Western Bumble Bee

Historically broadly distributed in western North America. Bombus occidentalis occurs along the Pacific coast and western interior of North America, from Arizona, New Mexico and California, north through the Pacific Northwest and into Alaska. Eastward, the distribution stretches to the northwestern Great Plains and southern Saskatchewan.  

Is this a Western Bumble Bee / Bombus occidentalis? : r/bees

COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Western Bumble Bee

IBP - Blog Post

Bumblebee blues: Pacific Northwest pollinator in trouble

Eureka! A Western Bumble Bee - Bug Squad - ANR Blogs

Bumblebee blues: Pacific Northwest pollinator in trouble

Bumble Bee Summer — Wild Bee Project Urban Farmscape SLC, UT

Positive buzz: One bumblebee species makes a comeback

Bumble Bee Pollination in Tomato Greenhouses

Western Bumble Bee? - Bombus occidentalis

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Bumble Bee Pollination in Tomato Greenhouses

Common Eastern Bumble Bee National Wildlife Federation

Western Bumble Bee (Yosemite National Park Bumble Bee Guide

This weekend, BUGfest will celebrate the western bumble bee