Mexican bumble bee
Bombus mexicanus
The Mexican bumble bee is a fuzzy bumblebee from Mexico and Central America. It lives in damp mountain forests, warm jungles and farms. It helps guava and coffee plants make fruit by carrying pollen from flower to flower.
Lives in
Mexico and Central America, in forests and plantations
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar and collects pollen from flowers, including guava and coffee flowers.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Mexican 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 is most common between 400 and 1000 metres above the sea.
2
It helps farmers by pollinating guava and coffee plants.
3
Sadly, it now lives in less than one fifth of the places where it used to live.
4
It is losing its home to cattle farms and farm chemicals, and many of the wild plants it needs are disappearing too.
you asked
Most asked questions about Mexican bumble bee
?Is the Mexican bumble bee endangered?
It has declined a lot. It now lives in less than a fifth of its old range.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus mexicanus
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Bombus mexicanus (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 Rmonteverdensis. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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