The Bee Guy
@the_beeguy
Creator of the one true native wild bee sanctuary on the planet - The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland. The only certified vegan organic land in Ireland. Disruptive.
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https://savingbees.ie 30-06-2018 15:04:38
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New month.
New ambition.
To get more acquainted with the concept of time. Specifically earliness.🙄😊
Bee fact spoiler:
City #bumblebees being less uniform means colony as a whole able to forage more successfully on the greater variety of flowers available.
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 172.
Research suggests urban #bumblebees are more phenotypically diverse as there is a greater RANGE of flowers available in urban areas and #bees developing more diversity of traits gives the colony more options when foraging.
Butterfly crime scene.😔
Wings of an Orange-tip couple found in a muddy patch adjacent to Cuckoo flowers.
Keeping an open mind on the incident.
#nature
#butterflies
#beesanctuaryireland
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 171.
Research suggesting urban #bumblebees are smaller than their country cousins proposes that this difference in size is down to availability of resources and ‘urban warming’.
Less food and warmer environment = smaller #bees .
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 170.
A study in Switzerland focusing on two species of #bumblebee commonly found throughout Europe suggests that ‘City Bumblebees’ are smaller but more phenotypically diverse than their ‘Country Bumblebee’ cousins.
#bees
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 169
# 168 contd.
Research found that in hotter & wetter years #bees had higher wing asymmetry meaning higher stress.
So #climate change bringing more hotter/wetter years will mean ever more stress on #bumblebees going forward.