Black-and-gold bumble bee
Bombus auricomus
The black-and-gold bumble bee is a big fuzzy bumblebee in black and golden yellow. It buzzes around grasslands and meadows. It builds its nest above the ground.
Lives in
Eastern North America, from Ontario across the eastern United States to the Great Plains
Length
1.7 to 2 cm (0.67 to 0.79 in)
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar and collects pollen from thistles, clovers, coneflowers, bergamot and many other flowers.
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 22 seconds⚡moves 240 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)
Black-and-gold bumble bee about 17 km/h (11 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
Queens can be up to 2.5 centimetres long.
2
Scientists once thought it was the same species as the Nevada bumblebee.
3
It makes its nest in grassland and other open places.
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Most asked questions about Black-and-gold bumble bee
?How big is the black-and-gold bumble bee?
Workers are about 2 centimetres long, and queens up to 2.5 centimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus auricomus
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Black and gold bumblebee
Where the facts come from
- Bombus auricomus (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 megachile. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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