Common eastern bumblebee
The common eastern bumblebee is a fluffy black bumblebee with a yellow middle. It is the bumblebee people see most often in eastern North America. It is a very busy helper that carries pollen from flower to flower.
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Fun facts
Its nest is hidden underground, and a long tunnel leads down to it.
One nest can hold more than 450 bees, and most of them are workers.
Smaller workers stay in the middle of the nest and feed the babies. Bigger ones go out to collect food and guard the nest.
Farmers keep these bumblebees in greenhouses to help their plants make fruit.
Males are easy to spot because they have a yellow face.
Most asked questions about Common eastern bumblebee
?Where do common eastern bumblebees nest?
Underground, in fields and woods, with a tunnel leading to the nest.
?How big is a common eastern bumblebee?
Workers are about 1 to 1.5 centimetres long. Queens can be over 2 centimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus impatiens
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Bombus impatiens (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 round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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