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Yellow-banded bumblebee. Macrophotograph of a male yellow-banded bumblebee (Bombus terricola), a species native to North America. It was once a common species but numbers have declined. Photographed by the USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab: an organisation dedicated to identifying, cataloguing and monitoring bees and other insect species. (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)