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Field Guide

Gila monster climbing on a rock, with its tongue out

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Suckley's Cuckoo Bumble Bee (Bombus suckleyi)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Sawflies / Wasps / Bees / Ants (Hymenoptera) › Bees (Apidae) › Suckley's Cuckoo Bumble Bee (Bombus suckleyi)

B. suckleyi is an obligate social parasite of other bumble bee species, primarily B. occidentalis. Unlike other bumble bees, cuckoo bees will enter and take con...


American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Sawflies / Wasps / Bees / Ants (Hymenoptera) › Bees (Apidae) › American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus)

Bombus pensylvanicus is a large bumblebee that can be found nesting above-ground from early spring through late fall. Though it has only one known historic obse...


Morrison's Bumble Bee (Bombus morrisoni)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Sawflies / Wasps / Bees / Ants (Hymenoptera) › Bees (Apidae) › Morrison's Bumble Bee (Bombus morrisoni)

Bombus morrisoni is a large bee known throughout much of the intermountain west and desert southwest, where it exists largely at the edge of bumble bee habitat ...


Western Bumble Bee (Bombus occidentalis)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Sawflies / Wasps / Bees / Ants (Hymenoptera) › Bees (Apidae) › Western Bumble Bee (Bombus occidentalis)

Bombus occidentalis is seen in flight from early spring into early fall, often with distinctive white hair covering the end of the abdomen. Though it is declini...


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