<i>Bombus balteatus</i> (IMAGE)

University of Missouri-Columbia

<i>Bombus balteatus</i>

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Long-tongued bumble bee queens of Bombus balteatus visit flowers of the alpine skypilot Polemonium viscosum. These large bees have a distinctive flight buzz, the bee version of a cargo-plane flying from flower to flower.

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Zoe Moffett, Colorado College

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