Paulista bumble bee
Bombus pauloensis
The Paulista bumble bee is a black bumblebee from South America. It has a long tongue for reaching deep into flowers. Sometimes many queens share one nest, which is very rare for bumblebees.
Lives in
South America, including Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar and collects pollen from many kinds of flowers.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Paulista bumble bee about 16 km/h (9.9 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 was the first bumblebee found to have many queens in one nest.
2
Its round nest can be 10 to 30 centimetres wide.
3
The workers keep the nest a little warmer than outside by shivering their muscles.
4
It helps farmers by carrying pollen between flowers.
5
It can start new nests at any time of the year.
you asked
Most asked questions about Paulista bumble bee
?What colour is the Paulista bumble bee?
It is mostly black, with a bit of paler hair near the end of its tummy.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus pauloensis
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- South America
Where the facts come from
- Bombus pauloensis (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) Tomás Carranza Perales, 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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