Oaxacan bumble bee
Bombus trinominatus
The Oaxacan bumble bee is a fuzzy bumblebee from the mountains of Mexico and Guatemala. It lives very high up, where pine and oak trees grow together. Its thick fur helps bumblebees stay warm in cool mountain air.
Lives in
The mountains of Mexico and Guatemala, in pine and oak forests
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar from flowers and collects pollen to feed the young bees in its nest.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Oaxacan 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
It lives more than 2,500 metres above the sea, higher than many mountains in Europe.
2
It is closely tied to forests where pine trees and oak trees grow together.
3
Its numbers are not falling right now, but some of the forests where it could live are in danger.
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Most asked questions about Oaxacan bumble bee
?Where does the Oaxacan bumble bee live?
High in the mountains of Mexico and Guatemala, in pine and oak forests.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus trinominatus
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Bombus trinominatus (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) Eugenio Padilla, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA). CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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