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Common Eastern Bumble Bee

Bombus impatiens

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 3,253, February 3,337, March 5,280, April 10,336, May 19,858, June 9,307, July 7,006, August 6,336, September 6,717, October 5,455, November 3,411, December 3,043.
United States238,196
Canada49,377
Ontario29,016
New York23,389
Massachusetts21,320
Minnesota16,339
Illinois16,166
Ohio16,160
Wisconsin12,445
Pennsylvania12,130

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

  • CuteAdded by a member
  • 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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