Bumblebee

Gardens, meadows, and other flowering areas; nests are often in soil cavities or abandoned small-animal burrows.

Adults feed on flower nectar and pollen; larvae are provisioned mainly with pollen.

Robust, fuzzy social bees that forage by day and pollinate through buzz pollination. Colonies are seasonal, usually nesting from spring through autumn.

Important pollinators of wild plants and crops. They can sting if handled or their nest is disturbed, but are generally not aggressive.