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Great Basin Bumble Bee

Bombus centralis

The Great Basin Bumble Bee is a fuzzy, friendly bee that loves to visit flowers. They help plants grow by spreading pollen while they collect nectar. These bees are important for our gardens and wildflowers!

Lebensraum: Mountain regions

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The Great Basin Bumble Bee has a fuzzy body, primarily yellow with a distinct black band between its wings on the thorax. Its abdomen is mostly yellow, often featuring a black band on the second segment and sometimes rusty orange on the final segments, making it quite striking.

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Great Basin Bumble Bee
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Great Basin Bumble Bee

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Many Great Basin Bumble Bees choose abandoned rodent burrows for their nests.

Queens wake up in early spring and start new colonies all by themselves!

These bees make tiny wax pots inside their nests to store nectar for food.

They are really good at remembering which flowers have the best nectar!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Buzz Pollination

Great Basin Bumble Bee can vibrate flowers at a special frequency to shake out hidden pollen, helping plants grow.

Fähigkeit

Internal Heater

Great Basin Bumble Bee can uncouple its wings and shiver flight muscles to generate heat, helping them fly in cool weather.

Fähigkeit

Pollen Backpacks

Great Basin Bumble Bee has special 'baskets' on its hind legs to pack and carry large amounts of pollen back to its nest.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
25-40 mm
Größe
10-25 mm
Lebenserwartung
14-365 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit
15 km/h
Anzahl der Beine
6
Koloniegröße
300

Ernährung und Fütterung

Great Basin Bumble Bees buzz around flowers sipping sweet nectar and collecting protein-rich pollen.

Altersunterschiede: Larvae are fed a mixture of pollen and nectar by worker bees.

Hauptnahrung

  • Nectar
  • Pollen
  • Lupine flowers
  • Sunflower flowers
  • Geranium flowers

Nahrungssuche

  • Foraging

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

pollinates

Silvery Lupine

Lupinus argenteus

Buzz pollination helps release pollen from these flowers.

pollinates

Common Sunflower

Helianthus annuus

Visits the large flower heads to collect pollen and nectar.

pollinates

Sticky Geranium

Geranium viscosissimum

An important nectar and pollen source in its habitat.

eaten by

Western Kingbird

Tyrannus verticalis

This bird catches flying insects, including bumble bees.

Merkmale

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Be gentle and stay calm if you see a bee. They usually won't bother you if you don't bother them.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von Great Basin Bumble Bee?

25-40 mm

Was ist der/die/das größe von Great Basin Bumble Bee?

10-25 mm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Great Basin Bumble Bee?

14-365 Tage

Was ist der/die/das fluggeschwindigkeit von Great Basin Bumble Bee?

15 km/h

Was frisst Great Basin Bumble Bee?

Great Basin Bumble Bees buzz around flowers sipping sweet nectar and collecting protein-rich pollen.

Wo findet man Great Basin Bumble Bee normalerweise?

Mountain regions

Wie jagt Great Basin Bumble Bee?

Foraging

Was ist der/die/das anzahl der Beine von Great Basin Bumble Bee?

6

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