Brown-belted bumblebee
The brown-belted bumblebee is a fluffy yellow and black bumblebee with a brownish band around its tummy. It is happy almost anywhere with flowers, from meadows to big city gardens. One was even seen near the top of the Empire State Building in New York.
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Fun facts
The queen is the biggest, about 2.2 centimetres long. Workers can be smaller than 1 centimetre.
To keep the babies warm, bees wrap their bodies around the cocoons. Here even the boy bees help, which is rare.
Its nests are small, usually with fewer than 50 workers.
Unlike many bumblebees in North America, this one is doing well and is not getting rarer.
Most asked questions about Brown-belted bumblebee
?What does the brown-belted bumblebee eat?
Nectar and pollen from many kinds of flowers.
?How big is a brown-belted bumblebee?
Workers and males are about 1 to 2 centimetres long. The queen is a bit bigger.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus griseocollis
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Bombus griseocollis (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 USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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