French Guianan bumblebees

Here is a selection of bumblebees and carpenter bees that I collected in French Guiana in 2000 – plus 1 that I was given. With a little help from Mitchener’s “Bees of the World” and some prompting from David Notton at the NHM I have identified these to genus:

(scale marks are 1mm apart in groups of 5mm)

Many thanks to David for his help 🙂