Yellow-fronted bumble bee
The yellow-fronted bumble bee is a fluffy, round bumblebee with messy fur. Its head is yellow, and its tail end has red and black stripes. It lives in cool places, high in the mountains and far up north.
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Fun facts
The queen often builds her nest in an old mouse nest.
The queen is the biggest, about 13 to 16 millimetres long.
At the end of summer the whole nest dies, except the new queens, which sleep through the winter in the ground.
The first workers hatch about a month after the queen wakes up in spring.
A cuckoo bumblebee sneaks into its nests and lets the workers raise its young.
Most asked questions about Yellow-fronted bumble bee
?Where does the yellow-fronted bumble bee live?
In Canada, Alaska and the western United States, in cool mountains and northern forests.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus flavifrons
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Yellowhead bumblebee
Where the facts come from
- Bombus flavifrons (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 La4bonte. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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