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PAGE 3HAIRSPECIES
Related pages N. American cuckoo bumblebees - Is it a bumblebee? - Looks like a bumblebee - Other bees1, 2 There are 46 species of bumblebee in north America. The body lengths are in millimetres and do not include the antennae. The tongue lengths are given when known as this will help in ID as a short tongued bee cannot reach the nectar of a long corolla flower unless it is nectar robbing, and HOW YOU CAN HELP BUMBLEBEES How you can help bumblebees in your garden or window box. What kind of flowers bumblebees prefer. How to help bumblebee caught out by cold weather. Reasons why insecticide sprays are not good for the garden inthe long run
BUMBLEBEE NEST BOXES AND NEST SITES On this page, providing nest sites, making a nest box, food, siting your nest box, success and failure, nest box predators. Providing bumblebee nest sites. Bumblebees like to nest in warm, sheltered sites. Different species have differing nest preferences, however the easiest ones to provide for are the surface and above ground nesters. MINING BEES, MASON BEES, CARPENTER BEES, The photograph above is of a Xylocopa violacea hole, and below is the bee that made it. This bee holds the record for laying the largest egg of any insect. Carpenters are found in many parts of the world, and there is one very similar to this commonly seen in the USA. THE YEARLY LIFECYCLE OF THE BUMBLEBEE COLONY This page, and the pages linked from it show the yearly lifecycle of a bumblebee colony. You can either follow the lifecycle in chronological order by looking at all of the pages in turn, or you can skip to whatever part you are interested in by clicking the links below. BUMBLEBEE MATING, DEATH AND HIBERNATION; STAGE 4 IN THE On this page, Stage 4, males and new queens mate, the colony disintegrates, the old queen, workers and males die, and new queens hibernate. Related pages . Stage 1, the queen emerges from hibernation and starts new colony by herself.. Stage 2, workers (females) are produced and start to forage; the colony develops and grows.. Stage 3, unfertilised eggs (males) are laid and worker larva develop FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT BUMBLEBEE NESTS Frequently asked questions about bumblebee nests. What do you do if you find a bumblebee nest? How to prevent entry through airbricks? Howdo bees make honey?
PLANS FOR BUMBLEBEE NESTBOXES On this page I've drawn some plans for making inexpensive bumblebee nest boxes. The plans and designs are very simple, and can easily be adapted to suit whatever materials you have (coffee cans with plastic tops are a very good alternative, as is an old teapot). INSECTS THAT LOOK LIKE BUMBLEBEES On this page, carpenter bees - mason bees-honeybees - wasps - wood wasps, horntail - hoverflies - flies - moths Carpenter bees . Carpenter bees have powerful mandibles (jaws) that can dig tunnels in wood. Xylocopa violacea (above), a huge (20-23 mm long), black bee found in central and southern Europe nests in dead wood and digs a tunnel up to 30 cm long containing 10-15 cells.CUCKOO BUMBLEBEES
On this page, what is a cuckoo bumblebee? - differences between cuckoo bumblebees and queen and worker bumblebees. - U.K. cuckoo bumblebees - a whole lot more . What is a cuckoo bumblebee? A cuckoo bumblebee, like the bird it is named after, lays its eggs in another bumblebee’s nest and leaves the workers of that nest to rear theyoung.
