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An emerging worker bee! 🐝 See how fluffy she is! Like she has bed hair 🤣 Did you know, the first task for a newly-emerged worker bee is to clean her own cell? Worker bees are all female. They live for around 6 weeks, and do many different jobs in the hive throughout their short life. A worker bee spends about half its life as a house bee and the other half as a field bee. House bee roles include cleaning, nursing, undertaker, architect, builder, temperature-controller, guard, honey-maker, and

87K views · 2K reactions | Different bumblebee species like to nest in different places, including long, tangled grass, bird boxes, and underground in abandoned rodent holes  They can even nest in more creative places, like under the edge of a pond, as shown here. What is the most interesting place you have found a bumblebee nest?  Sound up for that happy bumblebee hum!  Jade Oliver | Bumblebee Conservation Trust | Facebook

7.5K views · 238 reactions | Eight species of bumblebee in the UK are on the brink of extinction  Two of our most threatened species – the Great Yellow bumblebee and the Moss carder bumblebee – need urgent action, before it’s too late  Please, sponsor a species today using the link in the comments 李 | Bumblebee Conservation Trust | Facebook