AddictedToBees

Tag: Pollen

  • Bee’s wings

    Bee’s wings

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    The wings of a bumblebee are driven by powerful muscles that facilitate buzz pollination and can also be used to raise temperature. Bees have two pairs of wings

  • Emerging Queens

    Emerging Queens

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    The first bumblebees we see in late winter and early spring are the overwintered Queen bees setting up a nest

  • Snowdrops

    Snowdrops

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    Snowdrops are the harbingers of spring. As they start to poke their noses through the cold winter ground in November and December, it’s a message to gardeners that spring is around the corner. The little winter flowering bulbs push through the soil and start to grow tall, their elegant nodding flowers are soon a splash…

  • Shrill Carder Bee

    Shrill Carder Bee

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    There are a fair few rare bee species, with some literally on the brink of extinction, but few more so than the Shrill Carder Bee (Bombus sylvarum).