Sirpa Pietikäinen🇫🇮🇪🇺 · @spietikainen
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# 231.
Recent research shows that the more plant species there are in a meadow, the more bee species are needed for pollination. ‘Rare species’ #bees often forage on and pollinate plants that the more common species of bees don’t.
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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
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# 217.
More energy for reproduction if not fighting disease?
Reduced infection improving forage effectiveness?
Research still has to find the answers to why #sunflowers in #bumblebee diet seems to mean more queens produced.
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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
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# 216.
The number of queens a #bumblebee colony produces is a good indicator of the health of the colony.
Research found that increasing levels of #sunflower pollen in a colony diet sees the colony rear 30% more queens.
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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
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# 205.
A study in Switzerland focusing on two species of #bumblebee commonly found throughout Europe suggests that ‘City Bumblebees’ are smaller but more phenotypically diverse than their ‘Country Bumblebee’ cousins.
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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
2455 followers · 898 posts · Server mastodon.ieBasic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 199.
Research conducted recently in the US confirmed that carrying pollen raises bumblebee body temperature.
Temperature of #bumblebees carrying pollen was shown to be a lot higher than that of #bees with empty pollen baskets.
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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
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# 183.
Observation suggests that the first #bumblebee workers leave the nest not at sunrise but up to 2 hours later. The trigger for departure is when the overnight temperature changes from falling to rising and the sun is up.
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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
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# 182
# 181 contd.
Whilst the first brood of female #bumblebee workers tend to be small in size due to sole reliance on the queen subsequent broods tend to produce larger and larger workers as the colony increases in numbers.
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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
2360 followers · 873 posts · Server mastodon.ieSorry…I’ve been a bit hit and miss with the facts lately. Not enough hours in the day. Must do better!
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# 181.
Noticed quite small #bumblebees out foraging in recent weeks?
The first brood of female workers produced rely solely on the queen for feeding/nursing and generally consists of relatively small workers.
So now you know!
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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
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# 174.
Over 75% of the 115 leading crop species are dependent upon/benefit from animal pollination. Only 28 of these 115 crop species are wind & self-pollinated.
We need #bees #insects #birds #animals.
We need to realise this.
Fast.
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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
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#WorldBeeDay Special.
A fact and a confession:
I’m The Bee Guy and I talk to bees.
On a regular basis.
I greet them as they pass.
I apologise for us.
I ask if they’re okay.
And #trees
And #birds
And #wasps
And #hoverflies
And #ladybirds
And #butterflies
And #frogs
But mostly #bees
Especially #bumblebees
Try it.
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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
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# 154.
Plastic has become so ubiquitous in the planet’s #environment that #leafcutterbees have been observed using discarded #plastic instead of leaves in the construction of their nests. This is not positive #evolution.
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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
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# 153.
Some mites ‘synchronise’ their lives with #bumblebees.
They attach to a new queen in autumn as the other #bees don’t survive the winter, hibernate with her, and then colonise the new nest she starts the following spring.
🤯
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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
2094 followers · 807 posts · Server mastodon.ieYesterdays fact.
Sorry we were otherwise distracted.
Still relevant though!
😊🐝
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# 129.
Buzz pollination - in brief.
Bees rapidly contract their flight muscles. This produces powerful vibrations which they channel to the flower using their legs/mouths.
Result = a #pollen explosion all over the bee.
Happy bee!
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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
2058 followers · 789 posts · Server mastodon.ieBees be chillin’ with the Buddhists!
Have a great weekend.
Be good!
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# 128.
The place on the planet with the richest diversity of #bumblebee species?
Tibet.
The highest highland on earth - the Tibetan plateau (and the surrounding mountains) is home to many of the world’s 250+ species of bumblebee.
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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
2058 followers · 787 posts · Server mastodon.ieAnother day.
Another bee fact.
A reassuring constant in a fickle world.
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# 127.
In the UK an army sniffer dog trained to locate #bumblebee nests was able to very accurately find nests of a range of bumblebee species - suggesting that colonies of different bumblebee species emit a similar smell.
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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
2056 followers · 776 posts · Server mastodon.ieToday’s fact today.
As it should be.
Must do better!
😎
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# 126.
Initially when #bumblebees start foraging they are not necessarily too good or efficient at it!
Newly emerged female workers often use up more resources in the process of foraging than they are actually gathering.
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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
2055 followers · 775 posts · Server mastodon.ieYesterday’s fact today just before today’s fact today.
Makes perfect sense.
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 125.
Bumblebee nests are notoriously difficult to find in the #wild.
This can hinder population surveys of #bumblebee species as nest density is used as an indicator of populations.
#bees #bumblebees #bee
#beesofmastodon #nature #NaturePhotography #savingbees
#beesanctuaryireland
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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
2045 followers · 773 posts · Server mastodon.ieYesterday’s fact as we couldn’t get to you…sorry!
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 124.
There are more species of bee on the #planet than the combined total of mammal and bird species.
There are over 20,000 species of #bees.
Around 6,500 species of #mammals and 10,000 species of #birds have been described.
#bee #solitarybee #ashyminingbee
#beesofmastodon #nature
#savingbees #naturephotography
#beesanctuaryireland #naturereserve
#pollinators
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The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland · @beesanctuaryireland
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We have ways of making you flower!
This is mad!
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# 109.
Recent research suggests that if food is scarce hungry #bumblebees will chew on plant leaves - not to eat them - but to stress the plant causing it to #flower thus providing earlier #pollen for the bees.
Chew on that! 🤯
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The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland · @beesanctuaryireland
1296 followers · 142 posts · Server mastodon.ie
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# 108.
Research found that tomato plants flowered up to 30 days earlier in response to their leaves being chewed by hungry #bumblebees.
When this behaviour was mimicked by cutting the leaves they only flowered 5 days earlier!
🍅🐝🤯
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