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	Bumble Bees
		Often confused with carpenter bees, bumble bees are characterized by the hairiness of the abdomen (carpenter bees have a smooth abdomen).
		Bumble bees are social insects which live in nests or colonies.
		To prevent bumble bees from establishing nests on a property, fill in all animal/rodent burrows and holes in the soil.
	www.doyourownpestcontrol.com /bumblebees.htm (0 words)

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	www.folica.com /brands/bumble_bumble_238.html (328 words)

	Bumble Bees \| Iowa Insect Information Notes
		Bumble bees are big, fuzzy insects recognized by almost everyone by their robust shape and fl and yellow coloration.
		Bumble bees may re-appear in the same area from one year to the next but they do not reuse an old nest.
		Bumble bee colonies are usually underground in a deserted mouse or bird nest though they are occasionally found within wall cavities or even in the clothes drier vent.
	www.ipm.iastate.edu /ipm/iiin/bbumbleb.html (0 words)

	Bumble Bees Around the House
		Bumble bees (Bombus species) are large, attractive insects that are of interest to children, scientists, beekeepers, naturalists, conservationist, home gardeners, farmers and commercial bumble bee breeders.
		The bumble bee has a fl or yellow hairy abdomen, which is a character that can be used to differentiate it from a carpenter bee, which has a fl, shiny, hairless abdomen.
		The bumble bee queens are typically twice a large as workers or males.
	hgic.clemson.edu /factsheets/HGIC2500.htm (1373 words)

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		To begin with lets take a look at a bumble bee and her distant cousin the honey bee, with whom she is most often confused.
		Encourage the bumble bee in your garden or farm and she will repay your kindness by pollinating your flowers, fruit and vegetables and giving you an excellent set on your blossom.
		Because the bumble bee does not live in a large colony the nest is usually little bigger than half a grapefruit even in the busiest days of high Summer.
	hercules.users.netlink.co.uk /Bee.html (1162 words)

	Pollinating Insect-Biology, Management, Systematics Research : ID a Bumblebee
		Bumble bees are important pollinators of our native flora, especially in the mountains, as well as some of our garden plants.
		Bumble bees possess three attributes that will help you to distinguish them from all other bees in the region: they are big, they are more furry than most other bees, and females transport pollen as a wet mass held in a “pollen basket” on the hind leg.
		Bumble bees are much more furry than the honey bee, the only other bee here that has a pollen basket.
	www.ars.usda.gov /Main/docs.htm?docid=10749 (488 words)

	Bumble Bees \| Du-Right Pest Control
		The Bumble Bee is thought to get its name because of its clumsy and large appearance, or because of the sound it makes when flying.
		Bumble bee nests are moderate in size and generally built in a subterranean cavity or in a large grass clump.
		Bumble bees fly at a rate of about 10 mph and spend only a few minutes inside the nest between trips of food foraging.
	www.durightipm.com /residential/pest-library/bees-hornets-wasps/bumble-bees (221 words)

	Commercial Bumble Bee
		This commercial bumble bee handles flowers faster than honey bees or alfalfa leafcutting bees and is more faithful to the blooming crop, even if alternate forage is in flower at the same time.
		Because bumble bees are much more effective on a per bee basis than honey bees, one bumble bee is at least two to ten times more efficient than one honey bee.
		Therefore, the bumble bee colony strength was adequate for pollinating blueberry.
	www.wildblueberries.maine.edu /FactSheets/302.htm (1800 words)

	Bumble Bees (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bumble Bees are quite different to Honey Bees in that their nests die out each year, being replaced by over wintered queens who complete a new life cycle.
		Bumble Bees never swarm; so you wont have the embarrassment of thousands of bees settling in the bar-b-q chimney on the afternoon before your daughter's outdoor summer wedding and being flushed out among the gathered throng during preparations for dinner.
		Bumble Bees are extremely good pollinators and are now used widely in the production of greenhouse tomatoes and peppers, (among other things) the magnificent skills of the bee being responsible for the excellent fruit set necessary to produce full, well shaped fruit.
	www.delphinium.co.nz /BumbleBees.htm (596 words)

	108. Bumble-Bees. Specimen Days. Whitman, Walt. 1892. Prose Works
		But for the last two days it has been the great wild bee, the humble-bee, or “bumble,” as the children call him.
		As I walk, or hobble, from the farm-house down to the creek, I traverse the before-mention’d lane, fenced by old rails, with many splits, splinters, breaks, holes, andc., the choice habitat of those crooning, hairy insects.
		From top to bottom, seeking the sweet juice in the blossoms, it swarms with myriads of these wild bees, whose loud and steady humming makes an undertone to the whole, and to my mood and the hour.
	www.bartleby.com /229/1108.html (762 words)

