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Black-and-gold Bumble Bee

Bombus auricomus

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Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.

United States	23,330
Canada	7,571
Ontario	7,560
Minnesota	3,946
Michigan	3,438
Illinois	2,946
Wisconsin	1,675
Missouri	1,413
Iowa	616
Ohio	576

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

EusocialLives in colonies with division of labor and cooperative brood careFrom its classification

Physical

ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

StingingCan deliver a painful stingFrom its classification

Group and habits

Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Insects · Insecta
Order	Ants, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
Family	Honey Bees, Bumble Bees, and Allies · Apidae
Genus	Bumble Bees · Bombus

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

Remember the name next time.

Practise Black-and-gold Bumble Bee with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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