Lapland bumble bee
Bombus lapponicus
The Lapland bumble bee is a fluffy bumblebee from the far north of Europe. It lives where summers are short and winters are long and cold. It is quite a common bee there.
Lives in
Northern Europe: Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, in northern forests and on the tundra
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar and collects pollen from many different kinds of flowers.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Lapland 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, a huge northern forest, and on the treeless tundra.
2
It visits many different kinds of plants for food.
3
Scientists are not sure exactly where all it lives, because it is easy to mix up with other bumblebees.
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Most asked questions about Lapland bumble bee
?Where does the Lapland bumble bee live?
In the far north of Europe, in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus lapponicus
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Bombus lapponicus (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 Lars Falkdalen Lindahl. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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