BUMBLEBEES FOUND IN NORTH AMERICABUMBLEBEES FOUND IN NORTH AMERICAPAGE 3HAIRSPECIES
Related pages N. American cuckoo bumblebees - Is it a bumblebee? - Looks like a bumblebee - Other bees1, 2 There are 46 species of bumblebee in north America. The body lengths are in millimetres and do not include the antennae. The tongue lengths are given when known as this will help in ID as a short tongued bee cannot reach the nectar of a long corolla flower unless it is nectar robbing, and HOW YOU CAN HELP BUMBLEBEES How you can help bumblebees in your garden or window box. What kind of flowers bumblebees prefer. How to help bumblebee caught out by cold weather. Reasons why insecticide sprays are not good for the garden inthe long run
BUMBLEBEE NEST BOXES AND NEST SITES On this page, providing nest sites, making a nest box, food, siting your nest box, success and failure, nest box predators. Providing bumblebee nest sites. Bumblebees like to nest in warm, sheltered sites. Different species have differing nest preferences, however the easiest ones to provide for are the surface and above ground nesters. MINING BEES, MASON BEES, CARPENTER BEES, The photograph above is of a Xylocopa violacea hole, and below is the bee that made it. This bee holds the record for laying the largest egg of any insect. Carpenters are found in many parts of the world, and there is one very similar to this commonly seen in the USA. THE YEARLY LIFECYCLE OF THE BUMBLEBEE COLONY This page, and the pages linked from it show the yearly lifecycle of a bumblebee colony. You can either follow the lifecycle in chronological order by looking at all of the pages in turn, or you can skip to whatever part you are interested in by clicking the links below. BUMBLEBEE MATING, DEATH AND HIBERNATION; STAGE 4 IN THE On this page, Stage 4, males and new queens mate, the colony disintegrates, the old queen, workers and males die, and new queens hibernate. Related pages . Stage 1, the queen emerges from hibernation and starts new colony by herself.. Stage 2, workers (females) are produced and start to forage; the colony develops and grows.. Stage 3, unfertilised eggs (males) are laid and worker larva develop FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT BUMBLEBEE NESTS Frequently asked questions about bumblebee nests. What do you do if you find a bumblebee nest? How to prevent entry through airbricks? Howdo bees make honey?
PLANS FOR BUMBLEBEE NESTBOXES On this page I've drawn some plans for making inexpensive bumblebee nest boxes. The plans and designs are very simple, and can easily be adapted to suit whatever materials you have (coffee cans with plastic tops are a very good alternative, as is an old teapot). INSECTS THAT LOOK LIKE BUMBLEBEES On this page, carpenter bees - mason bees-honeybees - wasps - wood wasps, horntail - hoverflies - flies - moths Carpenter bees . Carpenter bees have powerful mandibles (jaws) that can dig tunnels in wood. Xylocopa violacea (above), a huge (20-23 mm long), black bee found in central and southern Europe nests in dead wood and digs a tunnel up to 30 cm long containing 10-15 cells.CUCKOO BUMBLEBEES
On this page, what is a cuckoo bumblebee? - differences between cuckoo bumblebees and queen and worker bumblebees. - U.K. cuckoo bumblebees - a whole lot more . What is a cuckoo bumblebee? A cuckoo bumblebee, like the bird it is named after, lays its eggs in another bumblebee’s nest and leaves the workers of that nest to rear theyoung.
WWW.BUMBLEBEE.ORG HOME PAGE The www.bumblebee.org home page. The natural history and ecology of bumblebees. What is a bumblebee. Where are bumblebees found. What is their body shape and different body parts. Bees and Einstein. links to more detailed pages. BUMBLEBEE NEST BOXES AND NEST SITES On this page, providing nest sites, making a nest box, food, siting your nest box, success and failure, nest box predators. Providing bumblebee nest sites. Bumblebees like to nest in warm, sheltered sites. Different species have differing nest preferences, however the easiest ones to provide for are the surface and above ground nesters. THE BUMBLEBEE BODY, OVERVIEW Skeleton. As with all insects the bumblebee has what is called an exoskeleton, i.e. its skeleton is on the outside and is made up of hard plates of chitin.Chitin is a nitrogenous polysaccharide insoluble in water, alcohol, dilute acids and digestive juices. So having an exoskeleton means that once a bumblebee has hatched out of its cocoon as an adult it cannot get any bigger.BOMBUS IMPATIENS
Bombus impatiens is one of the more common North American bumblebees, it can be found in Ontario, Maine, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, south to Florida, west to Michigan, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Wyoming. Body lengths, queens 21 - 23 mm, workers 9 - 14 mm,males 12 - 14 mm.
