Bombus mixtus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Apidae
- Genus
- Bombus
- Species
- Bombus mixtus
- Scientific Name
- Bombus mixtus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Bombus mixtus
Bombus mixtus is a species of bumblebee. It is native to western North America, where it occurs in western Canada and the United States. It is also disjunct in the Great Lakes region. It is known commonly as the fuzzy-horned bumblebee, tricoloured bumblebee, orange-belted bumblebee, and mixed bumblebee.
This bee lives in mountain habitat, and taiga and tundra habitat in northern areas. It lives in open, grassy habitat, chaparral, shrublands, and meadows. It feeds at the flowers of ceanothus, fireweed, coyote mints, penstemons, phacelias, rhododendrons, and groundsels. It nests underground or on the surface.
...Bombus mixtus in languages:
- English
- Fuzzy-Horned Bumble Bee
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Bombus abnormis
- Bombus ardens
- Bombus beaticola
- Bombus bifarius
- Bombus bimaculatus
- Bombus biroi
- Bombus brodmannicus
- Bombus caliginosus
- Bombus centralis
- Bombus cingulatus
- Bombus cockerelli
- Bombus ephippiatus
- Bombus flavescens
- Bombus flavifrons
- Bombus frigidus
- Bombus glacialis
- Bombus haematurus
- Bombus huntii
- Bombus hypnorum
- Bombus impatiens
- Bombus infirmus
- Bombus johanseni
- Bombus jonellus
- Bombus lapponicus
- Bombus lemniscatus
- Bombus lepidus
- Bombus luteipes
- Bombus melanopygus
- Bombus mirus
- Bombus mixtus
- Bombus modestus
- Bombus monticola
- Bombus oceanicus
- Bombus parthenius
- Bombus perplexus
- Bombus picipes
- Bombus pratorum
- Bombus pressus
- Bombus pyrenaeus
- Bombus rotundiceps
- Bombus sandersoni
- Bombus sitkensis
- Bombus sonani
- Bombus subtypicus
- Bombus sylvicola
- Bombus ternarius
- Bombus vagans
- Bombus vandykei
- Bombus vosnesenskii
- Bombus wilmattae































































































































































