Black-clothed bumble bee
The black-clothed bumble bee is a tropical bumblebee from Mexico and Central America. Most bumblebee nests have just one queen, but its nests can have many queens. It is a busy flower visitor, but it does not like anyone near its nest.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
In one nest, scientists counted 36 queens among 343 bees.
About 9 out of 10 known colonies are in Costa Rica.
It usually nests on the ground, tied to strong plants so tropical storms do not wash it away. One nest was found 5.5 metres up.
Workers tidy the nest by shredding leaves and kicking the bits onto the sides to make it stronger.
A trip to collect food can take about 50 minutes.
Most asked questions about Black-clothed bumble bee
?Where does the black-clothed bumble bee live?
In southern Mexico and Central America, mostly in Costa Rica, from lowlands to high mountains.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus pullatus
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Bombus pullatus (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 Rob Foster. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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