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Lemon Cuckoo Bumble Bee

Bombus citrinus

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28 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 228, February 234, March 370, April 724, May 1,390, June 652, July 491, August 559, September 467, October 382, November 239, December 213.
United States13,969
Canada6,540
Ontario5,831
New York2,137
Minnesota1,630
Wisconsin1,263
Illinois804
Michigan690
Ohio541
New Jersey504

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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Practise Lemon Cuckoo 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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