	Bumble Bee
		Bumble bees are big, fuzzy insects recognized by almost everyone by their robust shape and fland yellow coloration.
		Bumble bees usually nest in the ground in a deserted mouse nest or bird nest.
		Bumble bees are social insects whose colonies are annual and only queens fertilized the previous summer survive the winter in hibernation and emerge the following spring to found new colonies.
	www.holoweb.com /cannon/bumblebe.htm (833 words)

	BUMBLE BEE
		Bumble bees nest in soil or leaf litter where a single queen lays 8 to 12 eggs in spring.
		The bumble bee is often confused with her distant cousin the honey bee.
		Encourage the bumble bee in your garden or farm and she will repay your kindness by pollinating your flowers, fruit and vegetables and giving you an excellent set on your blossom.
	www.eduwebs.org /bugs/bumble_bee.htm (444 words)

	Defra, Bee Health Importation Bumble Bees From Third Countries
		Imports of queen bumble bees (plus attendants) are permitted, provided that American foul brood disease, the small hive beetle and the tropilaelaps mite are notifiable throughout the exporting third country, and that consignments meet all the other requirements in the health certificate that must accompany the bees;
		Single colonies of bumble bees (a maximum of 200 adult bees per container) are permitted provided that they have been bred under environmentally controlled conditions within recognised establishments.
		The owner or person in charge of the bees shall ensure that the container in which they were transported from the third country of origin, and all material that accompanied the bees are destroyed either during or immediately at the end of the lifespan of the imported colony.
	www.defra.gov.uk /hort/Bees/Bumble/index.htm (383 words)

	Gordon's Social Bees Page
		Bumble Bees are the least advanced of the major groups of Eusocial Bees and their foraging is limited by the fact that they have not evolved any means of communicating information reguarding utilisable resources.
		Bumble Bees are the only group of eusocial insects to initiate nectar theft, they do this by biting a hole in the base of the nectar spur or some other suitable part of the flower in order to allow themselves access to nectar from flowers they would otherwise be unable to get the nectar from.
		Bumble Bees forage for longer hours and in more inclement weather than Honey Bees and are capable of foraging in winds as high as 15 Km/h as compared to Honey Bees who have great difficulty controlling their flight in winds greater than 8 Km/h.
	www.earthlife.net /insects/socbees.html (2092 words)

	Bumble bees, MU Extension
		Bumble bees, genus Bombus, are robust and densely covered with fl and yellow hairs (setae); the pattern of colors varies with species.
		Bumble bees are social and nest in existing cavities, usually on or in the ground.
		Bumble bees seldom enter structures and are not aggressive unless they are defending their nest.
	muextension.missouri.edu /explore/wildthing/bumblebees.htm (315 words)

	Bees, Wasps and Hornets
		In late summer their populations peak and yellowjackets are commonly seen hovering around their nest opening or around garbage cans, etc. And it's yellowjackets, not bees, that become a real nuisance at picnics and backyard parties.
		Honey bees are not usually aggressive* but they will defend their hive if they perceive it's being threatened.
		Bumble bees typically build their nest underground in an abandoned mouse nest or under a clump of grass (often adding grass to hide the entrance).
	www.wil-kil.com /public/pestinfo/bee-wasp (575 words)

	UGA Honey Bee Program - Pollination - Other Pollinating Bees
		Bumble bees visit flowers during rainy, cool, or windy weather when other bees stay in the nest, and they are especially good in greenhouse pollination because they do not fly against windows like other bees.
		In some parts of the world, bumble bees are cultured in artificial nests and used for commercial pollination, but the rearing methods are often proprietary and unpublished.
		Bees in the genus Peponapis are about the same size as honey bees, and they are called squash or cucurbit bees because they only visit squash, gourd or pumpkin.
	www.ent.uga.edu /bees/Pollination/Other_Pollinating_Bees.htm (1082 words)

	Color Learning in Bumble Bees
		Bumble bees have colonies which are much smaller in order of magnitudes as compared to honey bee colonies.
		Bumble bee nests consist of cells and storage pots and structures made from a mixture of wax and pollen.
		Bumble bees were trained to come into the arena, feed on the cap in the foodbox and return to the nest.
	tellus.ssec.wisc.edu /outreach/SPARK/Volume2/Bumblebees/Bumble_Bees.html (2380 words)

	Biology and Natural History of Native Pollinator Bees
		Others are named after particular traits, such as cuckoo bees that lay eggs in the nests of other bee species (like the cuckoo bird), sweat bees that like to drink salty perspiration, or bumble bees, who got their name from the loud humming noise they make while flying.
		In fact, it is only the bees that live in a colony or hive ("social bees," i.e., honey bees and bumble bees) that are likely to sting, because they have a colony to defend.
		When foraging, the female bumble bee carries pollen in a concave, hairless area surrounded by stiff hairs on her rear legs, known as the pollen basket or corbicula.
	www.xerces.org /Pollinator_Insect_Conservation/biology.htm (2104 words)

