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Bombus transversalis is a bumblebee specifically native to the Amazon Basin. [2] [3] [4] It is most notable for its surface-level colonies which are built by the workers on the rainforest floor. Unlike its relatives, B. transversalis is able to thrive in a humid climate and fend off a wide range of predators because of its resilient nests.
Scientists in the UK have confirmed that bumble bees, just like humans and dogs, like to play with balls. This video shows the bees playing with little wooden balls, making them the first ...
Bombus polaris is a common Arctic bumblebee species. [1] B. polaris is one of two bumblebees that live above the Arctic Circle. [1] The other is its social parasite Bombus hyperboreus. [1] B. polaris is a social bee that can survive at near freezing temperatures. [1] It has developed multiple adaptations to live in such cold temperatures.
However, Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bees This social parasite is native to 15 states across the U.S. and obliges other bee species to raise its offspring. A New Law Protects Two Beloved Species ...
A bumblebee (or bumble bee, bumble-bee, or humble-bee) is any of over 250 species in the genus Bombus, part of Apidae, one of the bee families. This genus is the only extant group in the tribe Bombini, though a few extinct related genera (e.g., Calyptapis) are known from fossils.
Bombus terrestris, the buff-tailed bumblebee or large earth bumblebee, is one of the most numerous bumblebee species in Europe. It is one of the main species used in greenhouse pollination , and so can be found in many countries and areas where it is not native, such as Tasmania . [ 2 ]
Scientists can now import pollinators, such as bumblebees, where there might be a shortage of pollinators. In New Zealand, the red clover plant population was restored when bumblebees were imported from Europe to help with the pollination. Maintaining red clover population in New Zealand at the time was critical to the country's crop production ...
Bombus hyperboreus, a cuckoo bumblebee, [14] is known to be a social parasite among the bumblebee family, mostly attacking and enslaving colonies of species of the same subgenus. Though it mostly usurps Bombus polaris , there have been evidence of B. hyperboreus usurping Bombus balteatus and Bombus jonellus as well.