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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 .
A draft horse sleeping while standing up. Horses can sleep both standing up and lying down. They can sleep while standing, an adaptation from life as a prey animal in the wild. Lying down makes an animal more vulnerable to predators. [34] Horses are able to sleep standing up because a "stay apparatus" in their legs
When horses lie down to sleep, others in the herd remain standing, awake, or in a light doze, keeping watch. Horses are able to sleep both standing up and lying down. In an adaptation from life in the wild, horses are able to enter light sleep by using a " stay apparatus " in their legs, allowing them to doze without collapsing. [ 116 ]
Bombus impatiens, the common eastern bumblebee, is the most commonly encountered bumblebee across much of eastern North America. [3] They can be found in the Eastern temperate forest region of the eastern United States, southern Canada, and the eastern Great Plains. [4]
Sleep can follow a physiological or behavioral definition. In the physiological sense, sleep is a state characterized by reversible unconsciousness, special brainwave patterns, sporadic eye movement, loss of muscle tone (possibly with some exceptions; see below regarding the sleep of birds and of aquatic mammals), and a compensatory increase following deprivation of the state, this last known ...
This bee feeds at many kinds of plants, such as milkweeds, prairie clovers, echinaceas, loosestrife, bergamot, pickerel weeds, rudbeckias, goldenrods, clovers, and vetches. [1] The queens particularly favor legumes. [4] This species nests underground or on the surface. [1]
A common horse or broken down horse of no particular value. [4]: 153 points, point coloration The tail, edges of the ears, mane, and lower legs of a horse. Used in determining the color of a horse. [8]: 375 points of a horse Collective term in horse anatomy for the external parts of a horse, such as crest, withers, shoulder, cannon, etc. pointing
Bombus ternarius, commonly known as the orange-belted bumblebee or tricolored bumblebee, [2] is a yellow, orange and black bumblebee.It is a ground-nesting social insect whose colony cycle lasts only one season, common throughout the northeastern United States and much of Canada. [3]