Bumblebees can fly very quickly. They can reach ground speeds of 90 kilometres per hour (km/h)
Bumblebees are very strong! They carry up to 50 percent of their body weight in food with them to avoid starvation.
Bumblebees can do more work and carry more pollen than other bees, including honeybees. In fact, they can do up to 54 times as much work as a normal honeybee.
The number of bumblebees is declining in New Zealand due to a number of factors, including the removal of wildflowers and flowering trees, habitat loss, and extensive use of pesticides.
This year Panmure Bridge School is lucky enough to participate in the Summer Learning Journey from 2018-2019. This is an opportunity for the Manaiakalani cluster school to join. For the Summer Learning Journey we are given tasks to finish. The people who place 1st, 2nd, and 3rd from each school wins exclusive prizes. The prizes this year is amazing. I have completed most of the week 1 challenges and the week 2 challenges. I am apparently on week 3 now. The week 3 challenges is based called Up, Up and Away. This task was based on Bumble Bees. For this task I was to fill in the blank spaces based on formation about bumble bees.
Hello Mele,
ReplyDeleteWow great we also have the same answers. I am so proud to see that you are working hard towards the activities. Keep it up!
Hi Mele!
ReplyDeleteYou have done a good job at answering these questions about bees. WHat is your favourite thing about bee's? I hate bees, because I once got stung on the last day of school in 2018. Have you gotten stung before?
Keep it up!
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ReplyDeleteHi Mele,
ReplyDeleteGreat job on completing this activity! I liked how you even added in an image. Before I completed this task I didn't know that Bumblebees could do 54 times more work than a normal bee, and I didn't know that they could go as fast as 90 kilometres per hour. Since bees are losing their habitats and food sources, what do you think we should do?
Hey Mele,
ReplyDeleteYou've done a superb 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. 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!
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)! They can do up to 50 times as much work as a normal honeybee. Are you afraid of bumblebees? I used to be terrified of them but my dad is a beekeeper and we have a few beehives at home so I'm used to them now.
Happy blogging,
Evelyn :)