They don't seem to hang out with other bees, they look different to other bees and I can't imagine that they live in hives with other bees. So are they completely different to bees?
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The bumble bee is related to the honey bee.  It is a flying insect of the genus Bombus in the family Apidae. Like the common honeybee, of which it is a relative, the bumblebee feeds on nectar and gathers pollen to feed its young. These creatures are beneficial to humans and the plant world alike, and tend to be larger than other members of the bee family. Most, but not all, bumblebee species are gentle.\n\nBumblebees are social insects that are characterized by a black and yellow striped body, a commonality among the majority of the species of Bombus; however, some species are known to have orange or even red on their bodies. Another distinguishing characteristic is a hairlike substance, called pile, that covers their entire body, making them appear and feel fuzzy. Queen and worker bumblebees can sting. Their sting is not barbed like that of the honeybee, so they can sting more than once.
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Bees live on their honey during the winter.  Many other insects do die, but only after laying eggs that will hatch in the spring.\n\nCheck this out:  http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/ythfacts/allyr/yf806.htm
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They do not exist in the universe.\nMaybe in our minds . . .
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as opposed to what? all GD honey is wild moron.\n\nok, "commercial" honey-bees are kept in a man made hive. it looks like a big GD box. \n\n"wild" honey- the bees live where they damn well please.
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When bees communicate to each other, they communicate the position of nearby flowers.  The directions are relative to the sun's position in the sky.  But the bees are able to communicate this, taking into account that the sun's position has changed in the time it took them to fly back to the hive!\n\nThat still blows me away.  There's so much we have to learn about the animal world.
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worker honey bee or bumble bee
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all the workers and the queen bee in a hive are female.\n\nwhen a new queen is hatched, the hive produces many male bees, known as drones.\n\nthe queen bee mates once, then the drones are taken outside the hive and their wings are stripped by the worker bees, cause the drones do nothing but mate, then eat the honey.
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i saw a swarm cross I 8 in Az in the middle of the night once ..... it was pretty amazing.. I lived in Vegas for a few years and never saw one tarantula in town... they are out in the desert but you dont have much to worry about....they are nocturnal and usually only come out at night and avoid ppl ... one year we can swarmed by crickets there
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see that seems correct to me.\nlook at it like this, any creature that has evolved from another creature, from what i know(mind you my knowledge is limited here) the creature they evolved from died out, so why are monkeys still around if we evolved from monkeys why are they still around???
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As they are social insects and they live by division of labor and work in unison. They are closely knit by pheromones.
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During the course of one queen bee it lays thousands of eggs during its life time which may spread around two years or so.During flower season when more nectar and pollen can be collected from flowers the queen becomes more active and lays more eggs. So during that season the colony becomes really big and the worker bees decide to split and they make queen cells by combining three cells into one and a four five queen cells may be formed and they feed them with royal gelly food. Just before the first new queen bee comes out of the cell the queen be which is already there may fly along with thousands of workers to another location and to build a new hive.Like this one or two more SWARMS may go and thereafter they may not\nallow more queens to come out and sometimes two queens may fight and one gets killed and other queen celss are destroyed.\nVery rarely when a queen bee is so old and is past egg laying capacity, it may be allowed to live in the same hive but the active young queen bee is the head and lays eggs etc.
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Bee= Male (the stinger)\n"gets friendly" with\nBird= Female
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I say we sacrifice them to the almighty eater of wasps .. (whatever it is that eats wasps)\nBut isnt an ark just alittle big for wasps.. plus they might get mad if we start movin em around.\n\n****You are killin me here.. Im gonna be laughin for days on this one.***
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the honey is food for the bee larvae. the bees themselves don't eat it. By nature bees are carnivores. Just look and an expired animal sometime. They harvest the nectar from the flower, condense it and vomit up the condensed nectar hence honey.
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I think their light-loving behavior has to do with mating. \nYou see, in the dark, it´s very difficult to get together with individuals of the same species, so evolution came up with a great idea: a universal rendez-vous for insects. \nBy moving towards light, the chances of meeting a nice partner climb up. And that is directly related to an enhanced ability to reproduce, the ideal mix of features for any trait to get evolutionarily fixed in a population.
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they are a strange creatures. Im not sure that even the girl you are talking about knows the answer to that one
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Sorry, I think they are mythical creatures.  Nice to think about, but not real.