Fuzzy-horned bumble bee
Bombus mixtus
The fuzzy-horned bumble bee is a furry bumblebee from western North America. It loves cool places, from mountain meadows to the far northern taiga and tundra. It buzzes from flower to flower collecting food.
Lives in
Western Canada and the western United States, plus a small area near the Great Lakes
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar and collects pollen from flowers like fireweed, rhododendrons, penstemons and wild mints.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Fuzzy-horned bumble bee about 16 km/h (9.9 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It makes its nest under the ground or right on the surface.
2
It lives as far north as the cold tundra, where few other bees can live.
3
Besides its main home in the west, a separate group lives far away near the Great Lakes.
you asked
Most asked questions about Fuzzy-horned bumble bee
?Where do fuzzy-horned bumble bees live?
In meadows, mountains, shrublands and northern tundra of western North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus mixtus
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Tricoloured bumblebee, Orange-belted bumblebee, Mixed bumblebee
Where the facts come from
- Bombus mixtus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by USFWS Pacific. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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