Florentine woolcarder bee
Anthidium florentinum
The Florentine woolcarder bee is a medium to large bee with a black body and yellow bands. The males guard their own patch of flowers and chase other bees away. Unlike most bees, the males are bigger than the females.
Lives in
Europe and western Asia, such as southern France and Iran, in sunny places with flowers
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar and collects pollen from flowers such as alfalfa.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Florentine woolcarder 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 builds its nest in a crack or in the old nest of another insect, and lines it with chewed plant fibres.
2
The female carries pollen on a pale yellow brush of hairs under her belly.
3
Bees brought from Iran pollinated alfalfa in the United States better than the local bees did.
you asked
Most asked questions about Florentine woolcarder bee
?Why do the males chase other bees?
Each male guards his own patch of flowers, where he waits to meet females.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anthidium florentinum
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Megachilidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Megachilidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Anthidium florentinum (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 Alvesgaspar. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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