Cousinly bumble bee
Bombus consobrinus
The cousinly bumble bee is a big, fluffy bumblebee of the northern forests. The front of its body is orange, then comes a black band, and the tip of its tail is grey. It is a real picky eater with one favourite flower.
Lives in
Northern Europe, Siberia, Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan, in northern forests
What does it eat?
In northern Europe it drinks nectar almost only from monkshood flowers. Farther east it also lives where no monkshood grows.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Cousinly 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
It lives in the taiga, the huge cold forests of the far north.
2
Its range stretches all the way from northern Europe to Kamchatka and Japan.
3
Monkshood flowers are shaped like a little hood. In northern Europe this bee and one close cousin rely on them almost completely.
you asked
Most asked questions about Cousinly bumble bee
?What does the cousinly bumble bee eat?
Nectar and pollen from flowers. In northern Europe it visits almost only monkshood.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus consobrinus
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Bombus consobrinus (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 Atle Mjelde. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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