Sanderson's bumble bee
Sanderson's bumble bee is a fuzzy black bumblebee with pale hairs on its head and yellow on its tummy. It lives in Canada and the eastern United States, often near woods. It makes its nest under the ground.
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Fun facts
The queen is the biggest in the nest. She is 15 to 16 millimetres long.
The workers look like the queen, but the tip of their tummy is black.
It lives in many kinds of places, from forests and prairies to the cold tundra in the far north.
Its numbers have stayed steady, but scientists think it may be extra sensitive to the climate getting warmer.
Most asked questions about Sanderson's bumble bee
?Where does Sanderson's bumble bee live?
In Canada and the eastern United States, mostly in and around woods.
?How big is Sanderson's bumble bee?
Workers and males are about 10 to 13 mm long. The queen is a bit bigger.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus sandersoni
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Sanderson bumblebee
Where the facts come from
- Bombus sandersoni (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 Quinten Wiegersma. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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