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Bombus pensylvanicus (possibly?)
Large black bee (Bumble Bee - Possibly Apidae)
taking pollen from (cone) echinacea flowers
From the Ohio State Park site "Bumble Bees" When we think of bees, we usually picture the fat and fuzzy bumble bee, with its cheerful yellow stripes and familiar buzz. Bumble bees live in colonies of about 200 bees. When springtime comes, the queen bee’s job is to lay hundreds of eggs, including a few future daughter queens and kings, and many worker bees
Spotted on Jun 23, 2011
Submitted on Jul 18, 2011
3 Comments
No problem!
Shea thanks for that - I have added two more views of this spotting taken at the same time.
Bumblebee. But there are 250 different species of bumblebee and it would be very hard to identify!