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Black-backed Bumble Bee
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Black-backed Bumble Bee

Bombus mesomelas

Bombus mesomelas (also called black-backed bumblebee) is a species of bumblebees.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 876163.