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How to determine this/a bumblebee

13 years ago

I saw this bumblebee in my garden. First I thought it was not a bumblebee, because it is about 3ÃÂ½ cm long and I thought this was to long. But there are species up to 3.8 cm long. So I suppose it is a bumblebee. But how do I determine which one? Until now I could not find a site for the determination of the species.

There is conflicting information on the web. Most sites think that a bumblebee will die, just as a honey bee, when stinging a human. Only two sites had it correct that they could sting multiple times.

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rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
13 years ago
Visit Bumblebee.org for some great visuals to aid identification.

Just out of curiosity, I searched around about their stings and couldn't find a single one that said that bumbles die after stinging. Can't imagine wbere you found information that claimed otherwise! Scary, huh?
CecilWesterhof
Original Author
13 years ago
I could not find them any-more at first also. Turns out that the way you phrase your question is very important. For example: the first query I did now returned bumblebee.org and yesterday it did not turn up in my queries.

The only site I can find at the moment: http://a-z-animals.com/animals/bumble-bee/, but yesterday there where a few others also
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