Sitka bumble bee
The Sitka bumble bee is a fluffy bee from the west of North America. It wears yellow and black stripes and has a reddish-brown tail. Its queens are busy for almost the whole year.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Its queens can fly from the end of January until the beginning of December. That is a very long season for a bumble bee.
The first worker bees come out in early March, and the males in early April.
It likes to build its nest in old holes made by mice and other small animals.
In some parks in California it has become a little rarer, because another bumble bee takes the best nest holes.
Most asked questions about Sitka bumble bee
?Where does the Sitka bumble bee live?
In western North America, from Alaska and Canada down to the coast of California.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus sitkensis
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Sitka bumblebee
Where the facts come from
- Bombus sitkensis (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) bcislander, 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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