PLANS FOR BUMBLEBEE NESTBOXES On this page I've drawn some plans for making inexpensive bumblebee nest boxes. The plans and designs are very simple, and can easily be adapted to suit whatever materials you have (coffee cans with plastic tops are a very good alternative, as is an old teapot). BUMBLEBEE SYMBIONTS (PARASITES, MUTUALISTS AND COMMENSALS) Predation occurs when one animal eats other animals and kills them. The animal that is killed is called the prey and the animal that does the killing is called the predator.. Symbiosis. Bumblebee Symbionts means living together, and there are three kinds of symbiotic relationships between species: . Parasitism.Where the parasite receives some benefit from the host and by doing so harms the host. INSECTS THAT LOOK LIKE BUMBLEBEES On this page, carpenter bees - mason bees-honeybees - wasps - wood wasps, horntail - hoverflies - flies - moths Carpenter bees . Carpenter bees have powerful mandibles (jaws) that can dig tunnels in wood. Xylocopa violacea (above), a huge (20-23 mm long), black bee found in central and southern Europe nests in dead wood and digs a tunnel up to 30 cm long containing 10-15 cells.BUMBLEBEE WINGS
On this page, wing beats, wing condition and age, when a bumblebee can and cannot fly, warming up the flight muscles, flight speed, weight, distances flown Wings. Bumblebees have four wings, the two rear wings are small and usually attached to the front wings by a row of hooks called hamuli or hamulae (see the diagram and photographs below) which catch on to ridge on the lower margin of theCUCKOO BUMBLEBEES
On this page, what is a cuckoo bumblebee? - differences between cuckoo bumblebees and queen and worker bumblebees. - U.K. cuckoo bumblebees - a whole lot more . What is a cuckoo bumblebee? A cuckoo bumblebee, like the bird it is named after, lays its eggs in another bumblebee’s nest and leaves the workers of that nest to rear theyoung.
HAPLODIPLOIDY AND RELATEDNESS IN BUMBLEBEES. Altruistic behaviour in social insects. All social bees, wasps and ants - which I will refer to as just bees from now on - have workers that do not go on to produce offspring, but help their sexual sisters and brothers to produce offspring. Now this altruistic behaviour does not seem to make any sense, and it did cause Charles Darwin a lot of worry, so you are in good company if it confuses MINING BEES, MASON BEES, CARPENTER BEES, The photograph above is of a Xylocopa violacea hole, and below is the bee that made it. This bee holds the record for laying the largest egg of any insect. Carpenters are found in many parts of the world, and there is one very similar to this commonly seen in the USA. HOW YOU CAN HELP BUMBLEBEES How you can help bumblebees in your garden or window box. What kind of flowers bumblebees prefer. How to help bumblebee caught out by cold weather. Reasons why insecticide sprays are not good for the garden inthe long run
THE YEARLY LIFECYCLE OF THE BUMBLEBEE COLONY This page, and the pages linked from it show the yearly lifecycle of a bumblebee colony. You can either follow the lifecycle in chronological order by looking at all of the pages in turn, or you can skip to whatever part you are interested in by clicking the links below. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT BUMBLEBEE BEHAVIOUR Frequently Asked Questions about bumblebee behaviour. What to do if a bumblebee cannot fly, what bumblebees eat, finding bumblebees in the house, bees on/around the deck, pollination . BUMBLEBEE MATING, DEATH AND HIBERNATION; STAGE 4 IN THE On this page, Stage 4, males and new queens mate, the colony disintegrates, the old queen, workers and males die, and new queens hibernate. Related pages . Stage 1, the queen emerges from hibernation and starts new colony by herself.. Stage 2, workers (females) are produced and start to forage; the colony develops and grows.. Stage 3, unfertilised eggs (males) are laid and worker larva develop INSECTS THAT LOOK LIKE BUMBLEBEES On this page, carpenter bees - mason bees-honeybees - wasps - wood wasps, horntail - hoverflies - flies - moths Carpenter bees . Carpenter bees have powerful mandibles (jaws) that can dig tunnels in wood. Xylocopa violacea (above), a huge (20-23 mm long), black bee found in central and southern Europe nests in dead wood and digs a tunnel up to 30 cm long containing 10-15 cells.BUMBLEBEE WINGS
On this page, wing beats, wing condition and age, when a bumblebee can and cannot fly, warming up the flight muscles, flight speed, weight, distances flown Wings. Bumblebees have four wings, the two rear wings are small and usually attached to the front wings by a row of hooks called hamuli or hamulae (see the diagram and photographs below) which catch on to ridge on the lower margin of the PLANS FOR BUMBLEBEE NESTBOXES On this page I've drawn some plans for making inexpensive bumblebee nest boxes. The plans and designs are very simple, and can easily be adapted to suit whatever materials you have (coffee cans with plastic tops are a very good alternative, as is an old teapot).CUCKOO BUMBLEBEES
On this page, what is a cuckoo bumblebee? - differences between cuckoo bumblebees and queen and worker bumblebees. - U.K. cuckoo bumblebees - a whole lot more . What is a cuckoo bumblebee? A cuckoo bumblebee, like the bird it is named after, lays its eggs in another bumblebee’s nest and leaves the workers of that nest to rear theyoung.
