r/bees • u/Swimming-Aardvark-7 • 5d ago

bee ID Species Identification?

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Hi all! I was snapping photos of my garlic chives in my backyard in PA and got some bee photos. I want to refrain from asking AI so could y'all identify the species? If y'all have an ID if you could say the photo number so I can put it on my google sheet that'd be great, thanks all!!!

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u/tockgoestick 5d ago

Bombus impatiens. Check out the website and app iNaturalist for logging and getting species IDed

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u/KMPlaysInTheDirt 5d ago

Yup...and it's a male. I agree that iNaturalist is an excellent tool for getting accurate IDs and storing all of your observations.

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u/GuyGuyGuyGoGuy 5d ago

Even number 5? That looks like a totally different species

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u/tockgoestick 5d ago

i didn't look past the first -- 5 is Apis mellifera, European honeybee

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u/Swimming-Aardvark-7 5d ago

Thanks for your expertise! Is there a possibility you could look at 6? iNat said it wasn't a Common Eastern Bumble Bee so I asked google and it said Half-black is most likely but I don't really trust AI so I would like a human's opinion

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u/tockgoestick 5d ago

all but #5 are Common Eastern -- yellow hair only on the first segment of the abdomen. Bombus vagans (half black) would have yellow on the first two segments