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Bombus impatiens, the common eastern bumblebee, is the most commonly encountered bumblebee across much of eastern North America. [3] They can be found in the Eastern temperate forest region of the eastern United States , southern Canada , and the eastern Great Plains . [ 4 ]
The two-spotted bumble bee (Bombus bimaculatus) is a species of social bumble bee found in the eastern half of the United States and the adjacent south-eastern part of Canada. In older literature this bee is often referred to as Bremus bimaculatus , Bremus being a synonym for Bombus . [ 3 ]
The bee lives for about two weeks before dying. The fly then pupates and spends the winter inside the bee, fully developed, before it emerges the following year. Bombus pensylvanicus is host to one "cuckoo" bumble bee species, B. variabilis. [7] Hibernating queen bumble bees are parasitized by a nematode worm, Sphaerularia bombi. This parasite ...
The bumble bee population has declined sharply in the southern Plains states, including Mississippi. ... The agency included Eastern hellbenders who live in Missouri on the Endangered Species List ...
The list presented here is a checklist of global bumblebee [1] species (Tribe Bombini) based on the Bombus phylogeny presented by Cameron et al (2007) [2] and grouped by subgenus following the revision of Williams et al (2008). [3]
A bumblebee (or bumble bee, bumble-bee, or humble-bee) is any of over 250 species in the genus Bombus, part of Apidae, one of the bee families. This genus is the only extant group in the tribe Bombini, though a few extinct related genera (e.g., Calyptapis) are known from fossils.
When scientists accidentally submerged a specific type of hibernating bumblebee in water, they made a remarkable discovery: Queen common eastern bumblebees can survive underwater for up to a week ...
Eastern tiger swallowtail (state butterfly) Papilio glaucus: 1994 [51] South Dakota: European honey bee: Apis mellifera: 1978 [52] Tennessee: Common eastern firefly (state insect) Photinus pyralis: 1975 [53] 7-spotted ladybug (state insect) Coccinella septempunctata: 1975 [53] European honey bee (state agricultural insect) Apis mellifera: 1990 ...