Bombus ternarius: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Apidae
- Genus
- Bombus
- Species
- Bombus ternarius
- Scientific Name
- Bombus ternarius
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Bombus ternarius
Bombus ternarius, commonly known as the orange-belted bumblebee or tricolored bumblebee, is a yellow, orange and black bumblebee. It is a ground-nesting social insect whose colony cycle lasts only one season, common throughout the northeastern United States and much of Canada. The orange-belted bumblebee forages on Rubus, goldenrods, Vaccinium, and milkweeds found throughout the colony's range. Like many other members of the genus, Bombus ternarius exhibits complex social structure with a reproductive queen caste and a multitude of sister workers with labor such as foraging, nursing, and nest maintenance divided among the subordinates.
...Bombus ternarius in languages:
- English
- Tricolored Bumble Bee
- English
- Orange-belted Bumblebee
- English
- Tricoloured Bumble Bee
- French
- bourdon tricolore
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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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
Top Observation Places
- Saint Cloud
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- Regina
- Moncton
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- Saint-Laurent
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- Minneapolis
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- Calgary
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- Greater Sudbury
- Duluth
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- Winnipeg
- Ottawa
- Gatineau
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