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Sand-coloured Carder Bumble Bee

Bombus veteranus

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 305, February 225, March 353, April 555, May 801, June 873, July 934, August 803, September 590, October 440, November 241, December 188.
United States6,309
Alaska6,309
Russia358
Finland93
Novosibirsk Oblast67
Arkhangelsk Oblast44
Uusimaa28
Altai Krai27
Tomsk Oblast25
Tver Oblast23

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

Sources

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