Bumble Bees can be found all over the world. Fifty or more known species of Bumble bees can be found in the United States and Canada.
A bumble bee can be small or large, commonly yellow and black in color. These types of bees are relatives to the Honey bee in nature.
Comparatively a bumble bee’s colony is like that of a honey bee. A bumble bee in the Appalachian regions and all over the world, will head their colonies with a queen. This queen bumble bee will be responsible for laying eggs. The queen bumble bee will have many workers.
The workers and queen are responsible for gathering pollen. They pollinate many plants and are a viable part of nature.
Noteworthy enough, bumble bees usually do not sting humans. These bees understand their purpose, so most often their only concern is to work diligently for the queen.
Unlike the honey bee, during cold weather the queen bumble bee is the only one to survive. The queen will hibernate then re-emerge during the spring season to re-build a new colony.
While taking rare photos of bumble bees in nature, noticeably these bees were not too concerned with the presence of humans. These particular bumble bees were more concerned with gathering pollen. Their spectacular black and yellow coloring proved to be a perfect picture for any nature lover.
The bumble bee is a member of the bee genus Bombus, a relation to Apidae. More can be found about the Bumble Bee at
http://www.bumblebee.org .
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