Frigid bumble bee
The frigid bumble bee is a big, long-haired bumblebee that lives in cold places in Canada and the northern United States. It is yellow at the front, with a black band between its wings and an orange or yellow tail end. It is very good at keeping warm.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It keeps the middle of its body at about 36 degrees, almost as warm as you are, even in cold places.
In winter the queen sleeps alone in a little room in the ground. When the snow melts in May, she wakes up and looks for a nest.
Its eggs hatch after about four days, but it takes about four weeks for the first worker bees to grow up.
The males are only about half the size of the queen.
It is rare, but unlike many other bumblebees, its numbers are not going down.
Most asked questions about Frigid bumble bee
?How does the frigid bumble bee stay warm?
It is a large, furry bumblebee that keeps its body at about 36 degrees, which lets it live where smaller bees would freeze.
?Where does the frigid bumble bee live?
In cold, high places from Alaska across Canada and south to Colorado.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus frigidus
- Named by
- Smith, 1854
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Frigid bumblebee
Where the facts come from
- Bombus frigidus (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) Jack Bindernagel, 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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