Bicoloured bumble bee
Bombus bicoloratus
The bicoloured bumble bee is a fuzzy bumblebee from East Asia. It lives mainly in southern China and Taiwan. It is a hard-working helper for farmers because it carries pollen from flower to flower.
Lives in
Southern China and Taiwan
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar from flowers and collects pollen to feed the young bees in its nest.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Bicoloured 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
In China it helps pollinate peppers, sunflowers and hosta plants.
2
Without pollinators like it, many plants could not make fruit and seeds.
3
Like all bumblebees, it lives in a nest with a queen and her worker daughters.
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Most asked questions about Bicoloured bumble bee
?Where does the bicoloured bumble bee live?
Mainly in southern China and Taiwan.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus bicoloratus
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Bombus bicoloratus (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 Jacy Chen. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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