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Yellow-banded Bumble Bee

Bombus terricola

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 480, February 493, March 779, April 1,526, May 2,931, June 1,374, July 1,034, August 935, September 984, October 805, November 503, December 449.
United States25,191
Ontario12,293
Michigan5,231
Canada4,843
New York4,293
Minnesota2,994
Alaska2,432
Nunavut1,943
New Hampshire1,860
Wisconsin1,775

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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Practise Yellow-banded Bumble Bee with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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