Good morning! You ask: ‘Are these very small #bumblebees we’re seeing out foraging around now a specific species?’ A good question. Thanks for asking us. Here’s a brief thread to explain these diminutive beauties. Please #repost/#share. A small ask for the small bumblers. 🐝 #bees #nature 1/9

It’s #Friday folks! Have the best #weekend you can. You know the drill: Be #kind Be #gentle Be #true Be like #bees And remember if someone insults and belittles you for any reason they’re not really insulting and belittling you they’re insulting and belittling Joe Biden! No they are…really😂🙄🦧

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 321 Bumblebees have long tongues covered in hairs which they use to extract nectar from flowers. But not all tongues are equal! Bumblebee queen tongues are not as efficient at collecting nectar as female worker bee tongues. #bees #nature #wildlife

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 320 # 319 contd The ability to recognize the same rhythms at different tempos (flexible rhythm perception) had been assumed to be a complex mental task requiring a large brain. But no one told #bumblebees with their sesame seed sized brains! 😂 #bees

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 326 Bumblebees got rhythm! Or more to the point - bumblebees get rhythm! Recent research found that not only can bumblebees recognise a rhythm but they can identify the same pattern even when the tempo is adjusted. 🐝🤯 #bees #nature #science

Do you want to visit World Bee Sanctuary this Saturday? Sure why wouldn’t you? It’s great. Even if we do say so ourselves!😂🐝 #beesanctuary #worldbeesanctuary #nature #bees #wicklow www.instagram.com/reel/DYPmeUN...

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 318 Bumblebee grooming in response to noxious stimulation of the antennae seems to be brain-powered rather than merely reflexive behaviour and is one of a number of likely indicators of the ability of insects to feel pain. #bees #bumblebees #nature

If someone touched me with a 65°C probe I’d be rubbing that area too within 2 minutes - after spending the first 30 seconds turning said probe on the prober that is! Pick on someone your own size people. Here’s your landscape bumbler…unprobed but probing (the flower for nectar). #bees

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 317 # 316 contd Research showed that in the first 2 minutes after noxious stimulation (touching one antenna with a heated (65°C) probe) #bumblebees groomed the touched antenna more than their untouched antenna. TBC #bees #nature #science #education

Here’s a #MondayMorningMinute with #nature here on #WorldBeeSanctuary. Take a moment. #pause Go do some #good. Have the best week you can. If you’re not having a good week - tell someone. And if someone tells you - Listen. Really #listen. #mentalhealth #wellbeing #birdsong #cowparsley #monday

Cuckoo flower. Top meadow World Bee Sanctuary today. #wildflowerhour #wildflowers #birdsong #nature #spring #sunday

‘Good Morning! ..oh and in case I don’t see ya.. Good Afternoon, Good Evening and Good Night…’ Gotta run… Just like this magnificent Common Carder bumblebee! Busy busy. *Chives by the way. #sunday #nature #bees #goodmorning

It’s #Friday folks! Have the best #weekend you can. You know the drill: Be #kind Be #gentle Be #true Be like #bees Speaking of noxious stimulation… Turn off 24hr News?? Stop shite-scrolling. Mute presidential pronouncements. Practice some self-protection. Have a beer/chat with your neighbour!

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 316 Recent research involving Buff-tailed #bumblebees appears to provide the first quantitative evidence of self-protective behavior in insects (in response to noxious stimulation)! TBC #bees #nature #worldbeesanctuary #science #education

Mornin’ It’s been a while. In a bit of a rush. So I’ll just leave this here with you to mind. And remind…. All’s not wrong in the world. There are places… #nature #worldbeesanctuary #dandelions #birdsong **Top Meadow, World Bee Sanctuary

Here’s a #MondayMorningMinute with #nature here on #WorldBeeSanctuary. Take a moment. #pause Go do some #good. Have the best week you can. If you’re not having a good week - tell someone. And if someone tells you - Listen. Really #listen. #mentalhealth #wellbeing #primrose #health #monday #birds

