Bumblebee
Bumblebee
(bombus)
We hope you are enjoying our nature trail!
The post you’ve found has a raised picture of a bumblebee. If you place some paper over this and then scribble all over it with a crayon, you will be able to take home a copy of this picture to keep.
The bumblebee in the photograph here is a red-tailed bumblebee called an early bumblebee (bombus pratorum). It’s a worker bee and so it is female.
See if you can answer some questions about bumblebees – or jump straight to the answers (here).
- Do bumblebees make honey?
- How many different species of bumblebee live in the UK?
- How many wings does a bumblebee have?
- How many eyes does a bumblebee have?
- Can a bumble bee sting?
- Where do bumblebees live?
- What do bumblebees collect?
- Why are bumblebees so useful to humans?
- What other species of bee can you name?
- What differences are there between bumblebees and honey bees?
- How can you help look after bumblebees?
You can find out lots more about bumblebees from the Bumblebee Conservation Trust. You can even help them in their bid to conserve bumblebees by signing up to their BeeWalk which is a national monitoring scheme.
Other interesting articles/videos on bumblebees:
https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/lifecycle/ a lovely illustrated account of the lifecylcle of the bumblebee and of the cuckoo bumblebee lifecycle … Very interesting!!
https://www.countryfile.com/wildlife/the-life-cycle-of-a-bumblebee-explained/
https://www.biodiversitywales.org.uk/Bumblebees –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-o6e57AEGo – how a bumble bee generates heat on a cold morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gysdWdZIBk – a peek inside a bumblebee nest