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Great Yellow Bumble Bee

Bombus distinguendus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 321, February 237, March 371, April 584, May 842, June 918, July 982, August 845, September 620, October 463, November 253, December 198.
United States6,634
Alaska6,632
Russia236
Finland70
Novosibirsk Oblast48
Kirov Oblast36
United Kingdom33
Scotland33
Tomsk Oblast28
Uusimaa22

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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