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36.

Experiments have shown that #bumblebees are theoretically capable of flying at altitudes higher than Mt. Everest (29,000 feet).
They have been observed in the wild at altitudes as high as 16,000 feet above sea level.
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34.

Bumblebees can recognise objects through touch.

Only a small number of species - humans, apes, dolphins, some fish and...#bumblebees can learn about an object with one sense and later identify it with another.
Fantastic #bees

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32.

Foraging #bumblebees gather nectar into their honeystomachs to carry it back to their nest.

The honeystomach can hold up to .20 ml and the equivalent of up to 90% of the body weight of the bee.

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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

31.

Bumblebees beat their wings at up to 240 beats per second and they fly at speeds around 4.5 metres per second/16 kms per hour.

Foraging #bumblebees have been recorded flying at speeds of up to 14 metres per second!

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30.

Bumblebees have to learn how to get nectar from flowers.
They will usually visit the same flowers every day as long as they keep finding nectar and pollen.
This is called flower or #pollinator constancy.

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If a single raised middle leg doesn’t warn you off a bumblebee will often raise her other middle leg too.
Persist and she may go belly up to reveal her stinger.
Males do likewise but are bluffing - they have no stinger!
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27.

Bumblebees get all of their food from flowers.
Nectar is usually found deep inside flowers - which come in all shapes and sizes.
Bumblebee tongues vary in length and this can determine which flowers they forage upon.
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#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

26.

Solitary Bees:
Account for over 90% of bee species.
Don’t live in colonies.
Don’t have a queen.
Don’t make honey/wax.
Aren’t aggressive.
Don’t swarm.
Rarely sting.
Vary in size but are usually smaller than #bumblebees.
#bees #pollinators
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#summer #August #dandelion

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25.

During hibernation #bumblebee queens avoid freezing to death by producing glycerol which acts like antifreeze preventing water in their bodies turning into ice crystals.

‘Nature never breaks her own laws.’
- da Vinci

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# 24

Pollination is the act of transferring pollen grains from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma.

Pollinators are animals that facilitate this transfer.

Bees are kick-ass #pollinators.

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#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

23.

Bumblebees leave a scent on flowers they visit which can be recognised by other bees thus saving them time and energy foraging already ‘empty’ flowers.

‘There are always flowers for those who want to see them.’
- Matiss
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#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

22.

Solitary Bee Lifecycle.
Quick Version!
Adults emerge in spring/summer.
Mate.
Male dies.
Female starts nest.
Lays up to 30 eggs in individual pods stocked with pollen and nectar.
Female dies.
Young pupate over winter.
Emerge in spring.
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20.

Foraging #bumblebees return to the nest with on average 25% of their body weight in pollen/nectar. Some #bees carry up to 75% of their body weight per trip!

‘Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.’
- Newton

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18.

Leafcutter #bees: solitary bees that do exactly what they say on the tin. The female cuts pieces from leaves to make individual nest pods for young.

‘And softly through
the altered air
Hurries a timid leaf’
- Emily Dickinson

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#solitarybees #education
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#environment #science

Sorry, busy till late.
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#summer
#wicklow
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#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

17.

#Dandelions are vital to bees.
Vast flowering season - February to November around here.
Nectar/pollen for hungry #bees/#hoverflies/#butterflies among others.
Cherish them.

‘A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees’
- Blake

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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

16.

Bees visit #flowers for nectar and pollen.
Nectar provides energy and nutrients. Pollen is a source of protein that is mostly fed to their young.

‘Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.’
- Henry Adams
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#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

13.

Bees have five eyes.
Two compound eyes on the side of the head and three simple eyes in between.

‘Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher’
- Wordsworth

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12.

Some plants make their pollen hard to get.
#bumblebees and some #solitarybees release this pollen by vibrating their flight muscles.

This is BUZZ POLLINATION.

Honey bees can’t do this.

‘The earth laughs in flowers’
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

11.

Keeping honey bees does NOT help our declining native wild bee populations.
In fact keeping honey bees means more bees competing for ever more precious forage.

‘Bees are for life not just for honey.’

- The Bee Guy

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#truth #facts #education #science
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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

10.

Some bee species carry #pollen collected from #flowers back to their nest or hive in pollen baskets - #corbiculae - located on their hind legs.

‘Everything in excess is opposed to nature.’

- Hippocrates

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#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

9.

Bees are a #vegan evolution of wasps - feeding on #nectar and #pollen collected from #flowers rather than on prey.

‘Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.’
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

8.

Only about 10% of bee species are social. The other 90% are solitary #bees. They live in individual nests, don’t have a queen and don’t make honey.

‘The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude’

- Voltaire
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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 311

A recent Finnish study which exposed #bumblebees to field realistic doses of the #glyphosate based #herbicide Roundup found that the bumblebees' fine-color discrimination and long-term memory were significantly impaired.
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