You've done a fantastic job on filling in the blanks for each of these unbee-lievable facts about bumblebees! Yes, you're absolutely correct, the word bumble means to hum, buzz or drone. They can do up to 50 times as much work as a normal honeybee. Bumblebees are so small, it's hard to believe that they can fly as fast as 54 km/hr. That's much faster than the fastest man can run on earth! Can you imagine having a race with a bumblebee? The competition would be quite tough!
These bees are incredibly strong to be able to carry up to 90% of their body weight in food so that they don't get hungry. Imagine if we had to carry bags and bags of food on our backs every single day, we would probably be too exhausted to even eat (I'd bring bags and bags of chocolate and other yummy snacks though)!
Do you like bumblebees? My dad is a beekeeper so we have a few beehives in our back garden. Our bees are honeybees, not bumblebees though. I get a little nervous to stand too close to the beehives in case I get stung but these bees work so hard everyday that they never seem to notice me when I lean in a little closer to have a look! Do you think you would be brave enough to stand next to a beehive?
Hello Tom,
ReplyDeleteYou've done a fantastic job on filling in the blanks for each of these unbee-lievable facts about bumblebees! Yes, you're absolutely correct, the word bumble means to hum, buzz or drone. They can do up to 50 times as much work as a normal honeybee. Bumblebees are so small, it's hard to believe that they can fly as fast as 54 km/hr. That's much faster than the fastest man can run on earth! Can you imagine having a race with a bumblebee? The competition would be quite tough!
These bees are incredibly strong to be able to carry up to 90% of their body weight in food so that they don't get hungry. Imagine if we had to carry bags and bags of food on our backs every single day, we would probably be too exhausted to even eat (I'd bring bags and bags of chocolate and other yummy snacks though)!
Do you like bumblebees? My dad is a beekeeper so we have a few beehives in our back garden. Our bees are honeybees, not bumblebees though. I get a little nervous to stand too close to the beehives in case I get stung but these bees work so hard everyday that they never seem to notice me when I lean in a little closer to have a look! Do you think you would be brave enough to stand next to a beehive?
Keep up the hard work,
Evelyn :)
thanks for giving the imfo to me its amazing.
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