Category: cartoons

• Diet

  

  June 8, 2023

  bee, bees, insects, nature, wild bees, wildbees

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• Six-toothed bumblebee

  Bombus wurflenii’s Polish name is “six-toothed bumblebee” – this refers to its toothy mandibles. It is one of the species which frequently make holes in some flowers, in order to rob nectar from them. The females often fly in the bad wether and even rain which is very unusual for a bee.

  

  June 8, 2023

  bee, bees, bumblebee, insects, nature, wild bees, wildbees

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• Feeling alone

  Bumblebee queens emerge from their natal nests in summer, then almost immediately mate and seek for overwintering place. When they emerge next spring, they are alone – their mother, sisters and brothers didn’t survive winter. How might they feel about that?

  

  June 8, 2023

  bee, bees, bumblebee, insects, nature, wild bees, wildbees

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• Buzz

  Bumblebees are known for their “buzzing” behaviour – they vibrate some plants, like tomato, to effectively release pollen from poricidal anthers. (They are not the only bees which can do buzz pollination, though.)

  

  June 8, 2023

  bee, bees, bumblebee, insects, nature, wild bees, wildbees

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• Can we play?

  Bees from the genus Anthidium use hairs scratched from the surface of some plants to line their nests. Female shapes the collected hairs into a woolly ball and returns with it to her nest.

  

  June 8, 2023

  Anthidium, bee, bees, insects, nature, wild bees, wildbees

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• Big dreams

  Nomioides is one of the smallest bee genera in Europe. Nomioides minutissimus, the only Polish species of this genus, is just 3-5 mm long.

  

  June 8, 2023

  bee, bees, insects, nature, Nomioides, wild bees, wildbees

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