Mesoamerican bumble bee
Bombus ephippiatus
The Mesoamerican bumble bee is a fluffy bee from the mountains of Mexico and Central America. It comes in many colours: its fur can be white, yellow, orange, red, brown or black. Two bees of the same kind can look really different.
Lives in
Mexico and Central America, in pine and oak forests in the mountains
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)
Mesoamerican 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 lives high up in the mountains, and living on separate mountains may be why it has so many colour patterns.
2
In some places it is busy all year round.
3
It is very good at pollinating tomato plants.
4
People take queens from the wild to use on farms, and too much of that could harm the bees.
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Most asked questions about Mesoamerican bumble bee
?Where does the Mesoamerican bumble bee live?
In Mexico and Central America, mostly in mountain forests of pine and oak.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus ephippiatus
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Bombus ephippiatus (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 Patylandavr. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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