Post by @thebeeguy@mastodon.ie

2026-10-04 14:04 UTC

Please pass it on so someone else will know too! #repost and #share for the #bees. The more we know about them and the more who know more about them the more likely we’ll do more for them. Right? Do right by bees. Thanks folks. 🙏🏼🐝 We can do some good on here. Go easy people! 14/15

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@thebeeguy@mastodon.ie 2026-10-04 14:06

One ‘correction’ for the pedantic among you. Technically a QUEEN is not a queen at this stage but rather a GYNE - a female capable of becoming a reproductive queen. On starting a nest she becomes a FOUNDRESS. Only when her offspring hatch does she become a bona fide queen! 15/15 #bees

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@Wyatt_H_Knott@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-10-04 14:09

@thebeeguy@mastodon.ie Great thread. I have seen big girls in my garden in spring, and was careful to not disturb the nests. I have seen males sleeping on my sunflowers (did not realize they were male, ty) and left them snoozing. Seeing lots of big girls around now on the asters, I'm refusing to mow my lawn anymore no matter how my neighbor complains, and will not be cleaning up leaf litter. So you have managed to save at least one yard full of bumblebees with your posts.

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