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!

Hábitat: Mountain regions

Aspecto

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

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Datos interesantes

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!

Habilidades especiales

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

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

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

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 25-40 mm
Tamaño: 10-25 mm
Esperanza de vida: 14-365 días
Velocidad de vuelo: 15 km/h
Cantidad de patas: 6
Tamaño de la colonia: 300

Dieta y alimentación

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

Diferencias por edad: Larvae are fed a mixture of pollen and nectar by worker bees.

Alimentos principales

Nectar
Pollen
Lupine flowers
Sunflower flowers
Geranium flowers

Método de búsqueda

Foraging

Conexiones ecológicas

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.

Rasgos

Peludo

Peludo describe a los animales que poseen una cubierta densa de pelo o pelaje suave.

Social

Los animales sociales viven en grupos organizados, cooperando para obtener beneficios de supervivencia como la búsqueda de alimento, la defensa y la cría de descendencia.

Herbívoro

Este rasgo caracteriza a los organismos cuya dieta consiste total o principalmente en material vegetal.

Imán para polinizadores

Describe plantas que son particularmente atractivas y beneficiosas para una amplia variedad de organismos polinizadores.

Montaña

Este rasgo de hábitat identifica a las especies que se encuentran en regiones montañosas, caracterizadas por su gran altitud, pendientes pronunciadas y zonas climáticas variables.