Transcript Bumblebee Discovery

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What do bumble bees look like.
· 2 sets of wings
Fine breakable wings
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Antenni
It has a sting
Black and white and yellow body
Insects have 6 legs.
Insects have 2 bodies and
a head and wings.
These animals are insects like bumble bees.
Life cycle
Bumble bees live in a nest of up to 400 bees, ruled by a queen.
After hibernating all winter,the queen lays eggs in the summer.
She sits on the eggs and incubates them by shivering her flight muscles to
make enough heat to keep them close to 30oC.
These eggs develop into the female worker bees, whose job it is to feed and
nurture the colony.
At the end of the summer the queen makes male babies, along with new
queens.
After mating, the males die off and so does the old queen
and workers. Only the new queens survive to hibernate
through the winter and then they start nests of their own
the following Spring.
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Bumble bees eat nectar and pollen and may fly over a mile from
their nest to find food.
Birds like the spotted fly catcher eat bumble bees they don't have many
predators.
Bumble bees need to live where there are flowers they can
collect nectar from. Flowers like clover are very good for
bumble bees.
They nest in soil, leaves and compost heaps.
Worker bumble bees pollinate clovers and many other flowers,
the nectar and pollen they collect is used to feed the young.
Bumble bees make honey too but only enough to feed the babies
The bumble bee is not aggressive; they will ignore you and
fly around collecting pollen and nectar.
Bumble bees have smelly feet so that
other bumble bees can tell that the nectar
has already been taken.