Strange flight of bumblebees

In general, this is what males usually do when they mark a territory and then fly around it, waiting for the passing females for you-know-why, but this happens at the end of summer. Now bumblebee females are looking for nesting sites.

Interestingly, the behavior of hymenoptera is described by Khalifman in the book "Four-winged Corsairs".

Tell me what I need to attract a bumblebee, I put boxes, and put a birdhouse, and everything is useless

The mouse's nest must be there for her!

The mouse's nest must be there for her!

I was attacked by bumblebees like that once . I'm walking in the woods one day, smear a bump on the bedding and a hole next to it. I thought I'd catch something interesting in it. Well, I immediately went there with my hands, and rushed... There were 7-10 of them there. I immediately get out of there gave.

Tell me what I need to attract bumblebees, I put boxes, and a birdhouse put, and all useless

Not everything is so simple. It is necessary to put a lot of these boxes, and it is better to bury them in the ground, and bring the tube out.

The mouse's nest must be there for her!

Yeah, the mouse smell attracts them.

Zhuk, and then not moss bumblebees were? They like to settle in the "surface" nests of mice, and not only. In one quarry where there was previously a surface mining of ore, there was a granite rock, and around it a cattail grew, the one with "rocking chairs". Well, the fluff from these rocking chairs was on the eaves of that rock, and we were climbing up there, and I started throwing big piles of this fluff from above, and in one of them there was a nest! Oh, how we ran away from there, I don't even remember, I think I had to jump))))
Moss bumblebees are one of the most aggressive bumblebees, although for me their bites are very weak, just like after a mosquito, only perhaps the sting is painful, and there is almost no tumor.

In terms of the tumor - this is who will be lucky! After such a bite, the whole clinic came running to see me. The hand looked more like an inflated rubber glove.

It probably depends on the strength of the allergic reaction. I don't know about bumblebees - there aren't many of them where I live, but a hornet once bit me-it hurt, but there were almost no traces.
What about the original topic question? Are females looking for genzdovya? Don't they build their nests in the ground?

namely, how to lure an earthy bumblebee to gezvanie?I don't know much about bumblebees, since it's not easy to find their nest(are they cherokee-yellow-white?)

Zhuk, and then not moss bumblebees were?

In my opinion, yes. When I ran away, I wasn't up to it . Finally, yellow-white-black assholes found in sheds with hay (family of about 20 individuals). And once I found their place right under the roof of a barn at a 4-meter height! They were dragging the earth on a bare board! What did they need there .

About how to lure a bumblebee into an artificial nest, you can search here:
http://greenfield.fortunecity.com/buzzard/397/sod.html
http://www.shmel.org/index.php?t=204&st=all
http://www.sunnygarden.ru/pets/bee/bbworld.html

About how to lure a bumblebee into an artificial nest, you can search here:
http://greenfield.fortunecity.com/buzzard/397/sod.html
http://www.shmel.org/index.php?t=204&st=all
http://www.sunnygarden.ru/pets/bee/bbworld.html

thank you

But, comrades, why do bumblebees sometimes have some big yellow bags loaded on their sides? Why do they carry them?

I have been tormented by this question for a long time

By the way, by the way, my bumblebees lived in the old rat town, in a country house under the floorboards, where the boards were laid, almost just on the ground. At first, the rats dug a huge number of holes there, and then they were replaced by bumblebees. Survived the rats, or just settled in an abandoned "city".

Just the day before yesterday, I completely finished this case, destroyed the rat city, concreted it, put good boards, painted it. Hooray.

But, comrades, why do bumblebees sometimes have some big yellow bags loaded on their sides? Why do they carry them?

I've been tormented by this question for a long time

This is the pollen of flowers, which they collect together with nectar.

- I read somewhere that physicists still can't figure out how a bumblebee can fly, based on its aerodynamic qualities... - I wonder-who has ever encountered this question?

sorry for the flood
I watched a bumblebee feed on petunia flowers. The calyx of the flower is elongated and deep - usually hawks feed on petunia with their long proboscis, which allows them to get nectar from a deep "mouth". Reception of the bumblebee was not without interest - the bumblebee flew up to the flower from the reverse side and, conveniently located on it, bit through a thin tube at the base of the" calyx " of the flower,and only then, through the hole formed, collected nectar with its proboscis(?) .

This post was edited by Slavl-14.09.2008 18: 11

Reception of the bumblebee was not without interest - the bumblebee flew up to the flower from the reverse side and, conveniently located on it, bit through a thin tube at the base of the" calyx " of the flower,and only then, through the hole formed, collected nectar with its proboscis(?) .

- I'm very ashamed, - I thought the bumblebee
's mouthparts are the same as those of a bee, - sucking-licking...
- Well, seriously, I don't understand how he could "bite through" the whisk... and why I've never heard anything about it!? "maybe it wasn't a bumblebee."

Andreas, the duck also has upper jaws (mandibles). Like the bee

This is their favorite practice - chewing through the tubular flowers.
And the mandibles, of course, are

sorry for the flood
I watched a bumblebee feed on petunia flowers. The calyx of the flower is elongated and deep - usually hawks feed on petunia with their long proboscis, which allows them to get nectar from a deep "mouth". Reception of the bumblebee was not without interest - the bumblebee flew up to the flower from the reverse side and, conveniently located on it, bit through a thin tube at the base of the" calyx " of the flower,and only then, through the hole formed, collected nectar with its proboscis(?) .

Yes, this is, in general, a well-known fact. Even in some kin bourgeois about insects it was shown.

And some insects then use nibbles. Like this this murmurer for example

Yes, this is, in general, a well-known fact. Even in some kin bourgeois about insects it was shown.

for an amateur entomologist, this fact was not known in any case, watching insects live is more interesting than on TV.