July 13, 2025

A Perplexing Bumblebee (Bombus perplexus). Native to northern North America including across Canada into the northeastern United States as well as Maryland and Virginia.

This creature fascinates me because of its wonderful coloring, that rich, warm yellow. That coloring seems it would be perfect as a stuffed Teddy Bear type toy.

The size of the queens are about .75″ and the workers are around .5″. They eat nectar and pollen from a wide variety of flowers.

This Perplexing Bumblebee is nectaring at an invasive Spotted Knapweed (Binomial soebe) which is native to Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

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