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Bombus melanopygus
This small, tri-colored bee was the most common bee we saw in Alaska. It has a rufous back-half of the abdomen. The front half is gray. The thorax is gray and black.
Fireweed along road outside mixed forest.
Spotted on Jul 15, 2013
Submitted on Aug 4, 2013
5 Comments
I changed my ID, Cindy. Thank you... :) KP
Hi Karen, I just received an ID for this one. Take a look and see if it's the same one :)
Could it be a http://bugguide.net/node/view/498732
Fernald's Cuckoo Bumble Bee
Here's my spotting. Let me know if I've missed the ID on mine. :)
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/356...
Very pretty close-ups of the fluffly bee :-)
Could it be some sort of carpenter bee, BTW?
I love how fuzzy bees are Cindy :-)