Sunflower chimney bee
Diadasia enavata
The sunflower chimney bee is a North American bee that only visits flowers of the daisy family, like sunflowers. Chimney bees are named for the little mud chimneys they build over their nest holes.
Lives in
North America and Central America
What does it eat?
It collects pollen and nectar only from flowers of the daisy family, such as sunflowers and coreopsis.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Sunflower chimney 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
It helps plants by carrying pollen from flower to flower. It has been seen doing this on coreopsis, a bright yellow flower.
2
It lives in North America and Central America.
3
Like other bees, it carries pollen on its hairy body.
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Most asked questions about Sunflower chimney bee
?What does the sunflower chimney bee eat?
Nectar and pollen from sunflowers and other flowers of the daisy family.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Diadasia enavata
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Diadasia enavata (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 (c) Ellen Eiriksson, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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