Skull Island Blue Bumblebee

Bombus caeruleum skulla

Skull Island Blue Bumblebee is a small 1 inch long bumblebee with shiny blue fuzz ringed by black stripes. The Blue Bumblebee specializes in the pollination of predatory plants found throughout Skull Island, it safely achieves this through a pheromone it produces that halts the chemical process that would usually trigger the plant to snatch up the visiting insect. This has given Skull Island’s only bee species an uncontested food source that the pollinating butterflies, moths, flies and wasps can’t access. The hive structure of Skull Island Blue Bumblebees are no different from other bee species with only two key exceptions, exception one is the addition of a second queen, both queens, which grow up to 3 inches long, lay eggs, however if both queens are present in the hive one queen’s eggs will hatch into workers and the other’s will hatch into the second exception, the warriors. Warriors rival the queens in size, being around 2 inches long and possess larger jaws and stingers that do not rip off after one use. A queen must be fed a diet higher in protein to produce warrior eggs but if one queen is lost the remaining queen will alternate between the diet of a “worker queen” and the diet of a “warrior queen”

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Tribe: Bombini
Genus: Bombus
Species: B. caeruleum skulla