As usual at this time of year we have people on to us worried about having a bumblebee ‘hive’ in their #garden. ‘Are they dangerous?’ ‘Should I have them removed?’ ‘Will they be there forever?’ Here’s a quick #bumblebee #lifecycle thread to explain. Please #repost/#share for the #bees. Thanks! 1/14

It’s #Friday folks! Have the best #weekend you can. You know the drill: Be #kind Be #gentle Be #true Be like #bees And to my American friends on this date: May the First be with you! Amendment that is. Protecting your freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. #May #rights

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 315 Bumblebee priority when foraging is the rate of energy return NOT energy efficiency, choosing flowers that maximize immediate return of sugar to the colony over those that require less effort and provide greater energy efficiency. #bees #nature

Starting out… Oh to be young again…when summers seemed endless…all boards no phones… Coolafancy Skateboard Club: One member. But she doin’ just fine… #summer #boards #priorities

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 314 What strategy do foraging #bumblebees use to decide which flower to choose & how long to work it? Why the maximum rate of energy return strategy of course,😂 which prioritises the amount of nectar/sugar collected per minute. #bees #nature

At the top end of the #sanctuary we have a right of way along a neighbouring field to the road that runs through the local village. We walk our youngest to school this way. The field was sprayed a number of weeks back to ‘prepare’ the ground for ploughing, harrowing etc. 1/5

Here’s a #MondayMorningMinute with #nature here on #WorldBeeSanctuary. Take a moment. #pause Go do some #good. Have the best week you can. If you’re not having a good week - tell someone. And if someone tells you - Listen. Really #listen. #mentalhealth #wellbeing #primrose #spring #love #peace

Greater Stitchwort… Top meadow World Bee Sanctuary this morning. #wildflowerhour #wildflowers #nature #spring #sunday

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 313 Glyphosate Based Herbicides (GBH) are the most widely used #pesticides globally. Increased use of genetically engineered glyphosate-tolerant crops which allow GBH application throughout the growing season hugely increases GBH exposure… 1/2 #bees

Good morning from World Bee Sanctuary. Cuckoo flower beside Big Pond. Keeping it real folks. Keeping it real. #worldbeesanctuary #nature #honest #real #pond #cuckooflower

Bee ‘Closing time, you don't have to go home But you can't stay here…’ Goodnight folks. Dreams diminish regimes So dream brave dreams #bee #goodnight #dream

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 312 # 311 contd Exposure to #glyphosate damages #bumblebees' fine-color discrimination. Small disturbances in color vision can be disastrous for foraging success as #bees try to distinguish between visually similar flower types. #nature #science

It’s #Friday folks! Have the best #weekend you can. You know the drill: Be #kind Be #gentle Be #true Be like #bees Oh…and…don’t use A.I. Use your brain. Go easy folks.

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 311 A recent Finnish study which exposed #bumblebees to field realistic doses of the #glyphosate based #herbicide Roundup found that the bumblebees' fine-color discrimination & long-term memory were significantly impaired. #bees

Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about! Actually…I’m not talking about anything. I’m not uttering a word. Rather I’m sitting here in silent awe letting the beauty, the sounds, the movement, the sheer wondrous life of it all wash over me. So I guess it’s…now that’s what I’m not talkin’ about! #nature

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 310 Study: Train two #bumblebees to push a Lego block for a reward. Now allow access to the task earlier to Bee 1. She waits for Bee 2 to catch up to start pushing the Lego hinting at ‘actively coordinated collaboration’ in #bees. #science #nature

Shhhhh! For a moment. #nature #bluebells #worldbeesanctuary

Happy Earth Day!? It isn’t though is it? A Happy Earth. If we’re honest. It could be… It should be… Here’s a bumblebee… #EarthDay #bumblebee

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 309 #Insects tend to navigate by use of path integration and landmark guidance for homing. Bees being #bees however display more complex behaviors, including creating novel shortcuts and optimal routes between locations. #bumblebees #nature

