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Half-black Bumble Bee

Bombus vagans

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 371, February 380, March 601, April 1,177, May 2,262, June 1,060, July 798, August 722, September 759, October 621, November 389, December 347.
United States50,559
Ontario9,487
New York8,057
Pennsylvania5,672
Canada5,285
Michigan3,676
New Hampshire2,669
Alaska2,593
Massachusetts2,240
Nunavut2,142

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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