bumblebee – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:35:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 bumblebee – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 The Broody Bumblebee https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-broody-bumblebee-zbwz1711zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-broody-bumblebee-zbwz1711zsau/#comments Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:40:52 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3723 I’ve raised chickens since 1993 and in those 24 years I’ve encountered many-a broody chicken. But never have I ever heard of a broody bee…until now. I’ve been fascinated with bumblebees lately. I’ve always found them adorable —like little yellow Teddy Bears buzzing around the garden. But recently I’ve been doing some research to learn […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-broody-bumblebee-zbwz1711zsau/feed/ 2 The Seasonal Bumblebee https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-seasonal-bumblebee-zbwz1711zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-seasonal-bumblebee-zbwz1711zsau/#comments Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:28:46 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3714 It’s the end of November in Michigan, we’ve already had several snow falls, the temperature today is 29 degrees outside, and I just killed a mosquito in our bathroom. It always amazes me how resilient insects are. In the winter, I often look across our field covered in white drifts of snow, sometimes several feet […]

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