Middle-striped bumble bee
The middle-striped bumble bee is a fluffy bumblebee from Mexico and Central America. It lives in misty cloud forests high in the mountains. It needs old natural forest to survive.
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Fun facts
It nests underground in very shallow holes, sometimes in old mouse or rat burrows.
Its colonies are small. One nest had only 27 workers.
The eggs and babies lie on a soft bed of moist pollen.
When young bees leave their cocoons, the old empty cocoons are made bigger with wax and used as honey pots.
It is losing its home because forests are cut down for farms, mines and towns.
Most asked questions about Middle-striped bumble bee
?Where does the middle-striped bumble bee live?
In Mexico and Central America, in mountain cloud forests.
?Where does the middle-striped bumble bee make its nest?
Underground in shallow holes, sometimes in old rodent burrows.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus medius
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Bombus medius (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) Ismael EPM, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA). CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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