MINING BEES, MASON BEES, CARPENTER BEES, The photograph above is of a Xylocopa violacea hole, and below is the bee that made it. This bee holds the record for laying the largest egg of any insect. Carpenters are found in many parts of the world, and there is one very similar to this commonly seen in the USA. HOW YOU CAN HELP BUMBLEBEES How you can help bumblebees in your garden or window box. What kind of flowers bumblebees prefer. How to help bumblebee caught out by cold weather. Reasons why insecticide sprays are not good for the garden inthe long run
THE YEARLY LIFECYCLE OF THE BUMBLEBEE COLONY This page, and the pages linked from it show the yearly lifecycle of a bumblebee colony. You can either follow the lifecycle in chronological order by looking at all of the pages in turn, or you can skip to whatever part you are interested in by clicking the links below. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT BUMBLEBEE BEHAVIOUR Frequently Asked Questions about bumblebee behaviour. What to do if a bumblebee cannot fly, what bumblebees eat, finding bumblebees in the house, bees on/around the deck, pollination . BUMBLEBEE MATING, DEATH AND HIBERNATION; STAGE 4 IN THE On this page, Stage 4, males and new queens mate, the colony disintegrates, the old queen, workers and males die, and new queens hibernate. Related pages . Stage 1, the queen emerges from hibernation and starts new colony by herself.. Stage 2, workers (females) are produced and start to forage; the colony develops and grows.. Stage 3, unfertilised eggs (males) are laid and worker larva develop INSECTS THAT LOOK LIKE BUMBLEBEES On this page, carpenter bees - mason bees-honeybees - wasps - wood wasps, horntail - hoverflies - flies - moths Carpenter bees . Carpenter bees have powerful mandibles (jaws) that can dig tunnels in wood. Xylocopa violacea (above), a huge (20-23 mm long), black bee found in central and southern Europe nests in dead wood and digs a tunnel up to 30 cm long containing 10-15 cells.BUMBLEBEE WINGS
On this page, wing beats, wing condition and age, when a bumblebee can and cannot fly, warming up the flight muscles, flight speed, weight, distances flown Wings. Bumblebees have four wings, the two rear wings are small and usually attached to the front wings by a row of hooks called hamuli or hamulae (see the diagram and photographs below) which catch on to ridge on the lower margin of the PLANS FOR BUMBLEBEE NESTBOXES On this page I've drawn some plans for making inexpensive bumblebee nest boxes. The plans and designs are very simple, and can easily be adapted to suit whatever materials you have (coffee cans with plastic tops are a very good alternative, as is an old teapot).CUCKOO BUMBLEBEES
On this page, what is a cuckoo bumblebee? - differences between cuckoo bumblebees and queen and worker bumblebees. - U.K. cuckoo bumblebees - a whole lot more . What is a cuckoo bumblebee? A cuckoo bumblebee, like the bird it is named after, lays its eggs in another bumblebee’s nest and leaves the workers of that nest to rear theyoung.
