Urbane digger bee
Anthophora urbana
The urbane digger bee is a black bee covered in grey hair, with grey stripes around its tail end. It is a solitary bee, which means each mother lives on her own instead of in a big hive. It is about the size of a honey bee.
Lives in
North America and Central America
Length
1 to 1.3 cm (0.39 to 0.51 in)
What does it eat?
Like other bees, it visits flowers for nectar and pollen.
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 16 seconds⚡moves 490 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Urbane digger bee about 23 km/h (14 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
It lives alone, not in a big family like honey bees.
2
A special kind of this bee lives on San Clemente Island off California.
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Most asked questions about Urbane digger bee
?How big is the urbane digger bee?
It is about 1 to 1.3 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anthophora urbana
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Anthophora urbana (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) Zack Abbey, 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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