‘Gooooood Mornin’ Vietnaaaammmm!!!! Hey this is not a test, this is rock ‘n’ roll…. Time to rock it from the Delta to the DMZ…is that me or does that sound like an Elvis Presley movie?….. Hey!…is it a little too early for being that loud? Hey!…too late!…’ And yet here we are…

Here’s a #MondayMorningMinute with #nature here on #WorldBeeSanctuary. Take a moment. #pause Go do some #good. Have the best week you can. If you’re not having a good week - tell someone. And if someone tells you - Listen. Really #listen. #mentalhealth #wellbeing #daisies #dandelions #spring

Mornin’ There’s heat in that sun And she’s starting to hum… Sound up my darlings… **blackbird, blackcap, robin, wren, song thrush, siskin, blue tit, chaffinch… #birds #morning #spring #worldbeesanctuary #nature #birdsong

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 308 Despite the small size of their brains #bumblebees are really really good at navigation. They navigate on a par with vertebrates and in certain aspects their sense of direction is better than that of humans. #bees #nature #insects #saturday

It’s #Friday folks! Have the best #weekend you can…hang on a second…it’s Friday?…what in tarnation…where have I been all week? Oh bother! Anyhow… You know the drill: Be #kind Be #gentle Be #true Be like #bees And remember time spent on here is time lost forever out there… Go easy folks.

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 307 Research suggests that protecting/enhancing existing #hedgerows with early blooming species like #willow, hawthorn, ground ivy, red dead-nettle, maple & cherry could improve bumblebee colony success rate from 35-100%. #bees #nature #education

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 306 # 305 contd. The research indicated that a two week gap in the availability of forage to a bumblebee colony during March/April could result in up to a 90% reduction in numbers of daughter queens subsequently produced. #bees #nature #bumblebees

Here Blackcap, blackbird, Chiffchaff and wren, Wood-pigeon, robin and still more then No Genocide, ecocide, wars to hide Lies Crimes against humanity, innocents and child No AI, surveillance, disappearance, deception No hatred no vengeance No submission no insurrection No Jew no Muslim… 1/n

Here’s a #MondayMorningMinute with #nature here on #WorldBeeSanctuary. Take a moment. #pause Go do some #good. Have the best week you can. If you’re not having a good week - tell someone. And if someone tells you - Listen. Really #listen. #mentalhealth #wellbeing #birds #love #spring #health

Bee Goodnight folks. You stay classy, San Diego… ‘You gotta have a dream;
If you don’t have a dream,
How you gonna have a dream come true?’ #bee #goodnight #dream

Late? Of course. But you knew I would be. And you waited. Knowing I’d always show. You see…like it or not…we’re in this together. Bonded… In our love… For bees… You know it. I know it. Let’s not fight it any more… But rather embrace it and shout it from the rooftops… 😊❤️🐝 Here’s your landscape bee:

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 305 # 304 contd Larvae drive demand for food in #bumblebee colonies but where are these resources deployed? The larvae require POLLEN for GROWTH… and THERMAL regulation of the brood uses up most of the energy from NECTAR. #bees #nature #wildlife

Bee Everybody quiet down now and get some sleep. ‘I thought that I heard you laughing I thought that I heard you sing I think I thought I saw you try But that was just a dream Try, cry, why try That was just a dream Just a dream Just a dream, Dream…’ #bee #goodnight #dream

It’s #Friday folks! Have the best #weekend you can. You know the drill: Be #kind Be #gentle Be #true Be like #bees Be the one who shines bright, steady and loving amongst the darkness, insanity and hatred. Yeah…be the one. Here’s your landscape bee folks:

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 304 # 303 contd. Research found that a bumblebee colony’s demand for nectar and pollen is a function of the number of larvae in the nest rather than the number of active female adult workers. #bees #nature #science #education #worldbeesanctuary