A member of the onion family, garden Aliums are a welcome burst of colour between Spring and Summer. But it’s the Bumblebee that caught my attention here. Did you know:
- A bee can detect a single molecule of sugar at a distance of one mile!?
- Bumblebees hibernate under the ground?
- They will NOT die if they use their sting, unlike honeybees?
- Their wings beat 130 times per second?
- There are 255 different species of bumblebee?
Categories: gardening, Photography
Wordless Wednesday In the garden again! 
Not Wordless Wednesday: Our garden goes “exotic”! 
In The Raw! Wordless Wednesday. 
The Two Doctors 
I hate to admit I know next to nothing about bumblebees and what I’ve learned about honeybees I’ve learned from television. Did you hear that story a few years back about the French honey producers who couldn’t figure out why their bees were producing colored honey until they found out they were getting sugar from a nearby candy factory? such amazing creatures.
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Great story, thank you 🙏
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Wow! a singel molecule of sugar? That’s super power. I knew a little about Honeybees but not the Bumblebees.
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I dis overed this during my PhD in Chemistry in 1970, specialising in analytical chemistry which included knowing stuff about detection limits!
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