How dare you! Even I did not possess a shag pile carpet, back in 1982 when this event occurred, in my little house in Stanford-le-Hope, Essex. Mind you, there was some very nasty orange Artex* in the bathroom. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! , left by the - evidently high 70s - previous owner. And the carpet I did have experienced a bit of shagging. Delightful lady technologist at the refinery where we both worked...... *https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artex. 'king hideous, it was.
Bumble bees are a species of large bees. Queen bees spend their lives inside the hive except for swarming and mating. Each hive only has one permanent queen. They live about 4 years and one mating with several drones is sufficient for the queen to lay some 1500-2000 eggs per day for most of her life. When gets old the hive kills the queen and installs a new one. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_bee
Not in this thread. Bees have microtubules like all other eukariotic organisms. But that is not the topic of discussion now.
Until that time she is pampered like a queen. But the insect world is without emotion. Only efficiency is tolerated. A hive is living machine. What's worse, the hive kills all the male drones after mating. They are unable to feed themselves and the workers stop feeding them and one by one drive them out of the hive to die outside. Now that's ungrateful as a reward for doing your male duty..., getting kicked out on the street....Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! (Almost as bad as a Black Widow male spider who becomes dinner after mating.)
E pluribus unum: how honey bee bacteria coordinate behaviors What are the goals of the project? https://experiment.com/projects/e-pluribus-unum-how-honey-bee-bacteria-coordinate-behaviors
Is it relevant to bees and their lifestyle? Of course the simple answer to the OP questions is: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160621-do-bees-dream But should the thread end here or are bees worthy of more detailed knowledge of their very important place in the earth's ecology?
https://bugguide.net/node/view/3077 Bumblebees are a genus, with a couple of hundred different species. These species come in different sizes, some large and others smaller - the species also have different tongue lengths, some longer and others shorter, adapted to (and specializing in) the nectar and pollen sources in their region. The tongue length is not completely correlated with the body size, between the various species. They do not, in general, swarm. The hives are not that big, and new hives are started by new and solitary queens every spring. The hives do not, in general, kill their queens. The hives and their generating queens do not, in general, survive the winter after they build a hive - the only survivors are the hibernating new queens, which the hive has produced instead of honey stores. They do make honey - but they feed it to new queens rather than store it to get them through the winter. So the queens - the longest lived - live one summer in the temperate zones. As a genus, they are more capable pollinators of native NA temperate zone plants than honey bees - they fly in colder weather, have the physical strength to handle more different kinds of flowers efficiently, and use a wider variety of techniques to harvest (and pollinate) - including buzzing and vibrating at the right frequency to shake loose the pollen of particular flowers.
One thing is for certain. Bees don't sit around like we do, wondering what humans are up to. They're too busy. Bee fact of the day - Approximately 1/3 of the food we eat is a direct result of bee pollination. Have you thanked a bee, today? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
