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Field Cuckoo Bumble bee

Bombus campestris

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 791, February 584, March 915, April 1,439, May 2,076, June 2,263, July 2,422, August 2,083, September 1,529, October 1,141, November 624, December 487.
United States16,368
Alaska16,354
Russia781
Austria375
Germany368
Denmark226
Steiermark186
Bayern168
Moscow Oblast147
Poland105

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

Remember the name next time.

Practise Field Cuckoo Bumble bee with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.