HAPLODIPLOIDY AND RELATEDNESS IN BUMBLEBEES. Haplodiploidy and relatedness in bumblebees. Why sister bumblebees share 75% of their genes with each other and not 50% as would be expected. And why male bumblebees are fatherless. BUMBLEBEES FOUND IN NORTH AMERICA Related pages N. American cuckoo bumblebees - Is it a bumblebee? - Looks like a bumblebee - Other bees1, 2 There are 46 species of bumblebee in north America. The body lengths are in millimetres and do not include the antennae. The tongue lengths are given when known as this will help in ID as a short tongued bee cannot reach the nectar of a long corolla flower unless it is nectar robbing, and BUMBLEBEE NEST BOXES AND NEST SITES On this page, providing nest sites, making a nest box, food, siting your nest box, success and failure, nest box predators. Providing bumblebee nest sites. Bumblebees like to nest in warm, sheltered sites. Different species have differing nest preferences, however the easiest ones to provide for are the surface and above ground nesters. BOMBUS LAPIDARIUS, THE RED TAILED BUMBLEBEE Bombus lapidarius, Red tailed bumblebee overview Bombus lapidarius is probably the most easily recognised species with its black body and bright orange tail. Although the queen's body is as long as that of B. terrestris she is not as heavily built (see below). Queens can BOMBUS HORTORUM, THE GARDEN BUMBLEBEE General description - male patrolling circuits - long, narrow head - long tongue - long legs - tendency towards baldness - colony size and nesting sites - a whole lot more. General description of Bombus hortorum the Garden bumblebee . Bombus hortorum has a long head and a slimmer body than B. terrestris/lucorum.While flying between flowers that are close together, e.g. foxgloves the bee often FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT BUMBLEBEE NESTS Frequently asked questions about bumblebee nests. What do you do if you find a bumblebee nest? How to prevent entry through airbricks? Howdo bees make honey?
CUCKOO BUMBLEBEES
On this page, what is a cuckoo bumblebee? - differences between cuckoo bumblebees and queen and worker bumblebees. - U.K. cuckoo bumblebees - a whole lot more . What is a cuckoo bumblebee? A cuckoo bumblebee, like the bird it is named after, lays its eggs in another bumblebee’s nest and leaves the workers of that nest to rear theyoung.
SWEAT BEES, AND LEAFCUTTING BEES Leaf cutting bees.. These are the bees that cut holes and semi-circles out of rose leaves, and other leaves, to line the cells in their nest. The holes are around 10 - HAPLODIPLOIDY AND RELATEDNESS IN BUMBLEBEES. Altruistic behaviour in social insects. All social bees, wasps and ants - which I will refer to as just bees from now on - have workers that do not go on to produce offspring, but help their sexual sisters and brothers to produce offspring. Now this altruistic behaviour does not seem to make any sense, and it did cause Charles Darwin a lot of worry, so you are in good company if it confusesDICTYOPTERA
Dictyoptera fast facts. Large or medium sized insects. They can be separated into two sub orders, Blattodea (cockroaches), and Mantodea (mantids). Some books include the Isoptera (termites) in this order. They have two pairs of wings, but the front pair is leathery and held flat over the body when at rest.SPIDER POEMS
Little Miss Muffet. Little Miss Muffet Sat on her tuffet Eating her curds and whey There came a big spider And sat down beside her And frightened Miss Muffet away. MINING BEES, MASON BEES, CARPENTER BEES, The photograph above is of a Xylocopa violacea hole, and below is the bee that made it. This bee holds the record for laying the largest egg of any insect. Carpenters are found in many parts of the world, and there is one very similar to this commonly seen in the USA. HOW YOU CAN HELP BUMBLEBEES How you can help bumblebees in your garden or window box. What kind of flowers bumblebees prefer. How to help bumblebee caught out by cold weather. Reasons why insecticide sprays are not good for the garden inthe long run
THE YEARLY LIFECYCLE OF THE BUMBLEBEE COLONY This page, and the pages linked from it show the yearly lifecycle of a bumblebee colony. You can either follow the lifecycle in chronological order by looking at all of the pages in turn, or you can skip to whatever part you are interested in by clicking the links below. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT BUMBLEBEE BEHAVIOUR Frequently Asked Questions about bumblebee behaviour. What to do if a bumblebee cannot fly, what bumblebees eat, finding bumblebees in the house, bees on/around the deck, pollination . BUMBLEBEE MATING, DEATH AND HIBERNATION; STAGE 4 IN THE On this page, Stage 4, males and new queens mate, the colony disintegrates, the old queen, workers and males die, and new queens hibernate. Related pages . Stage 1, the queen emerges from hibernation and starts new colony by herself.. Stage 2, workers (females) are produced and start to forage; the colony develops and grows.. Stage 3, unfertilised eggs (males) are laid and worker larva develop INSECTS THAT LOOK LIKE BUMBLEBEES On this page, carpenter bees - mason bees-honeybees - wasps - wood wasps, horntail - hoverflies - flies - moths Carpenter bees . Carpenter bees have powerful mandibles (jaws) that can dig tunnels in wood. Xylocopa violacea (above), a huge (20-23 mm long), black bee found in central and southern Europe nests in dead wood and digs a tunnel up to 30 cm long containing 10-15 cells.BUMBLEBEE WINGS
