Photo #7 millimeter scale
On Arctostaphylos pumila 2.5 miles from shore at Marina on the Monterey Bay
Netted and chilled to 5°C for photos. Released within 20 minutes on same manzanita.
This worker was one of three western bumblebees found along Butte Creek in the BLM Forks of the Butte recreation area, Forest Ranch, Butte County. Foraging on clematis.
This worker was one of three western bumblebees found along Butte Creek in the BLM Forks of the Butte recreation area. The grey/buff tail doesn’t show up very well in the photos. Foraging on woolly mullein.
This large gyne (new queen?) was one of three western bumblebees found along Butte Creek in BLM Forks of the Butte recreation area, Butte County, CA. She was foraging on clematis.
Either this or B. insularis. On gard3n Rudbeckia glausecens, from seed collected 2 miles away.
Saw two workers in this meadow/marsh, this worker was hovering and looking around for something in the grass saw me and landed on me. Began probing my hand and later my pants.
Found dead on the Altadena Crest Trail after a day of very high temperatures.
Located at the Orange Heights proposed development site.
Foraging in the wet margins of the creek for minerals etc.?
Two bumble bees seen fighting over a thimbleberry flower. The B. occidentalis was first at the flower, then a B. mixtus threw it off. The occidentalis came back but could not dislodge the mixtus, so it left.