Is a bumblebee really a bee?
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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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Of course they can. I once bought a round of beer at a local bar, where I was served by a bee who was working part time as a barmaid. The bee overcharged me by £5. I don't even think it was a girl bee, but it was difficult to tell as the bar was quite dark. That was the last time I was stung by a bee in a bar though, as if I see a bee behind the bar in a pub, I just leave without buying a drink. Just remember, bees are untrustworthy bar stewards.
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A bee can calculate and communicate distance.
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Birds and bees? There are birds and bees? What do birds and bees do together?
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what they spin isn't random it is all in the structure. the way it is spun helps support the web and the same goes for bees. the honeycombs are built in an easy to use layout. they have no intelligence only instinct.
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Yes, and they make one the best honey!\n\nKiller bees been producing honey as they do today for at least 100 million years (since the Cretaceous period)*. Killer Bees produce honey as food stores for the hive during the long months of winter when flowers aren't blooming and therefore little or no nectar is available to them. European honey bees, genus Apis Mellifera, produce such an abundance of honey, far more than the hive can eat, that humans can harvest the excess. For this reason, European honey bees can be found in beekeeper's hives around the world!
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Bumble bee is reported in sanskrit literature in India to have its abode in lotus flowers. It is a large,black omnious looing insect that can bore wood easily but does no harm to the delicate petals of lotus.It makes distinct sound like an aeroplane flying far away from you.Its bite is nasty, so one should keep away from it.
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A whole lot of bees together?\n\nThat's a "SWARM."
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They buzz not by choice and by choice at the same time... Who wrote that  they buzz because of their wings beating is correct but bees and wasps can buzz in a different frequency and/or fly in determined angles to indicate food sources and to indicate danger!
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Nope, not all types of bees make honey! The eastern carpenter bee, alfalfa leafcutter bee, orchard mason bee, and the hornfaced bee are solitary bees, which means they don't live in hives with thousands of other bees. Each solitary bee is fertile, unlike the bees in hives in which only the queen bee and produce more bees. These types of bees don't produce honey or beeswax.\n\nHope this helps! I'm glad you're curious about these types of things.
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Disagree. "Gallop" is a word to describe motion in horses which could be applied to other quadrupeds.\n\nMoths fly... Bumblebees fly, even though their physics and physicality is all wrong.\n\nHumans think, but even mice have been shown to have rudimentary problem-solving abilities which involve thought.\n\nTherefore, I suggest that your proposition is false.
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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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Sorry, I think they are mythical creatures.  Nice to think about, but not real.
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Bees do not create honey; they are actually improving upon a plant product, nectar. The honey we eat is nectar that bees have repeatedly regurgitated and dehydrated.
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Yes, it's bumblebee.co.uk
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I agree with the posters who say they're just honeybees.  Hopefully they're not killer bees.  Please do not try to kill them.  If you aren't willing to let them stay, find out about getting the hive moved to a different spot.  Unless you're allergic or they hive is in your way, there isn't really a reason for you to bother them.
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A bee named Midas becomes obsessed with his part of the honeycomb looking better than all the other bees.  He spends all his time making sure his section is turned just right so that when the sun hits it the honey will glint like gold.  But since he has to stay right at the hive protecting his section all the time he does not do the hard work of gathering and collecting the pollen to bring back to the hive.  Soon his section is drained of honey and begins to dry up.  The rest of the hive complains to the queen bee and old Midas is kicked out like a. . . BUM-blebee.