MASTER GARDENER: Bumble bee basics
4-H youth during Bee City USA Camp collecting native bumble bees, chilling the insects to collect data and photograph, prior to releasing, for the PNW Bumble Bee Atlas Project.
Kara Carleton
Bumble bees perform “buzz pollination” – a pollination technique where the bee grabs the flower in its mandible and vibrates its wing muscles to release pollen from the flower.
KARA CARLETON/Courtesy photo
Bumble bees are an important pollinator of wild flowering plants, as well as garden and agricultural crops.
KARA CARLETON/Courtesy photo
Bumble bees are an important pollinator of wild flowering plants, as well as garden and agricultural crops. Bumbles will fly in low-light levels, in cooler temperatures, and perform “buzz pollination” — a pollination technique where the bee grabs the flower in its mandible and vibrates its wing muscles to release pollen from the flower...
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