Nevada Bumble Bee Images

Nevada Bumble Bee Images, Facts and Information:

• Bombus nevadensisNevada Bumble Bees are robust, fuzzy insects with rounded bodies, dense hair, and alternating black and yellow bands. They have broad heads, short antennae, and stout legs adapted for gathering pollen. Females are larger than males and have pollen baskets on their hind legs.
• Nevada Bumble Bees are found throughout the Great Basin and surrounding regions, including Nevada, eastern California, southern Idaho, Utah, and western Arizona. Nevada Bumble Bees inhabit high desert meadows, mountain foothills, grasslands, and open woodland areas. They are often seen visiting wildflowers, clover, and other blooming plants.
• Nevada Bumble Bees are important pollinators and feed on nectar while collecting pollen for their colonies. Their long tongues allow them to feed from deep, tubular flowers that many other bees cannot access.
• Female Nevada Bumble Bees establish small ground nests in abandoned rodent burrows or grassy tussocks. Colonies typically contain a single queen and a few dozen workers. At the end of the season, new queens mate and overwinter in soil or leaf litter until spring.
• Nevada Bumble Bees are often among the first bees active in early spring and can tolerate cooler temperatures than many other bee species.
• A group of bumble bees is called a “colony” or “swarm” of bumble bees.

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