On this page, wing beats, wing condition and age, when a bumblebee can and cannot fly, warming up the flight muscles, flight speed, weight, distances flown Wings. Bumblebees have four wings, the two rear wings are small and usually attached to the front wings by a row of hooks called hamuli or hamulae (see the diagram and photographs below) which catch on to ridge on the lower margin of the PLANS FOR BUMBLEBEE NESTBOXES On this page I've drawn some plans for making inexpensive bumblebee nest boxes. The plans and designs are very simple, and can easily be adapted to suit whatever materials you have (coffee cans with plastic tops are a very good alternative, as is an old teapot).CUCKOO BUMBLEBEES
On this page, what is a cuckoo bumblebee? - differences between cuckoo bumblebees and queen and worker bumblebees. - U.K. cuckoo bumblebees - a whole lot more . What is a cuckoo bumblebee? A cuckoo bumblebee, like the bird it is named after, lays its eggs in another bumblebee’s nest and leaves the workers of that nest to rear theyoung.
HAPLODIPLOIDY AND RELATEDNESS IN BUMBLEBEES. Haplodiploidy and relatedness in bumblebees. Why sister bumblebees share 75% of their genes with each other and not 50% as would be expected. And why male bumblebees are fatherless. MINING BEES, MASON BEES, CARPENTER BEES, The photograph above is of a Xylocopa violacea hole, and below is the bee that made it. This bee holds the record for laying the largest egg of any insect. Carpenters are found in many parts of the world, and there is one very similar to this commonly seen in the USA. HOW YOU CAN HELP BUMBLEBEES How you can help bumblebees in your garden or window box. What kind of flowers bumblebees prefer. How to help bumblebee caught out by cold weather. Reasons why insecticide sprays are not good for the garden inthe long run
THE YEARLY LIFECYCLE OF THE BUMBLEBEE COLONY This page, and the pages linked from it show the yearly lifecycle of a bumblebee colony. You can either follow the lifecycle in chronological order by looking at all of the pages in turn, or you can skip to whatever part you are interested in by clicking the links below. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT BUMBLEBEE BEHAVIOUR Frequently Asked Questions about bumblebee behaviour. What to do if a bumblebee cannot fly, what bumblebees eat, finding bumblebees in the house, bees on/around the deck, pollination . BUMBLEBEE MATING, DEATH AND HIBERNATION; STAGE 4 IN THE On this page, Stage 4, males and new queens mate, the colony disintegrates, the old queen, workers and males die, and new queens hibernate. Related pages . Stage 1, the queen emerges from hibernation and starts new colony by herself.. Stage 2, workers (females) are produced and start to forage; the colony develops and grows.. Stage 3, unfertilised eggs (males) are laid and worker larva develop INSECTS THAT LOOK LIKE BUMBLEBEES On this page, carpenter bees - mason bees-honeybees - wasps - wood wasps, horntail - hoverflies - flies - moths Carpenter bees . Carpenter bees have powerful mandibles (jaws) that can dig tunnels in wood. Xylocopa violacea (above), a huge (20-23 mm long), black bee found in central and southern Europe nests in dead wood and digs a tunnel up to 30 cm long containing 10-15 cells.BUMBLEBEE WINGS
On this page, wing beats, wing condition and age, when a bumblebee can and cannot fly, warming up the flight muscles, flight speed, weight, distances flown Wings. Bumblebees have four wings, the two rear wings are small and usually attached to the front wings by a row of hooks called hamuli or hamulae (see the diagram and photographs below) which catch on to ridge on the lower margin of the PLANS FOR BUMBLEBEE NESTBOXES On this page I've drawn some plans for making inexpensive bumblebee nest boxes. The plans and designs are very simple, and can easily be adapted to suit whatever materials you have (coffee cans with plastic tops are a very good alternative, as is an old teapot).CUCKOO BUMBLEBEES
On this page, what is a cuckoo bumblebee? - differences between cuckoo bumblebees and queen and worker bumblebees. - U.K. cuckoo bumblebees - a whole lot more . What is a cuckoo bumblebee? A cuckoo bumblebee, like the bird it is named after, lays its eggs in another bumblebee’s nest and leaves the workers of that nest to rear theyoung.
