Two-spotted longhorn bee
Melissodes bimaculatus
The two-spotted longhorn bee is a long-horned bee. Long-horned bees got their name because the males have very long feelers. Like other bees, it visits flowers to collect pollen.
Lives in
North America, in meadows and gardens
What does it eat?
Like other bees, it drinks nectar and collects pollen from flowers.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Two-spotted longhorn 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
The males have extra long feelers, which give these bees their name.
2
It belongs to the same family as honey bees and bumblebees.
3
There are two subspecies of it.
you asked
Most asked questions about Two-spotted longhorn bee
?Why is it called a longhorn bee?
Because the males have very long feelers, like horns.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Melissodes bimaculatus
- Named by
- Lepeletier, 1825
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Two-spotted longhorn
Where the facts come from
- Melissodes bimaculatus (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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