Bumble bees

1. Bumble bees By sefa sanci

2. bee What do bumble bees look like. ·2 sets of wings Fine breakable wings · ··Antenni It has a sting Black and white and yellow body

3. Bumble bees are insects Insects have 6 legs. Insects have 2 bodies and a head and wings. These animals are insects like bumble bees.

4. 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.

5. ` Food chain 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.

6. Habitat 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.

7. Differant types The bumble bee is not aggressive; they will ignore you and fly around collecting pollen and nectar.

8. Interesting facts Bumble bees have smelly feet so that other bumble bees can tell that the nectar has already been taken.