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Buff-tailed Bumble Bee

Bombus terrestris

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 16,750, February 12,371, March 19,383, April 30,494, May 43,967, June 47,943, July 51,303, August 44,120, September 32,392, October 24,178, November 13,212, December 10,326.
United States346,444
Alaska346,440
United Kingdom6,882
England5,999
New Zealand5,632
Chile1,861
Canterbury Region1,759
Germany1,350
Portugal1,230
Spain1,088

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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