek so I wind up being several degrees cooler than the rest of Portland. I spent last year with "Bumble Bees of the Western United States" and thought I was making accurate ID's of five different species I found. I'm redoing that work now. John Ascher deserves far more praise for his work and his patience.

Have you considered submitting to Bumble Bee Watch? I keep looking at their map to see what other people are finding. Hopefully it will get better as the year progresses.
… John Hamil, 10 May, 2014 - 1:28pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 4 May, 2014 - 7:03pm login or register to post comments

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