Abrupt digger bee
Anthophora abrupta
The abrupt digger bee is a North American bee. It likes company: these bees build their nests close together, like a little bee village.
Lives in
North America
What does it eat?
Like other bees, it visits flowers for nectar and pollen.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Abrupt digger bee about 22 km/h (14 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
When one female starts building a nest, others come too. They are drawn by her movements and by her smell.
2
Each female mates only once, but a male can mate many times.
3
Digger bees get their name because they dig their nests in soil or clay.
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Most asked questions about Abrupt digger bee
?Where does the abrupt digger bee live?
In North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anthophora abrupta
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Anthophora abrupta (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 Photo or drawing by Pavel Klimov, Bee Mite ID (idtools.org/id/mites/beemites) unless otherwise stated in description on Bee mites website.. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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