Bumblebee survival
by Chris, 19 April, 2017, 2 comments
The warmth of recent days has seen bumblebee queens foraging among the Spring flowers. They have emerged from hibernation. They now need to feed and then find a place to create a nest. The queen will then lay eggs, which will become ‘daughter workers’. Later in the season, males and new queens hatch - they will leave the nest / colony. The new queens that are fertilised will hibernate after they have fed (heavily hopefully) on nectar and pollen from available flowers.
Researchers at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, the University of East Anglia, the Zoological Society of London and University College London, have been studying different generations Read more...
