Forest bumble bee
The forest bumble bee is a fluffy bumblebee from Canada, Alaska and the western United States. It loves cold places, high in the mountains and in the far north, where it buzzes over grassy mountain meadows.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It usually builds its nest underground, but sometimes right on the surface.
Some forest bumble bees have long tongues and some have short ones.
As the climate warms, flowers with deep tubes are getting rarer, so more of these bees now have short tongues.
It can look almost exactly like another bee, the black-tailed bumblebee.
In California it only lives high up in the mountains.
Most asked questions about Forest bumble bee
?Where does the forest bumble bee live?
In Canada, Alaska and the western United States, in cold mountain meadows.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus sylvicola
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Forest bumblebee
Where the facts come from
- Bombus sylvicola (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 Matt Muir. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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