HAPLODIPLOIDY AND RELATEDNESS IN BUMBLEBEES. Haplodiploidy and relatedness in bumblebees. Why sister bumblebees share 75% of their genes with each other and not 50% as would be expected. And why male bumblebees are fatherless. BUMBLEBEES FOUND IN NORTH AMERICA Related pages N. American cuckoo bumblebees - Is it a bumblebee? - Looks like a bumblebee - Other bees1, 2 There are 46 species of bumblebee in north America. The body lengths are in millimetres and do not include the antennae. The tongue lengths are given when known as this will help in ID as a short tongued bee cannot reach the nectar of a long corolla flower unless it is nectar robbing, and BUMBLEBEE NEST BOXES AND NEST SITES On this page, providing nest sites, making a nest box, food, siting your nest box, success and failure, nest box predators. Providing bumblebee nest sites. Bumblebees like to nest in warm, sheltered sites. Different species have differing nest preferences, however the easiest ones to provide for are the surface and above ground nesters. BOMBUS HORTORUM, THE GARDEN BUMBLEBEE General description - male patrolling circuits - long, narrow head - long tongue - long legs - tendency towards baldness - colony size and nesting sites - a whole lot more. General description of Bombus hortorum the Garden bumblebee . Bombus hortorum has a long head and a slimmer body than B. terrestris/lucorum.While flying between flowers that are close together, e.g. foxgloves the bee often BOMBUS LAPIDARIUS, THE RED TAILED BUMBLEBEE Bombus lapidarius, Red tailed bumblebee overview Bombus lapidarius is probably the most easily recognised species with its black body and bright orange tail. Although the queen's body is as long as that of B. terrestris she is not as heavily built (see below). Queens can FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT BUMBLEBEE NESTS Frequently asked questions about bumblebee nests. What do you do if you find a bumblebee nest? How to prevent entry through airbricks? Howdo bees make honey?
CUCKOO BUMBLEBEES
On this page, what is a cuckoo bumblebee? - differences between cuckoo bumblebees and queen and worker bumblebees. - U.K. cuckoo bumblebees - a whole lot more . What is a cuckoo bumblebee? A cuckoo bumblebee, like the bird it is named after, lays its eggs in another bumblebee’s nest and leaves the workers of that nest to rear theyoung.
SWEAT BEES, AND LEAFCUTTING BEES Leaf cutting bees.. These are the bees that cut holes and semi-circles out of rose leaves, and other leaves, to line the cells in their nest. The holes are around 10 - HAPLODIPLOIDY AND RELATEDNESS IN BUMBLEBEES. Altruistic behaviour in social insects. All social bees, wasps and ants - which I will refer to as just bees from now on - have workers that do not go on to produce offspring, but help their sexual sisters and brothers to produce offspring. Now this altruistic behaviour does not seem to make any sense, and it did cause Charles Darwin a lot of worry, so you are in good company if it confusesDICTYOPTERA
Large or medium sized insects. They can be separated into two sub orders, Blattodea (cockroaches), and Mantodea (mantids). Some books include the Isoptera (termites) in this order.; They have two pairs of wings, but the front pair is leathery and held flat over the body whenat rest.
