Broken-belted bumble bee
The broken-belted bumble bee is a fairly small, fluffy bumblebee. It is black with yellow stripes and a white tail. The yellow belt on its tummy often has black hairs in the middle, so the belt looks broken in two.
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Fun facts
Its nest is usually under the ground and holds at most about 80 to 150 workers.
The queen is the biggest bee in the nest. She is about 16 millimetres long.
It lives as far north as northern Scandinavia and Siberia, and as far east as Lake Baikal and Mongolia.
In southern Britain it has become much rarer since about 1960.
Most asked questions about Broken-belted bumble bee
?What do broken-belted bumble bees eat?
Nectar and pollen from flowers such as clover, heather and harebells.
?How big is a broken-belted bumble bee?
Workers are about 12 millimetres long and males about 13. The queen is the biggest, about 16 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus soroeensis
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Ilfracombe bumblebee
Where the facts come from
- Broken-belted bumblebee (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 Ivar Leidus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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