Crotch's bumble bee
Crotch's bumble bee is a fuzzy black bumble bee with yellow and orange bands. It lives mostly in California and loves hot, dry grassland. Sadly, it has become very rare.
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Fun facts
It is endangered. There are far fewer of these bees than there were just ten years ago.
It often builds its nest underground in an old mouse or rat hole.
Queens are bigger than the workers, about 2.3 to 2.4 centimetres long.
Males have huge eyes that cover most of their face, and yellow hair on their faces.
It needs hotter and drier weather than most other bumble bees.
Most asked questions about Crotch's bumble bee
?Why is Crotch's bumble bee endangered?
Because of bug sprays, a changing climate and new towns and farms built where it used to live.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus crotchii
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Golden State bumble bee
Where the facts come from
- Bombus crotchii (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) trickykid1, 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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