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WWW.BUMBLEBEE.ORG HOME PAGE Home - Body - Species - Lifecycle - Help bumblebees - Behaviour - Info./Links - FAQ Welcome to WWW.BUMBLEBEE.ORG. The menu above will take you to the major sections of the web site. If you are not sure which page you should be looking at try the search box at the bottom of this, and every page. On this page what is a bumblebee? - Einstein - where are bumblebees found? - a summer following bumblebees. WHAT IS A BUMBLEBEE? Bumblebees are large, hairy social insects with a lazy buzz and clumsy, bumbling flight. Many of them are black and yellow, and along with ladybirds and butterflies are perhaps the only insects that almost everyone likes. Go to the body pages for more about parts of the body, or the behaviour pages to learn why they do what they do, or the is it a bumblebee page to find out if it is abumblebee at all.
Queen and worker bumblebees can sting, but in all my years of working with them I have yet to be stung. For photographs and more on stings go to the sting page . It is believed that the earliest fossilized bumblebee dates from the Oligocene, around 30 million years ago, today there are around 300 bumblebee is the world. Go to the species pages to see the different species of bumblebees alive today in northern Europe and North America . There are also pages of bees that are not bumblebees , and a page of insects that are frequently mistaken for bumblebees . And finally a page where you can go through a checklist to see if the insect you have is a bumblebee . The life cycle pages will take you through the life of a bumblebee colony including images of nests , and then the help bumblebee pages will show you what you can do to help the bumblebees that live near you, and the predators page will show you what enemies the bumblebees have. Finally, I've made a few pages where frequently asked questions and their answers are. There is also a page list.
BEES AND EINSTEIN
It has been widely reported that Einstein said that without bees to pollinate our food crops humans would die off in just 4 years. Apparently Einstein never said this at all. It is just another urban myth. However if bees do die off it is fairly certain that life as we know it will cease with in a short time, and that there will be far fewer humans around, as there will be so much less for them to eat. So a world without bees will probably also be a world with far fewerhumans.
For more on what we are doing to our world you can read my rant on global warming and pollution at the bottom of the Invertebrate page.
WHERE ARE BUMBLEBEES FOUND? Bumblebees are found mainly in northern temperate regions, though there are a few native South American species and New Zealand has some naturalised species that were introduced around 100 years ago to pollinate red clover. They range much further north than honey bees, and colonies can be found on Ellesmere Island in northern Canada, only 880 km from the north pole! With the recent popularity of using bumblebees in glasshouse pollination they will probably be found in most parts of the world before long (see below), especially _Bombus terrestris _ which seems to be the most popular species sold for this purpose. Recently there have been proposals to introduce bumblebees into Australia to pollinate crops in glasshouses. Now, though I dearly love bumblebees, I do think that this might not be a very good idea. No matter what security measures are taken, mated queens WILL escape eventually and that will probably lead to their establishment in the wild. And yet another non-native invasion of a country that has suffered more than most from such things. This invasion may or may not be benign, but isn't it better to err on the side of caution? Apparently there are already colonies of Bombus terrestris on Tasmania, so I suppose it is now only a matter of time before theyreach the mainland.
A SUMMER SPENT FOLLOWING BUMBLEBEES Pink38 is the name of the bumblebee pictured above. I caught and marked her just after 10 o'clock on the morning of 4th August 1995 while she was foraging on _Cirsium arvense_ (thistle). I saw her another 10 times over the next few days, always on the same clump of thistles, or on a nearby clump of _Centaurea nigra_(knapweed).
Pink38 wasn't special in any way. I marked, measured tongue length, head length and width of 232 bumblebees between the 2nd and 6th of August 1995, and saw 58.6% again at least once. A week or two later, after I'd finished all the work for my BSc Hons thesis, I went out with my camera to find the lane still full of bumblebees with numbers on their backs. Pink38 was just outside the door as usual, on her clump of thistles, so I took her photograph. Everything you read on this site stems from that summer measuring tongue lengths, marking, following and recording flowers visited by bumblebees foraging in a farm lane in North East Scotland. I owe it all to the good nature of a few hundred bumblebees who tolerated me disturbing them while they worked. Very few of "my" bumblebees got angry at my intrusion in their lives. If you think I am being silly, after all how could I know when a bumblebee was getting annoyed with me, well, visit the feeling threatened and the angry buzz sections, and you, too, will be able to tell when a bumblebee wants you to back off. Bumblebee.org (C) 1997 - 2019 contact/cookie info.
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