Bumblebee-like digger bee
Anthophora bomboides
Name means: “like a bumblebee”
The bumblebee-like digger bee is a fuzzy North American bee that looks just like a bumblebee. But it is not one. It lives on its own and digs its nest in the ground.
Lives in
North America
What does it eat?
Like other bees, it visits flowers for nectar and pollen.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Bumblebee-like digger bee about 22 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
Its bumblebee costume is a clever trick. Animals that have learned to avoid bumblebees leave it alone too.
2
It is usually not common, but scientists once found a group of around 400,000 of them.
3
Bumblebees live in big families, but each digger bee mother builds her own nest.
you asked
Most asked questions about Bumblebee-like digger bee
?Is the bumblebee-like digger bee a bumblebee?
No. It only looks like one. It is a digger bee that lives alone.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anthophora bomboides
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Anthophora bomboides (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 USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, USA. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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