Bumble bees live in colonies with a few hundred insects that include a queen, female workers, and male bees (called drones).

When a worker bee finds nectar she returns to the hive to tell the other worker bees where the new flowers are. As well as honey, bees make wax, beeswax can be made into candles.

We hope that by protecting this bee we can also improve habitat for many other species. • Bumblebees have stinky feet — whenever their feet touch a surface, they leave traces of an invisible, oily ...

“Female cuckoo bumble bees invade host bumble ... to carry pollen and are unable to produce worker bees, and thus depend on social bee hosts to collect the pollen on which they rear their ...