Belted bumble bee
Bombus cingulatus
The belted bumble bee is a fuzzy bumblebee from Europe and Asia. It looks a lot like the tree bumblebee, only a bit smaller. Look between its wings: it has a little band of darker hair there.
Lives in
Europe and Asia
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar from flowers and collects pollen to feed the young bees in its nest.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Belted 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 is also called the small tree bumblebee.
2
Its nests are usually smaller than the nests of the tree bumblebee.
3
The dark band of hair between its wings is the best way to tell it apart from its look-alike cousin.
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Most asked questions about Belted bumble bee
?How is the belted bumble bee different from the tree bumblebee?
It is a bit smaller, makes smaller nests and has a band of darker hair between its wings.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus cingulatus
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Small tree bumblebee
Where the facts come from
- Bombus cingulatus (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 Frode Ødegaard/Norsk institutt for naturforskning. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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