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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 313.
# 312 contd.
Bumblebee food demand peaks during March to June. Shortage of food during these critical months can result in dire consequences for colony survival/queen production and risks local population extinction.
#bees
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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 312.
A recent study utilising computer modelling and focusing on two common European #bumblebees indicates that #bees need food up to a month earlier than when many recommended ‘pollinator friendly’ plant species actually flower.
Mornin’.
Waiting for bees.
The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland.
https://savingbees.ie
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#bumblebees #solitarybees
#beesofmastodon #nature #sanctuary
#savingbees #hibernation #spring #March #waiting #beesanctuary #cold
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 22.
Solitary Bee Lifecycle.
The quick generalised version.
Adults emerge in spring/summer.
Mate.
Male dies.
Female starts nest.
Lays up to 30 eggs in individual pods with pollen and nectar.
Female dies.
Young pupate over winter.
Emerge in spring.
Repeat.
Drum roll!
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#beesofmastodon #bee #bumblebee
#nature #wild #photography
If time is set.
Being late is freedom.
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 22.
Solitary Bee Lifecycle.
The quick generalised version.
Adults emerge in spring/summer.
Mate.
Male dies.
Female starts nest.
Lays up to 30 eggs in individual pods with pollen and nectar.
Female dies.
Young pupate over winter.
Emerge in spring.
Repeat.
Drum roll!
#bees #solitarybees #beesanctuary #beesanctuaryireland #thebeeguy
#beesofmastodon #bee #bumblebee
#nature #wild #ashyminingbee
Fashionably on time one might say.😎
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 21.
Bumblebee Life Cycle: Quick Version.
Spring - hibernating queens emerge. Feed. Start new nest. Lay eggs. Produce female workers.
Late summer - produce males and new queens.
New queens/males mate.
New queens hibernate.
Males, female workers and old queen die.
Repeat.
#bees #bumblebees #nature #wild #beesanctuaryireland #beesanctuary
#beesofmastodon #bee #solitarybees
#naturereserve #thebeeguy #wildlife
Maybe we should help them?
#beesanctuaryireland #NativeWildBees
#thebeeguy #beesanctuary #bumblebees #solitarybees #nature #help #ireland
Early again.
This is unprecedented.
We’re in uncharted territory.
Hold on to your hats…😮😊
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
#3.
Ireland now has 101 species of bee.
79 Solitary bees
21 Bumblebees
1 Honey bee
‘Is that you giggling away to glory?
Or is that just the flowers mingling with the bees and telling their story?’
- Avijeet Das
#bees #bumblebees #solitarybees #pollinators
#bee #beesanctuaryireland #beesanctuary #nature #thebeeguy #naturereserve #ireland
Welcome to #theBeeat3.
Enjoy.
Learn.
Tell others.
Or don’t.
It’ll be here either way.
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
No.1.
Bees have been around for about 130,000,000 (130 million) years.
"In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.” Baba Dioum.
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The Bee Guy
The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland