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RE: Bumble Bees are one of our largest pollinators. Here they are, doing their job!
Someone forgot to tell the bumblebees that it is aerodynamically impossible for them to fly. But they never studied science so they don't pay attention. They can fly amazingly well for their body size. And you are right! They never forget when they have been attacked and by whom! 🤣
When I bother honey bees, when I back away from the hive a little distance, they go back to work. A Bumblebee, on the other hand, wants BLOOD; and is willing to drill to get it, LOL!
They will follow a long way, basically they have an over developed sense of vengeance, like in the movie "The Princess Bride", LOL.
:DLOL!
Do you have the same kind of bees down there? They have some actual honey bees in India that are about the same size as Bumblebees, and are very aggressive too.
:DYes we do and we have African bees and these bees that are as big as bumblebees but are all black and like to burrow into wood: trees, fence posts, as long as it wood.
I have seen the wood boring bees here too. Do they pollinate? My father in law used to hate them, because they liked to bore into his porch and firewood.
The African honey bees have been unable to take the cold here, so we have none.
♡♡♡Be grateful that you don't! They are vicious and attack in swarms and don't lose their stingers. Nasty. I have never seen the black ones anywhere other than my porch and drilling into trees and posts. I have never seen them anywhere near flowers so I assume that they don't.
A hive of Africans can be tough for sure! They are having some success re-queening the invaded hives.
I wonder what the wood borers actually do eat? Oh well, LOL!
:D