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All bumblebees (genus Bombus) are queens. You are thinking honeybees (genus Apis), where mostly there is a single queen to a hive. They use a different matrix
by WaitWaitWha 5y ago
All bumblebees (genus Bombus) are queens. You are thinking honeybees (genus Apis), where mostly there is a single queen to a hive.
They use a different matrix.
- bsza 5y agoWikipedia disagrees with you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_terrestris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_terrestris
- Rochus 5y agoNo; they also have workers and drones; in spring the queen comes out of the earth, where she has been hibernating, and looks for a nest for the new state; she then lays eggs, collects pollen, and takes care of the brood alone until the first workers are ready; the drones then come in late summer and have to leave the nest right away and take care of themselves.