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Yellowish Cuckoo Bumble bee

Bombus flavidus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 117, February 87, March 136, April 213, May 308, June 335, July 359, August 309, September 227, October 169, November 92, December 72.
United States7,296
Canada2,891
Alaska2,424
British Columbia996
Washington770
Oregon657
Ontario545
Virginia362
West Virginia342
Idaho328

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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