	Ground-Nesting Bees and Wasps, HYG-2143-95
		Bumble bees are stout-bodied, robust shaped insects with fl or gray hairs variously tinged with yellow, orange or red.
		Bumble bees are extremely important pollinators of certain kinds of clover such as red clover due to their long tongues.
		Andrenid bees, as Halictid bees, are solitary, short-tongued and nest in burrows in the ground, sometimes in large numbers, nesting close together where vegetation is sparse.
	ohioline.osu.edu /hyg-fact/2000/2143.html (1276 words)

	Bumble Bee
		DESCRIPTION: Bumble bees are large, hairy bees that collect and carry pollen on their hind legs to bring it back to the hive.
		INTERESTING FACTS: Bumble bees are common and inconspicuous insects; yet most people have never seen the fascinating bustle of activity in the nest of the bumble bee.
		Bumble bees have very few natural enemies, skunks being one of the few animals that find bumble bees tasty, sting and all.
	www.ext.vt.edu /departments/entomology/factsheets/bumblebe.html (0 words)

	Bumble Bee: Biology, Habits and Control of Bumble Bees
		Carpenter bees have a shiny and smooth abdomen as opposed to the fuzzy abdomen seen on a bumble bee.
		The queen bee uses her energy to begin the nest and this energy (as well as time) is spread thin as she is the sole worker for the new colony.
		Bumble bees are often first noticed (in the area of the nest) when this activity of guarding the nest and pollen collecting begins.
	www.pestproducts.com /bumble-bees.htm (1579 words)

	bumble bees of Florida, Bombus spp.
		Bumble bees are easily recognized by the corbicula or pollen basket on the hind tibiae in the females.
		Honey bees are the only other bees in Florida with this structure, but are easily recognized by their smaller size, hairy eyes, and lack of hind tibial spurs.
		The five species of bumble bees found in Florida are usually separated by the pattern of the fl and yellow pubescence.
	creatures.ifas.ufl.edu /misc/bees/bumble_bees.htm (670 words)

	Urban IPM: Insects: Bees, Hornets, and Wasps: Bumble Bees (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bumble bees are large bees, the queens being about an inch long, fl but so covered with yellow-and-fl fur-like hairs that these colors predominate.
		These are social bees with annual colonies, which by the end of the season consist of an old queen and as many as several hundred workers.
		Bumble bees are very docile unless the nest is disturbed, but both the queen and the workers are capable of stinging repeatedly, as their stingers lack the barbs of honey bees.
	ag.arizona.edu /urbanipm/insects/bees/bumblebees.html (320 words)

	Burt's Bees - Folica.com
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		Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm is packed with protective ingredients such as ultra emollient lanolin and almond oil to help soothe cracked or chapped lips.
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	www.folica.com /brands/burt_s_bees_251.html (0 words)

	Bee Guild - Bumble Bees (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Bumble bee is native to California and can be encouraged to pollinate your yard by giving some of them a local home.
		A good honey bee hive may have 40000 bees but a Bumble bee hive will be closer to a hundred or so bees and they are more passive than the honey bee if you are worried about stings.
		Since Bumble bees, except for the queens, do not live over the winter keeping these maintaining these bees year to year differs greatly from wintering a honey bee hive.
	www.beeguild.org /bumble.htm (255 words)

	Bumble Bees
		Bumble bees are just one of several types of bees that live in and around Texas homes.
		Carpenter bees are similar in appearance to bumble bees, but lack hairs on the top surface of the abdomen.
		Bumble bees can become pests when their nest is located near places frequented by people.
	williamson-tx.tamu.edu /IPM/insects/bumblebees.htm (651 words)

	Make a Bumble Bee House
		In "neatly kept" yards and gardens, these items are generally quite rare and the bumble bee population is limited by a lack of suitable nesting sites.
		There are, of course, nice bumble bee houses that you can buy at many garden stores and nurseries for a mere $30-$40, but research has shown that, even in ideal settings, occupation of nest boxes is only 30% at best.
		Queen bumble bees were soon checking out four of the cans and they appeared to take up residence.
	crawford.tardigrade.net /bugs/BugofMonth36.html (879 words)

	Bumble Bee - Bombus bimaculatus
		Bumble bees are always the traditional bee colors of fl and yellow.
		Bumble bees live all over the United States and in every grassland you could find, but Bombus bimaculatus is native to the state of Iowa.
		Bumble bees have many enemies including the beetle, fly, ant, mite and wasps.
	www.blueplanetbiomes.org /bumble_bee.htm (632 words)

	Bumble Bee: pictures, information, classification and more (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bumble bees are similar to their close relatives, the honey bees, in that their colonies are headed by a queen, who is the main egg-layer, and many workers, who are the daughters of the queen, and in that drones (males) are produced during the mating season.
		Because bumble bees are conspicuous and important in nature, their biology has been well studied.
		Some species of bumble bees, known as cuckoo bumble bees, are parasitic on the nests of nonparasitic bumble bees.
	www.everythingabout.net /articles/biology/animals/arthropods/insects/bees/bumble_bee (776 words)

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