Brown-banded carder bumble bee
The brown-banded carder bumble bee is a fluffy, gingery bumblebee with a dark brown stripe across its tummy. It has a long tongue for reaching deep into flowers. It likes big grassy meadows full of clover.
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Fun facts
The queen builds the nest on top of the ground, in tufts of grass.
Its nest is small, usually with fewer than 100 bees.
In Central Asia it lives high in the mountains, 3,000 to 3,900 metres up.
It is losing its homes because many old meadows have been turned into big farm fields.
Queens are 16 to 18 millimetres long, bigger than the workers.
Most asked questions about Brown-banded carder bumble bee
?What does the brown-banded carder bee eat?
Nectar and pollen from meadow flowers like clover and knapweed.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus humilis
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Brown-banded carder bee
Where the facts come from
- Brown-banded carder bee (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 (c) Поляков Александр, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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