https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/comparing-bumble-bees-with-honey-bees-zbwz1909zsau/ Mon, 08 Nov 2021 18:09:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/comparing-bumble-bees-with-honey-bees-zbwz1909zsau/#comment-147979 Mon, 08 Nov 2021 18:09:48 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=4447#comment-147979 Hi, I have been commissioned to illustrate a new children’s book to be titled, “Bee, Honey Bunny and Me.” It tells the tale of a little girl who loves rabbits and hates carrots. One night she has a dream about a baby bunny with the exact same issue and tells of how it was resolved. The story involves honeybees and has a small appendix at the back to tell of why bees are so important to our world.
I would like to add a page at the back “A Note to Parents and Children” about the danger of the Honeybee’s cousin, the Bumblebee and how we need to help secure the future of this adorable, endangered species – and how important they are as pollinators even though they do not produce honey.
So, would you mind if I took extracts from you page:
https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/comparing-bumble-bees-with-honey-bees-zbwz1909zsau/
… and give credit at the end of the piece of course.
Hope to hear from you soon – we go to press in a week or so!
Cheers,
John.

]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/comparing-bumble-bees-with-honey-bees-zbwz1909zsau/#comment-99910 Fri, 01 Nov 2019 09:02:00 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=4447#comment-99910 Live in the UK and this is the first year I have seen such a huge population of bumble bees .
I was digging into my compost heap, not knowing that their nest was in the heap and was stung.
But very pleased after that I continued to see such a large population of bumbles.

]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/comparing-bumble-bees-with-honey-bees-zbwz1909zsau/#comment-96222 Thu, 03 Oct 2019 21:57:12 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=4447#comment-96222 Hillery,
Thank you for the info on bumblebees. My wife and I own 10 acres of native trees and tall grass prairie, we normally see a fare amount of bumblebees but this year there were thousands especially when the sumac blumed what a sight to see.
I’m 71 and have been raising honey bees since 18, has been tough the last 10 or so years.
Started this year with Saskatraz bees the hives are thick with bees right now and unfortunately some swarmed but recaptured 2 out of 3 two weeks ago.
Thanks again

]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/comparing-bumble-bees-with-honey-bees-zbwz1909zsau/#comment-96183 Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:12:38 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=4447#comment-96183 Sorry, Hillary. Not Rusty.

]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/comparing-bumble-bees-with-honey-bees-zbwz1909zsau/#comment-96180 Thu, 03 Oct 2019 17:36:49 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=4447#comment-96180 Rusty,
Thanks for the info, on Bumbles. We have a good number of them here. I have a decent plot of milkweed growing, that is very busy, while in bloom. They seem to love lambs ear too.
We’ve wondered, what other species of Bumblebees we had, due to seeing a bunch of miniature ones. This explains why. Interesting! Thanks.

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