Nevada bumble bee
Bombus nevadensis
The Nevada bumble bee is a big, fuzzy bumble bee with short, thick fur. It has a yellow back and yellow stripes at the front of its tail, and the rest is black. It has a long tongue to reach deep into flowers.
Lives in
Western North America from Alaska to Mexico, in prairies and meadows
Length
1.4 to 1.7 cm (0.55 to 0.67 in)
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar and collects pollen from flowers like clover, thistle, bergamot, penstemon and sage.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 3 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 24 seconds⚡moves 260 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Nevada 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
The queen is the biggest, about 2 centimetres long.
2
It usually builds its nest under the ground.
3
The boys have a yellow face, but the girls have an all black head.
4
The tip of a male's tail is often reddish.
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Most asked questions about Nevada bumble bee
?How big is the Nevada bumble bee?
Workers are about 1.7 centimetres long and queens about 2 centimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus nevadensis
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Nevada bumblebee
Where the facts come from
- Bombus nevadensis (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 Sesamehoneytart. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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