Hello,EVeryone knows a bumble bee right? If you don't it's like a little insect that can fly but it causes no harm.
The word ‘bumblebee’ is a compound word (bumble + bee). The word ‘bumble’ means to Humm or Buz
Bumblebees can fly very quickly. They can reach ground speeds of 54 kilometres per hour (km/h).
Bumblebees are very strong! They carry up to 90 percent of their body weight in food with them to avoid starvation.
Bumblebees can do more work and carry more pollen than other bees, including honeybees. In fact, they can do up to 50 times as much work as a normal honeybee.
The number of bumblebees is declining in New Zealand due to a number of factors, including the removal of wildflowers and flowering tress from the landscape and habitat loss.
Thanks For reading and I hope you have learned something :)
Hi Coree,
ReplyDeleteYou've done a great job of filling in the blanks in this activity. I'm Leslie, reading your blog from my home in Canada as a member of the Summer Learning Journey.
We don't have any bumblebees buzzing around our home just now as we're in the middle of a very snowy winter. But we have concerns about our bees here in Canada, too. We're trying to plant more wildflowers to feed the bees and we're passing laws to reduce the number of chemicals that people are allowed to use so that we don't put poison into the ground.
Without bees we would run short of food - they're so important because they are our natural pollinators!! Let's hope we can make good changes to our way of doing things, in time!!
I hope you're enjoying your summer holidays and that you're enjoying all that you're learning through this program!!
cheers,
Leslie