Northern white-tailed bumble bee
The northern white-tailed bumble bee is a big, fuzzy European bumblebee with a white tail end. It looks so much like a few other bumblebees that even bee experts mix them up. It likes open hills covered in heather.
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Fun facts
It looks almost the same as the white-tailed and buff-tailed bumblebees. Scientists have even used computer programs to help tell them apart.
Together with two close cousins, it belongs to a group called the white-tailed bumblebee complex.
Scientists also compare the smells that the males make to tell these bees apart.
Experts think a warming climate may cause problems for it.
Most asked questions about Northern white-tailed bumble bee
?How can you tell it from other white-tailed bumblebees?
It is very hard, even for experts. Scientists look at tiny details on the feelers, the males' smells and even their DNA.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus magnus
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Europe
- Also known as
- Northern white-tailed bumblebee
Where the facts come from
- Bombus magnus (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 Rasbak. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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