Great Basin Bumble Bee Images, Facts and Information:
Bombus centralis
- Great Basin Bumble Bees are found in parts of Canada and the western United States.
- Great Basin Bumble Bees live in prairies or river valleys
- Great Basin Bumble Bees are yellow, black, and orange-red. Across the thorax is a black, medially located band.
- Great Basin Bumble Bees forage on wild onions, rabbitbrush, thistles, goldenbushes, mints, penstemons, and phacelias.
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Common Sunflower, Great Basin Bumble Bee and Long-horned Bee
Title: Common Sunflower, Great Basin Bumble Bee and Long-horned Bee
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/18/2020
Native
Mia McPherson
Great Basin Bumble Bee and Long-horned Bee on a Common Sunflower
Title: Great Basin Bumble Bee and Long-horned Bee on a Common Sunflower
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/18/2020
Native
Mia McPherson
Great Basin Bumble Bee and Black Twinberry Honeysuckle
Title: Great Basin Bumble Bee and Black Twinberry Honeysuckle
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 5/19/2020
Native
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Great Basin Bumble Bee flying next to a Musk Thistle
Title: Great Basin Bumble Bee flying next to a Musk Thistle
Location: Cascade Springs, Wasatch National Forest, Wasatch County, Utah
Date: 7/9/2015
Mia McPherson
Great Basin Bumble Bee on a thistle blossom
Title: Great Basin Bumble Bee on a thistle blossom
Location: Cascade Springs, Wasatch National Forest, Wasatch County, Utah
Date: 7/9/2015