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Bombus sitkensis Nylander, 1848 Bombus oregonensis Cresson, 1878; Bombus mixtuosus Ashmead, 1902
Life
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apoidea
Apidae
Bombus
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Williams, Paul H., Robbin W. Thorp, Leif L. Richardson, and Sheila R. Colla. Bumble Bees of North America: An Identification Guide. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wpzr9.
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Extracted from Jonathan Koch, James Strange, Paul Williams.2012. Bumble Bees of the Western United States. A product of the U.S. Forest Service and the Pollinator Partnership with funding from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
Status: Common Select food plant genera: Ebilobium, Lupinus, Rubus, Rosa, Vicia, Rhododendron Tongue Length: Medium Distribution: Almost exclusive to Pacific coastline in the U.S. except for populations found in the Sawtooth wilderness of northern Idaho Can be confused with B. flavifrons, B. mixtus, and B. melanopygus. Females (queens and workers, colors refer to hair) Thorax anterior to the wing bases black and yellow intermixed (clouded), scutellum black, sometimes with yellow/white intermixed laterally, T1-2 yellow, T3 black, T4-5 with pale hairs, face square. Mid leg basitarsus with the distal posterior corner rounded. Cheek length longer than broad. Hair of the face and top of head with black and yellow intermixed, ocelli large and at supraorbital line. On the side of the thorax, the lower anterior surface with black and yellow intermixed (cloudy). Corbicular fringes long and with yellowish-red hairs. Hair length medium and uneven.
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