Beekeeping Forums banner

Various Types of Bumble bees

142 Views 0 Replies 1 Participant Last post by  woved47468
The bumble bee is a subset of honey bee and the essential person that recognizes a bumble bee from a customary honey bee is creation and capacity of honey. Bumble bees additionally assemble provinces out of wax. There are seven perceived bumble bee species alongside 44 subspecies.

Bumble bees are a social bug. In wild regions, they make elaborate homes called hives that contain in excess of 20,000 people. Bumble bees cooperate in a social request that is very much organized. Each and every honey bee is connected with one of three gatherings that are called ranks. The primary classifications of rank are sovereign, robot and laborer. A hive has just a single sovereign honey bee. The sovereign honey bee lays eggs, some of the time in excess of 1000 per day, and is answerable for multiplication of additional bumble bees. A sovereign honey bee gets by for two to eight years. It has a bended stinger and can utilize it ordinarily.

Drones are guys and don't have stingers. Less than 100 of them are available at a time inside the hives. They mate with new sovereign honey bee. They have similarly bigger eyes. They make due for around two months.

Laborer bumble bees are females and don't duplicate as they are sterile. They are the fundamental inhabitants of the hive constantly. They keep up with the hive and play out every one of the undertakings expected to keep up with and safeguard it. They are the ones who fabricate the brush, take care of raising, cleaning, having a tendency to sovereign and robot and so on. More youthful specialist bumble bees perform assignments that are expected inside the hive and are called house honey bees. Field honey bees are more seasoned working drones that go out to gather dust, nectar and water. They live for around a month and a half. They can utilize their sting once and after its used they pass on as it tears out from their midsection.

Different various types of bumble bees are as per the following:

Bantam bumble bees are little bumble bees tracked down in south and southeastern Asia. They build tiny homes in trees that are uncovered. Stings of these bumble bees are not fit for infiltrating human skin. These bumble bees can be taken care of with exceptionally less insurance. They produce humble honey.

Goliath bumble bees are one of the furious types of bumble bees. Their sting can be deadly. Different subspecies in this class are: Apis dorsata, which are local of South and Southeast Asia, Apis dorsata binghami, otherwise called Indonesian bumble bee, Apis dorsata laboriosa, known as Himalayan bumble bee. They likewise produce a decent amount of honey.

Hole settling bumble bees or Apis:

Eastern species: This class incorporates the ruddy Koschevnikov's Honey bee (Apis koschevnikovi) which is neighborhood to Borneo and Apis cerana, customary bumble bee, nearby to south and eastern Asia. They produce great quality and adequate amount of honey as well as wax.
European bumble bee: Apis mellifera is the regularly tamed types of bumble bees. Its starting point can be followed to eastern tropical Africa. They produce colossal measures of honey and wax.
Africanized Honey bee: It is prominently known as the "Africanized honey bee". Africanized honey bee is exceptionally forceful bees that are half and half between African subspecies A. m. scutellata and European stock. Their starting point can be followed to Brazil and later they spread to North America. When trained, they produce adequate amount of honey.
See less See more
1 - 1 of 1 Posts
1 - 1 of 1 Posts
Top