Sichel's bumble bee
Bombus sichelii
Name means: “named after the French insect scientist Frédéric Jules Sichel”
Sichel's bumble bee is a furry bumblebee that lives high up in the mountains. It buzzes over mountain meadows and the edges of light forests. It visits many different kinds of flowers.
Lives in
Mountains of Europe and Asia, from Spain and the Alps to Russia and Japan
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)
Sichel's 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
In Germany it lives only in the Alps, mostly between 1900 and 2700 metres up.
2
It often makes its nest underground, for example in an old empty mouse nest.
3
One nest has about 80 to 150 bees.
4
The queens wake up from their winter sleep between late April and mid June, depending on how high up they live.
you asked
Most asked questions about Sichel's bumble bee
?Where does Sichel's bumble bee live?
In high mountains of Europe and Asia, on meadows and forest edges.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus sichelii
- Named by
- Radoszkowski, 1860
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Sichel's bumblebee (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 (c) Fedotova Elena, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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