The Wanna Beee

Welcome to my bee blog! Search for "Mine" below to see any posts I've written, "Patreon" for any posts relating to my Patreon account or "Saving Bees" to see any posts on how to help bees. Happy browsing :) :) - Steph!

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[thewannabeee]

If you’re in Canada you can watch a documentary episode here about how 5 million bees were stolen from a beekeeping family in Montreal, Canada! 

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Bee tea with honey.

[foxthebeekeeper]

Looked at Easter Hiveland real quick and found it completely frozen. Even the hive beetles are dead.

I’m guessing it was the combination of low temperatures and constant rain that just made it impossible for them to keep the hive warm. It’s sad, really; but what can you do but move on? Natural hive and the unnamed extraction hive are still alive and well. I just hope they have enough stores to last the winter.

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[snoopingasusualisee]

girls night

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i love them, thank you.

[thewannabeee]

also the plattdüütsch word for bumble bee is Plüschbrummer which literally translates to fuzzbuzzer

That's so cute!!!!111!!

[silverhawk]

one of my fave bee facts is that sometimes they just tire themselves out and fall asleep in flowers while gathering nectar

[goodstuffhappenedtoday]

Stripes of wildflowers across farm fields could cut pesticide spraying

The stripy fields have been planted across England as part of a trial to boost the natural predators of pests that attack cereal crops

Long strips of bright wildflowers are being planted through crop fields to boost the natural predators of pests and potentially cut pesticide spraying.

The strips were planted on 15 large arable farms in central and eastern England last autumn and will be monitored for five years, as part of a trial run by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH).

Concern over the environmental damage caused by pesticides has grown rapidly in recent years. Using wildflower margins to support insects including hoverflies, parasitic wasps and ground beetles has been shown to slash pest numbers in crops and even increase yields.

[lierdumoa]

To quote another farming post that crossed my dash earlier today – “It’s almost like nature knows what it’s doing.”

[thewannabeee]

the german word for bumblebee is Hummel

No way!! I didn't know that!

Thanks for sharing :)

[wewillsavethebees]

Y'all! I made a bee pumpkin for halloween!! 🐝🎃

[thewannabeee]

Reblogged this post last year but Halloween is right around the corner so I'll do it again ;)

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🐝

[geiss1136]

honey

[beerightsactivist]

dark bee tumblr show me the forbidden bees

[archivesandcyanide]

this is the masked bee! she has no friends and hates everyone. Sometimes when she has kids she raises them alone and doesn’t let the father come for day trips. she loves pollen but does not like waiting for it so she chews flowers open which is essentially stealing. we love her anyway.

these bees are homalictus bees! they are the rainbow gay bees. Females tend to live together in one nest and guard the entrance. one time we found 160 gay girls bunking together. They’re so irridescent and small that they might look like flies but they are really just tiny lesbians.

and this is the blue banded bee! she may look like she’s wacked out, but really she is pretty chill. she just wants to live independently (or with some friends) in a nest or burrow and look after tomatoes.

this is a cuckoo bee! she is really cool! she goes into other bee’s houses and lays eggs there, and then when the baby hatches it eats the host bees’ pollen and lays waste to the hive, murdering and eating all the other bee babies! BUT ONLY if it’s mother bee didn’t kill them all first.

[beerightsactivist]

thank u dark bee tumblr

[koiotchka]

This is the most successful thing ever!

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this is dawson’s burrowing bee! they are one of the largest bees in australia and they burrow into the ground to make nests. males are so aggressive that they will literally fight and kill each other to get a female! and if a particularly aggressive male does not get a female he will murder all of the other males out of rage! (and sometimes the females will be casualties of these brawls - here is a video of a bee brawl where a female get decapitated. these bees are very large and kind of look like half bee half cockroach. but the females’s fuzzy white heads are pretty cute! [photo credit]

[beerightsactivist]

and dark bee tumblr comes through for us again… we are so fortunate. thank u dark bee tumblr. thank u

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I’m mad that they missed the opportunity to use “les-bee-ans”

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This is a tree bumblebee- they’re pretty similar to honeybees in that they have big nests with a polyandrous queen. However, these guys love to be around humans and in gardens, and are super resilient- there are now large populations in Iceland. They have a more complex social hierarchy than most bees, with multiple worker castes. If a worker gets close with the queen she can mate with a drone and lay her own eggs in with the big pile, but eat the eggs of any workers beneath her that try to do so.

This is a valley carpenter bee- the only bee that can thermoregulate and had a circulatory system complete with aortic arch. Carpenter bees are good because they are too big to get into many flowers and have to be extra hairy to get pollen. They live in raw wood in small family units of all females (mothers and daughters or sisters) and are excellent cooks and workers. Males cruise around mating with multiple females and then leave.

These are green sweat bees- they burrow in the ground and live in apartment complexes, where they all use the same entrance but then have their own separate burrows rather than one large room. Some have kids, some don’t, so someone’s always around to keep out invaders. Unlike most bees the males actually do quite a bit of pollinating and go out in groups.

[beerightsactivist]

dark bee tumblr has graced us once again with even more forbidden and secret bees we are truly blessed

[nonegenderwithleftbees]

Coming at you with another Australian native bee; tetragonula carbonaria or the sugarbag bee. They are a stingless species instead using resin to trap and entomb invaders that get into their hive as shown below (which doesn’t happen often because these bees are tiny and the entrances to their hives are also just as tiny). 

Like honey bees they are eusocial. Meaning they live in hives with a queen, drones and worker bees that create these complex hives that are completely different to honey bee hives. With honey and pollen pots built on the outside of the hive and the spiral structure in the middle made up of brood cells, where in the centre the queen sits.

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do you dare pass through the sticky traps and enter the B E E S P I R A L

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do you dare pass through the sticky traps and enter the b e e s p i r a

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[thewannabeee]

Fun facts about Beeswax

- Beeswax is made by the worker bees and is produced by the glands (WoWee!)

- It is estimated that honey bees eat 8lbs. of honey to produce 1lb. of wax (That's a LOT of honeyy ;) )

-It is used by the bees to make the honeycombs which store the honey 

- When the bees have filled each cell in the comb with honey, they cover all the cells with wax caps. (Even MORE honeyy ;) )

- At harvest time, the beekeeper cuts off the wax cappings and extracts the honey (This is then cleaned and packaged and sent out to eat…)

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Wax production in bees is very interesting (though I am extremely bias and think everything about bees is interesting). 

The glands that produce wax are called the wax glands (scientists aren’t super original), and there are 8 of them all up, located in on the sternites on the ventral abdomen, as you can see below.  These glands are found ONLY in worker bees! Queen bees and drones do not develop these glands.

The wax from the worker bee’s glands are secreted in “scales” from between the sternites as you can see on the worker bee below.

In order for bees to secrete wax the ambient temperature of the hive must be between 32-36°c. This allows for the perfect temperature in order to mould the wax. Worker bees than collect all this discarded wax and use it for purposes stated above. 

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AHHHH I DIDN’T KNOW IT CAME OUT THAT WAY AHHHHHHHH

[zooophagous]

AHHHHHH

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[thewannabeee]

go bees!!! i love u guys!!! keep bumbling lil fellas!!

Thanks!! Go bees!!!