Fiery-tailed bumble bee
The fiery-tailed bumble bee is a big, furry bee. The females are black with a bright orange-red tail end, like a little glowing coal. It lives in China, Japan and Korea.
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Fun facts
Farmers in China and Japan use it to pollinate their crops.
The queen is the biggest in the family, about 19 millimetres long.
The males have two golden yellow bands on the front of their body, so they look different from the females.
The young queen mates in late summer and then sleeps through the whole winter before starting a new nest in spring.
The smaller workers stay home and care for the babies, while the bigger ones fly out to find food.
Most asked questions about Fiery-tailed bumble bee
?Where does the fiery-tailed bumble bee live?
In East Asia, mostly in China, Japan and Korea.
?How big is the fiery-tailed bumble bee?
Workers are about 15 to 17 millimetres long, and the queen about 19 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus ignitus
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Bombus ignitus (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 Daiju Azuma. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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