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Tundra Bumble Bee

Bombus hyperboreus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 37, February 27, March 42, April 66, May 96, June 104, July 112, August 96, September 71, October 53, November 29, December 23.
United States755
Alaska755
Canada223
Nunavut150
Northwest Territories44
Yukon28
Sweden8
Norrbottens län8
Russia8
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug3

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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