The Bumblebee
David R. Brooks and Susan Caughlan
Dr. David R. Brooks of Drexel University
and Susan Caughlan captured the accompanying images
of bumblebees visiting flowers in rural Pennsylvania.
The single dark spot on the back of
the thorax of the bee in Fig. 2 suggests that these
specimens are representatives of the genus Bombus. (See
the identification guide here).
Worker bumblebees are equipped with
a stinger, but they rarely use it against curious people.
As David and Susan discovered, this makes the bumblebee
a nice subject for close up photography.
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