Summary ²

Bombus fernaldae, the Fernald's cuckoo bumblebee, is a species of cuckoo bumblebee having only males and queens, but no worker bees. The females place their eggs in the nest of the confusing bumblebee (Bombus perplexus) or the red-belted bumblebee (Bombus rufocinctus), which raise the larvae. Fernald's cuckoo bumblebees pollinate Potentilla, Rubus, clovers, and goldenrods.

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1. (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=ento&irn=9119948
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_fernaldae

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