2026-10-04 13:43 UTC
….female workers out foraging with packed pollen baskets and each subsequent brood likely getting bigger in size.
Then the males appeared - the flower sleepers - often with slightly different colouration and yellow hairs on their faces.
Now in late summer/autumn we have a…
4/15
#bees
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@thebeeguy@mastodon.ie 2026-10-04 13:45
…new batch of queens out and about - the big #bumblebees you’ll have noticed lately. These big girls will have been fed differently to female workers as they developed in the nest - queens, as with males, need more food and for longer periods when developing as larvae. 5/15 #nature
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@CStamp@mastodon.social 2026-10-04 14:00
@thebeeguy@mastodon.ie If I see bees sleeping on flowers, these are males? What do the males contribute? Other than some being lucky to mate with the queens. And do female workers also breed?