Bella Rubietta has devoted dozens of hours to helping a bug so uncommon she has yet to see it. The 14-year-old Prior Lake resident wrote a children’s book and brochures on the topic, held ...

Some bumble bee species may reach as long as one inch ... Bumble bees harvest nectar and pollen from flowering plants. Bumble bees are the construction workers of the pollination world, and they are ...

If you’ve ever wanted to get your hands dirty and help make magic happen in your community, by supporting local pollinators ...

She provides each egg with a ball of pollen mixed with nectar that she ... a hive – may have more than 50,000 bees, while bumble bee colonies usually have just a few hundred bees.

At the end of summer, new bumble bee queens emerge and mate. These queens, known as gynes, pig out on pollen and nectar until autumn temps become too cold for flowers to survive and for the bees to ...

Honey bees are an introduced species that are extremely important but they are not a native species to Canada,” said Dr.

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

Honey bee and bumble bee nests are not usually a problem and should be ... They feed only on nectar (carbohydrates) and pollen (protein) from flowers. Honey bees are sometimes found visiting bird ...

That is why this Animal belongs to Animals that Hibernate. The queen bumble bee sleeps during the winter and wakes up during spring. She fills her system up with enough pollen to survive the ...

Learn to draw a bee! I don’t usually like drawing insects, so I’ve broken the process of drawing a bumblebee down into super ...