Bumblebees don’t dance like honeybees and can’t communicate a precise location of food. However, they can recruit nestmates to the flowers. The worker who found a good food source is running excitedly, bumping into other bees in the nest and presenting samples of collected food to them.
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.
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?
Non-honey bees 