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Sitka bumble bee

Bombus sitkensis

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Apidae

Bombus sitkensis, the Sitka bumblebee, is a species of bumblebee common in western North America from Alaska to California. Description The Sitka bumblebee has an oblong head with a medium-length proboscis. The females (queens and workers) have black and yellow hairs intermixed on the face and forward part of the thorax and a black patch in the middle of the thorax, while their sides are yellowish.

Distribution

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