The word ‘bumblebee’ is a compound word (bumble + bee). The word ‘bumble’ means to - Act or move.
Bumblebees can fly very quickly. They can reach ground speeds of 24.14 kilometres per hour (km/h).
Bumblebees are very strong! They carry up to 90 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 50 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, so I moved onto the week 2 challenges. The week 2 challenges is based on Up, Up and Away.
Greetings Kaitlyn Your post is very interesting and detailed. I like how you added what you had to do for the activity and put more information about what you posted about.
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Hello Kaitlyn! Great work on answering all the questions, and putting them in the right places. I like how you included what the Summer Learning Journey is in your blurb. I hope to see you posting more on the SLJ and I give you all the good luck that you can complete the whole thing. Keep it up!
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ReplyDeleteYou've done a fantastic job on filling in the blanks for each of these unbee-lievable facts about bumblebees! 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!
Do you like bumblebees? My dad is a beekeeper so we have a few beehives in our back garden. Our bees are honeybees, not bumblebees though. I get a little nervous to stand too close to the beehives in case I get stung but these bees work so hard everyday that they never seem to notice me when I lean in a little closer to have a look! Do you think you would be brave enough to stand next to a beehive?
Keep up the hard work,
Evelyn :)