Cullum's bumble bee
Cullum's bumble bee is a black bumblebee with a bright red tail. The queens and workers often have some yellow hairs mixed in on their front. It has become very rare.
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Fun facts
It used to live in southern England, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
Now in western Europe it is found only in the mountains of central France and the Pyrenees.
The male looks different from the female. He has a yellow face and pale stripes at the front of his back end.
Some bees in Asia might be the same kind. They live high in the mountains, up to 3200 metres.
Most asked questions about Cullum's bumble bee
?What does Cullum's bumble bee look like?
It is black with a red tail. The male has a yellow face.
?Is Cullum's bumble bee rare?
Yes. It has disappeared from most of western Europe.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus cullumanus
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Cullum's humble-bee
Where the facts come from
- Bombus cullumanus (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) Dmitriy Bochkov, 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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