Two-spotted bumblebee
The two-spotted bumblebee is a fuzzy black and yellow bumblebee from North America. It gets its name from the two yellow spots on its tummy. It is a busy helper that visits many kinds of flowers.
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Fun facts
Unlike many other bumblebees, it is not becoming rarer. There are lots of them and their numbers are steady.
It does not build its own nest hole. It moves into old mouse holes, hollow logs or tufts of grass.
Its nest is often 15 to 30 centimetres under the ground, at the end of a long tunnel.
In spring, the queen starts a new nest all by herself and has to keep the babies warm and fetch food at the same time.
Its eggs hatch after only four days.
Most asked questions about Two-spotted bumblebee
?Why is it called the two-spotted bumblebee?
Because of the two yellow spots on its tummy.
?Where does the two-spotted bumblebee nest?
Usually underground in old rodent holes, sometimes in hollow logs or tufts of grass.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus bimaculatus
- Named by
- Cresson, 1863
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Two-spotted bumble bee (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 Bernie Paquette. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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