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Ashton's Cuckoo Bumble Bee

Bombus ashtoni

319 observations in the source records

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What the records say

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 44, February 45, March 71, April 140, May 268, June 126, July 95, August 86, September 90, October 74, November 46, December 41.
United States2,769
Canada2,347
Ontario1,125
Michigan640
New York492
Alaska482
Nunavut334
Minnesota310
Manitoba241
Wisconsin233

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

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilyHoney Bees, Bumble Bees, and Allies · Apidae
GenusBumble Bees · Bombus

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