Vancouver bumble bee
Bombus vancouverensis
The Vancouver bumble bee is a small, fuzzy bumble bee from the mountains of western North America. Some have a red tail and others a black tail. It lives in a family with a queen and her worker daughters.
Lives in
Mountains of western North America, from Alaska and Canada to California and Utah
Length
0.8 to 1.4 cm (0.31 to 0.55 in)
workers; queens are 15 to 19 mmWhat does it eat?
It collects nectar and pollen from flowers like asters, lupines, thistles and goldenrod.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2.5 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 27 seconds⚡moves 280 times its own body length every second
How big is Vancouver bumble bee compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Vancouver bumble bee about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It sometimes builds its nest in an old mouse or rat nest.
2
A new queen sleeps all winter and starts a new family in spring.
3
It can tell family from strangers by their smell.
4
Males mark paths with a special smell and fly along them looking for queens.
5
The queen is the biggest bee in the nest.
you asked
Most asked questions about Vancouver bumble bee
?How big is the Vancouver bumble bee?
Workers are about 0.8 to 1.4 cm long, and queens up to about 1.9 cm.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus vancouverensis
- Named by
- Cresson, 1878
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Vancouver bumblebee
Where the facts come from
- Bombus vancouverensis (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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