California digger bee
Anthophora californica
The California digger bee is a wild bee from North and Central America. It belongs to the same big bee family as honey bees and bumblebees. Its name tells you its trick: digger bees make their nests in the ground.
Lives in
North and Central America
What does it eat?
Like other bees, it drinks sweet nectar from flowers and collects pollen to feed its babies.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
California digger 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
There are two kinds of California digger bee, called subspecies, that look a little different.
2
It is a cousin of the honey bee, but it does not live in a big hive with thousands of other bees.
3
When a bee visits flowers, pollen sticks to its hairy body and it carries it from flower to flower. That helps plants make seeds.
you asked
Most asked questions about California digger bee
?Where does the California digger bee live?
It lives in North America and Central America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anthophora californica
- Named by
- Cresson, 1869
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Anthophora californica (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 USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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