Bumble Bees
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 Gallery: Zach's Bee Photos [(c) Zachary Huang], for Prints   Album: Bees on Flowers   
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A bumble bee foraging on a five-finger, or sulphur cinquefoil (Potentilla recta, Rosaceae) near Boston, MA. Oct. 2002.

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A bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) on a thistle (Asteraceae). MSU garden. July 20, 2002.

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A bomble bee foraging on flowers. MSU garden. July 2002.

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A bumble bee (Bombus spp) foraging on the white pear-like flower (Rosaceae). Avignon, France. March 16, 2002.

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A bumble foraging on flowers. Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China. June 16, 2001.

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A bumble bee (Bombus spp, Apidae) foraging on a dahlia flower (Dahlia spp, Asteraceae). Kunming, Yunnan, China. May 2001.

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A bumble bee (Bombus sp, Apidae) foraing on a Caucasian inula (Inula orientalis, Asteraceae). MSU Beal Botanical Garden. July 22, 2003.

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A bumble bee (Bombus spp, Apidae) foraging on wild marjoram (Organum vulgare, Lamiaceae). MSU Beal Botanical Garden. July 22, 2003.*

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A bumble bee (probably Bombus affinis, Apidae, identified by Gary Parsons) foraging on spotted knapweed (Centaurea maculosa, Asteraceae). Also called star thistle, it is a good nectar plant for bees, but the plant is considered an agressive weed because it produces allelopathic chemicals to kill other nearby plants and creating a monoculture of itself. Beal Botanical Garden, MSU campus. August 7, 2003.

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A bumble bee on a water melon (Citrullus lanatus, Cucurbitaceae) flower. August 7, 2003. MSU Beal Botanical Garden.

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