Orange-legged bumble bee
The orange-legged bumble bee is a very large bumblebee from Asia. The hair on its chest is black, and its middle and back legs have bright orange hair. It looks as if it is wearing orange socks.
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Fun facts
The queen is the biggest of all, about 28 to 29 millimetres long, almost 3 centimetres.
Its bright orange has also been called yellowish red.
It is easy to mix it up with another kind of bumblebee that looks very similar.
Around the Sichuan basin in China it is quite rare and lives on low hills.
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The workers are about 14 to 19 millimetres long, and the queen can be almost 3 centimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus eximius
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Bombus eximius (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 USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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