**Images taken from the wonderful https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/albums, https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/albums. Favourite flowers include, milkweeds, thistles, sunflowers, goldenrod, asters and sumac. One to three stripes of yellow appear on its abdominal segments. Range: Ontario to Florida, west to Texas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia. The body lengths are in millimetres and do not include the antennae. pensylvanicus Range: Quebec, Ontario, Maryland south to Florida, west to Minnesota, S. Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, Mexico. Bombus pensylvanicus . One to three stripes of yellow appear on its abdominal segments. Long-tongued, hair is short and even.. Long tongued species, hair is short and even. Worker 14 - 18 mm. In the west the males and workers are usually seen a month later than these dates which are for the eastern population. Range: Alaska to California, Arizona, New Mexico east to Wisconsin, Mexico. There are over 255 species of bumblebees, according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), so bumblebees can be many sizes. Uncommon in the east. Another species from the eastern United States, which was once found from Canada to North Carolina, also seems to have disappeared in the past few years. Favourite flowers include thistles, Asters, dandelions, salvias, sunflowers, lupins, sweet clover and rabbit bush. Body length in mm queen 22 -26, worker 12 - 22, male 15 - 20.
Only the fertile queens that mated the previous year survive and thus bumblebee nests are begun anew each year. Note: sometimes just called Bombus auricomus.
Photo by Dr. David Inouye, University of Maryland.
Its range, known at one time to span from southwest Oregon to northwest California, was quite restricted, but it has not been found despite intensive searches during the past few summers. Orig. Queens are seen from mid March, workers from mid April and males from June. Bumblebees are also a conservation issue, as they are sometimes threatened by human activities such as habitat fragmentation, pesticide use, disease transmission, and loss of floral resources. They do have smooth stingers and can use them repeatedly, but they are not aggressive and are unlikely to take notice of people and pets that aren't attacking them or their nest. Bombus flavifrons worker on a lupine flower, carrying a small load of orange pollen. Found in open farmland and fields. Bumblebees visit flowers for the nectar and pollen upon which they feed, and once the eggs they lay have hatched, they use those plant resources to feed larval worker bees. They have hairs all over their yellow and black bodies. ** Another reason bumble bees are important pollinators is their behavior of buzzing, or sonicating, flowers that require this behavior for pollination. If a bee is having a good day, you will be able to see the full baskets, overflowing with orange or yellow pollen. Short - medium tongued. Home - Invertebrates - US Forest Service, FM-RM-VE ** Homework Answers - Bumblebees nest in fiberglass insulation. A few of the short-tongued species, however, manage to feed on long-tube flowers by “nectar robbing”. Males gather around the nest entrance waiting for the new queens to emerge for mating. This is an uncommon species. Queens and workers seen from April, males from August.
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- Looks like a bumblebee - Other bees1, 2. Nests on the surface, but occasionally underground. Range: Quebec, Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, south to Florida, west to British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, northern California. Large: Queen 21 - 25 mm. NOTE: Ants, Bees, & Wasps are part of the Hymenoptera order because they share many similarities. Males will chase anything that moves when searching for mates. The tongue lengths are given when known as this will help in ID as a short tongued bee cannot reach the nectar of a long corolla flower unless it is nectar robbing, and a long tongued bee can forage from any flower, but will usually show a preference for complicated or long corolla flowers. Long tongued species, hair is short and even. As one of the few species of commercially developed pollinators, a few species of bumblebees have been shipped to a variety of places around the world where they are not native but are wanted for greenhouse pollination. They typically forage outside of the greenhouses as well. Syn: Bombus pennsylvanicus - spelling. Size . And the behaviour page. Body length in mm, queen 25 - 27, worker 15 - 19, male 22 - 25. In spring, queens emerge from underground where they have spent the winter, and look for a nest site, often found underground in an old mouse nest or rodent burrow.
The body lengths are in millimetres and do not include the antennae. Found in open farmland, parks, gardens, wetlands. Nests underground. Nests are small and on the surface or underground. Range: New Jersey down to Florida, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado and New Mexico. Franklin’s bumblebee (Bombus franklini) is (or was) an endemic species with the most restricted geographic range of any bumblebee in North America and possibly the world.
Hair short and velvety. Capability, Shape, Texture/Pattern, Benefits, Dangers. Comb: Apis pensylvanicus De Geer, 1773.
The bumblebee queen produces a few generations of workers during the summer, which then take over the task of collecting nectar and pollen and help rear the final generation of the colony, queens for the next summer, and males to mate with them. Favourite flowers include, balsam roots, ceanothus, dandelions, Gypsophila, lupins, thistles, sunflowers and currants.
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