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I am in Vermont and see bumblebees everywhere... am I mixing up a common species with this one?

• moron4hire 5y ago
  Carpenter bees look very similar to bumblebees, but are actually larger, not as hairy, and don't form hives. They binary maters!
  • tclancy 5y ago
    And, contrary to their name, are not good with wood. Plus they attract woodpeckers. Carpenter bees at least make attractive, perfectly round holes. The woodpeckers who follow are not quite as neat.
• oingodoingo 5y ago
  you might be seeing feral bees or carpenter bees, those are the two I commonly hear misidentified as bumblebees
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• spqr0a1 5y ago
  There are dozens of bumblebee species in Vermont, but Bombus impatiens is particularly common. That's much more likely than B. pensylvanicus mentioned in the article.
  • liquidise 5y ago
    Very helpful. I looked up the 2 species and the American Bumblebee[2] is noted as having an increasingly southern habitat, with borders denoting their former range/habitat. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_impatiens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_impatiens [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_pensylvanicus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_pensylvanicus
• omerhj 5y ago
  Here's a list of all the bumblebee species that are or have been present in Vermont: https://val.vtecostudies.org/projects/bumble-bee-atlas/species/ https://val.vtecostudies.org/projects/bumble-bee-atlas/speci...