Yellow-faced bumblebee
The yellow-faced bumblebee is a fuzzy black bumblebee with a yellow face and one yellow stripe near its tail. It is the most common bee on the west coast of North America. It buzzes around gardens, parks and farms collecting pollen in little baskets on its back legs.
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Fun facts
The queen is the biggest bee, about 2 centimetres long.
Farmers use these bumblebees to pollinate tomatoes in greenhouses.
It nests underground, often in an old mouse hole, with about 200 to 300 worker bees.
In spring the queen wakes up from her winter sleep and starts a brand new nest all by herself.
The queen keeps her eggs warm, using energy from nectar and honey.
Most asked questions about Yellow-faced bumblebee
?Where do yellow-faced bumblebees live?
In underground nests along the west coast of North America.
?How big is a yellow-faced bumblebee?
Workers are about 1 to 2 centimetres long, and the queen is a bit bigger.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus vosnesenskii
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Bombus vosnesenskii (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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