Fire-tailed bumble bee
Bombus ardens
The fire-tailed bumble bee is a fuzzy, round bumblebee from Japan and Korea. It buzzes from flower to flower to collect sweet nectar and pollen. Its name tells you to look at the end of its body.
Lives in
Japan and Korea, in meadows and gardens with flowers
What does it eat?
It drinks sweet nectar from flowers and collects pollen to feed the young bees in its nest.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Fire-tailed 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 was first described in 1879 by Frederick Smith, using bees kept in the collection of the British Museum.
2
Scientists split it into two subspecies, which are slightly different groups of the same bee.
3
Like other bumblebees, it carries pollen from flower to flower, and that helps plants make seeds and fruit.
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Most asked questions about Fire-tailed bumble bee
?Where does the fire-tailed bumble bee live?
In Japan and Korea.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus ardens
- Named by
- Smith, 1879
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Fire-tailed bumblebee
Where the facts come from
- Bombus ardens (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 H.Kohori. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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