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Re: Bumblebee Project
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Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:22:46 -0000
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Robert Brenchley wrote:
> We don't use the term for solitary bees, but for  the social bees of the
> genus Bombus, and often colloquially for similar-looking  bees such as the
> cuckoo
> bees of the genus Psithyrus.

I understand that psithyrus has now been reclassified as a sub-genus of the
genus Bombus.

Peter Edwards
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