I found an Orange Bee??????

Question

Today I was in my garden and I found a bee that was yellow, black, fuzzy but it had an orange strip. It looked like this http://farm1.static.flickr.com/75/225725016_d1bc52c056.jpg?v=0. Can you tell me what kind of bee this is and is it rare??

Answer 1

It is called a tricolor bumble bee.  Only a few species of bumble bee have the orange marking. You are lucky, they are pretty.

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