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1. www.gardenersworld.com › plants › the-best-flowersThe best flowers for bumblebees - BBC Gardeners World Magazine

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   Like rosemary, you can add the foliage of chives to your dishes, and like borage, the flowers are edible. The blooms are a hit with bumblebees, too, along with other pollinators like mason bees, Nomada bees and hoverflies.

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3. learnbees.com › what-do-bumble-bees-eatBumblebees Food 101: What Do Bumble Bees Eat and Drink ...

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   Jan 8, 2024 · Short answer: Bumblebees drink water and eat pollen and nectar from flowers. But how do they do it? For starters, bumblebees get water from puddles, ponds, and dew they find on flowers or grass. For food, they use their long tongues to reach the nectar deep inside flowers.

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4. www.bto.org › attracting-bumblebees › plantsPlants for bumblebees | BTO - British Trust for Ornithology

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   Plants for bumblebees. Although not an exhaustive list, the following suggestions should give you quite a bit of choice when it comes to suitable plants for bumblebees (as well as Honey Bees and other solitary bees).

5. www.wildlifetrusts.org › actions › how-attractHow to attract bumblebees to your garden - The Wildlife Trusts

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   The early bumblebee is a small, agile bee, with a medium-length tongue, which means it can probe a range of flower depths and is able to visit upside-down and drooping flowers, such as comfrey and viper’s-bugloss.

6. www.tenthacrefarm.com › 13-things-about-bumble-bee13 Things You Didn’t Know About Bumble Bees - Tenth Acre Farm

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   • Bees require a temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit or higher to fly easily without using up all of their nectar stores. But they prefer it hot: 80-90 degrees.
   • Bees sleeping outside the nest will sleep under a flowerhead or inside a deep flower like a squash blossom where the temperature can be up to 18 degrees warmer close to the nectar source.
   • The bee asleep in the flower on a cool morning may be a female forager who got caught outside the nest when the temperature decreased rapidly. Her job is to forage for nectar and pollen and she stores it in (yellow) pollen baskets on her hind legs to take back to the nest.
   • Or the sleeping bee may be a male. Most males leave the nest just a few days after hatching, and do not return. Their job is to drink nectar all day and chase queens for mating.

7. www.bbg.org › article › bumblebees_the_essentialBumble Bees—The Essential, Indefatigable Pollinators

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   Jun 1, 2000 · Bees fertilize most of our favorite flowers, and pollinate a third of the plants we eat. Bumble bees are important pollinators of tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, melons, raspberries, blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, and many other crops, and are the only known pollinators of potatoes worldwide. They are also the exclusive pollinator of ...

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   Do bumblebees eat fruit?

   • Yes, but ripe fruit and sugar from sugar water are the only human foods bumblebees will eat. —> Go back to the FAQs on “Bumblebees Food: What Do Bumble Bees Eat?” Do Carpenter Bees Pollinate? How Long Do Bumble Bees Live? Honeybees vs. Bumblebees: How Do They Compare? What do black bumblebees eat? Fun fact: There are over 250 species of bumblebees.

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   What flowers can bumblebees eat?

   • Check out some of our favourite flowers to grow for bumblebees, below. Rosemary is great for those hot, dry spots in the garden, and on top of the flowers being a magnet for bumblebees and other pollinators, you'll have fresh rosemary to use all year round.

   The best flowers for bumblebees - BBC Gardeners World Magazine

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   Can bumblebees eat Scabious flowers?

   • The edible flowers can be used to garnish drinks and salads. Scabious have broad flowerheads packed with small flowers, acting as a landing pad for bumblebees. It's popular with many species and is planted here with crown vetch (Securigera varia) – another fantastic plant for bumblebees.

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   What do red tailed bumblebees eat?

   • The red-tailed bumblebee is a large bee that likes to land on flowers with ‘platforms’, such as daisies and knapweeds. The early bumblebee is a small, agile bee, with a medium-length tongue, which means it can probe a range of flower depths and is able to visit upside-down and drooping flowers, such as comfrey and viper’s-bugloss.

   How to attract bumblebees to your garden - The Wildlife Trusts

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   Do bumblebees eat comfrey?

   • The early bumblebee is a small, agile bee, with a medium-length tongue, which means it can probe a range of flower depths and is able to visit upside-down and drooping flowers, such as comfrey and viper’s-bugloss. The common carder bee is long-tongued and able to get nectar from long-tubed flowers, such as the late flowers of white dead-nettle.

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   Do buff tailed bumblebees eat comfrey?

   • The buff-tailed bumblebee and white-tailed bumblebee prefer short, open flowers, such as white clover and comfrey. Both are hole-biting, ‘nectar robbers’. The buff-tailed bumblebee rarely visits pendulous flowers as its large size means it is not agile enough to do so.

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9. www.bumblebeeconservation.org › learn-aboutThe bumblebee lifecycle - Bumblebee Conservation Trust

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   She feeds from the little nectar pot when the weather is too bad to visit flowers. Larvae. After four to six days, the eggs hatch into white, C-shaped larvae. These wriggling offspring munch their way through the pollen that surrounds them. They grow very quickly and shed their skins several times. The queen now faces a tricky balancing act!