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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 253

Keeping with the male bumblebee theme:
Male #bumblebees do not forage for #pollen and #nectar for the colony but rather forage exclusively for nectar for themselves to maintain energy for mating flights and mating!
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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 251

Thistles are a vital #nectar source for male #bumblebees specifically (also for many other #pollinators!).
Their current status should be revisited in both a rural and urban context.
#thistles do good!
Leave them grow.
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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 246
# 245 contd.
Plants use nectar to attract #pollinators.
It’s the sugar in #nectar that makes it appealing.
Nectar containing more sugar contains more energy but it also gets thicker/stickier as the sugar content rises.
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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 245

It takes bees longer to drink
#nectar containing higher concentrations of sugar - and also longer to regurgitate it back in the nest.
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Anyone in my followers list that has a #nectar mattress?

I'm a hot sleeper (not a humble brag) and I'm looking for opinions from other hot sleepers 👀

Bonus if you also have a mechanical bedframe, looking for experiences, Good, bad or caveats!

Camera-trap study catches nectar-feeding birds breaking into flowers when their beaks don't fit

Trait matching affects the probability of nectar robbing in plant-pollinator networks

https://doi.org/10.1002/oik.11552

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