Half-black bumble bee
Bombus vagans
The half-black bumble bee is a small, fluffy bee. The front half of its body is yellow and the back half is black, just like its name says. It buzzes around flowers in eastern North America.
Lives in
Eastern North America, in meadows, gardens and shady woods
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar and collects pollen from flowers like clover, milkweed, thistle and apple blossoms.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Half-black 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
Unlike most bumble bees around it, it likes to look for food in shady forests.
2
A big nest can have about seventy worker bees.
3
It builds its nest on the ground or in holes under the ground.
4
The queen wakes up from her winter sleep quite late, often in May.
5
A special kind of bee lives on the island of Newfoundland and nowhere else.
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Most asked questions about Half-black bumble bee
?Where does the half-black bumble bee live?
In eastern North America, from Canada south to Georgia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus vagans
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Half-black bumblebee
Where the facts come from
- Bombus vagans (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 Jacy Lucier. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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