Red-belted bumble bee
Bombus rufocinctus
The red-belted bumble bee is a small fuzzy bumblebee. It is black and bright yellow, and many have a belt of reddish hairs on their tummy. It visits flowers in woods, parks and gardens.
Lives in
Canada and much of the United States, in woods, parks and gardens
Length
1.1 to 1.3 cm (0.43 to 0.51 in)
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar and collects pollen from sunflowers, goldenrods, clovers, strawberries and many other flowers.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 27 seconds⚡moves 300 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Red-belted bumble bee about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The queen is the biggest, about 1.6 to 1.8 centimetres long.
2
Some have red hairs on their belly and some have black, it is in their genes.
3
It has a short tongue, so it likes flowers that are easy to reach into.
4
It usually builds its nest on or above the ground.
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Most asked questions about Red-belted bumble bee
?How big is the red-belted bumble bee?
Workers are about 1 centimetre long and the queen nearly 2 centimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus rufocinctus
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Red-belted bumblebee
Where the facts come from
- Bombus rufocinctus (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 Christian Grenier. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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