Fact of Bumble Bee

Fakta Bumble Bee

1. Seekor lebah madu mengunjungi 50 hingga 100 bunga selama perjalanannya mengoleksi madu.

2. Lebah adalah salah satu arsitek besar dalam dunia serangga. Mereka mampu membangunkan
    rumah yang rumit dan kompleks yang dapat dihuni oleh komunitasnya. Lebah telah ada selama    
    jutaan tahun. Lebih kurang 30 juta tahun yang lalu.

3. Dibutuhkan satu ons madu sebagai bahan bakar penerbangan untuk seekor lebah yang mengelilingi     dunia.

Struktur Lebah Bumble Bee 5

Struktur Lebah

1. Lebah madu mempunyai 6 kaki, 2 mata majemuk yang terdiri dari ribuan lensa kecil (satu pada setiap sisi kepala), 3 mata sederhana di bagian atas kepala, 2 pasang sayap, kantong nektar, dan perut.

2. Lebah ini memiliki bagian mulut yang berfungsi mengisap dan mengunyah Ratu lebah mempunyai umur yang lebih lama dibandingkan dengan lebah pekerja. Lebah pekerja berumur sekitar 40 hari tetapi ratu lebah sanggup hidup hingga 3-5 tahun atau sekitar 30x lebih lama dari lebah pekerja. Rahasia ratu lebah berumur lebih lama adalah disebabkan ratu lebah mengkonsumsi Royal Jelly sepanjang hidupnya. Sedangkan lebah pekerja hanya mengkonsumsi royal jelly selama 3 hari pada saat menjadi larva.

Cara Lebah Bernafas

Lebah bernafas dengan Trakea merupakan lubang-lubang halus yang terdapat pada antarruas badan serangga. Dengan gerakan otot yang teratur dan aktif, maka udara akan masuk ke dalam tubuh serangga melalui trakea.

BumbleBee Capt 4

BUMBLE BEE COMUNICATION

1. Bumble Bee Communicate with othe Bee by Dancing

Perhaps the most famous and fascinating “language” of the honey bee is communicated

through a series of dances done by foraging worker bees who return to the hive with news of nectar, pollen, or water. The worker bees dance on the comb using precise patterns. Depending upon the style of dance, a variety of information is shared with the honey bees’ sisters. They’re able to obtain remarkably accurate information about the location and type of food the foraging bees have discovered.

Two common types of dances are the so-called round dance and the waggle dance. The round dance communicates that the food source is near the hive (within 10-80 yards). For a food source found at a greater distance from the hive, the worker bee performs the waggle dance. It involves a shivering side-to- side motion of the abdomen, while the bee forms a figure eight. The vigor of the waggle, the number of times it is repeated, the direction of the dance, and the sound the bee makes communicates amazingly precise information about the location of the food source.

2. BUMBLE BEE Comunicate

Honey bees perform a group of movements, called the "waggle dance talk." They do this to inform other worker bees of the exact location of the food source. Some of these locations can be up to five hundred feet from their hive. Honey bees fly from their colony looking for nectar and pollen. When they are successful in locating good food supplies, they then return to their hive and performs a dance on the honeycomb. At first, the bee walks a straight line while shaking its abdomen vigorously. The bee also makes a buzzing sound with its wings. The speed and distance of the movement conveys the distance of where the food source is so other bees can find it. Communicating the path to follow is more complex because the bee performing the waggle dance talk will align their body in the exact direction of where the food is accordance with the sun. The dance pattern looks like a figure-eight, as the honey bee keeps repeating the straight part of the movement every time it circles back to the center area again.

Galery of Bumble Bee

Galery of BumbleBee

Diet habbit

Cute!!

WHAT DO BEES EAT?

Bees are color-sensitive insects that rely on their sense of vision to locate food. Learn why some bees drink nectar and why other bees gather pollen.

Bees are most commonly seen when they are foraging, which is the process of finding food and water. Bees may fly up to six miles in search of food, and may be quite far from their home when you see them in your yard or neighborhood. And since there are many types of bee, the answer to the question "what do bees eat" has many different answers. Here's what you need to know:

Q: WHY DO BEES SEEM TO WANT MY FOOD?

A: Honey bees are attracted to sugars, and may be especially attracted to liquid sweets. This is why they may be seen at your picnic or backyard buzzing around your watermelon, soft drinks or frozen treats. While bees are usually not aggressive when foraging for food or water, they can sting when disturbed, which can make them unwelcome guests.

While your sweet treats may be attractive to bees, most bees use pollen and nectar as a food source. Worker bees gather both pollen and nectar from flowers to feed to the larvae and other members of the colony. Nectar is a sweet fluid produced by flowers to attract bees and other animals.

Q: HOW DO BEES KNOW WHICH PLANTS TO VISIT?

A: Honey bees rely on their sense of vision to locate flowers. Bees see colors in the spectrum ranging from ultraviolet to orange, but do not see red (red flowers are visited by birds such as hummingbirds). The flower advertises itself to the bees with colorful petals, many of which have shiny patches of ultraviolet that humans can't see without using special equipment. These ultraviolet patches are called "bee guides" or "nectar guides." Like airport runway lights, these ultraviolet regions guide the bees to the nectar.

The shape of the flower is also important. Some flowers have flat areas for ease of landing by bees, and others have elaborate modifications to ensure that pollen sticks to any bee that visits.

Q: HOW DO BEES EAT IF SOME NEVER LEAVE THE HIVE?

A: Worker bees drink the nectar and store it in their crop, an internal storage container. The bees then fly back to the hive and transfer the nectar to other worker bees through a process called trophallaxis. That's a nice way to say that they regurgitate the nectar to share it with the other bees.

Q: HOW DO BEES MAKE HONEY OUT OF NECTAR?

A: The worker bees in the colony mix the nectar with enzymes and deposit it into a cell where it remains exposed to air for a time, allowing some of the water to evaporate. The bees help the process along by fanning the open cells with their wings. The resulting product is what we call honey. The cell containing the honey is later capped with beeswax and kept for future use.

Q: HOW DO BEES GATHER POLLEN?

A: Pollen is the yellowish or greenish powder-like substance that sometimes comes from flowers. It can be very sticky. Honey bees have lots of little hairs on their body called setae. Pollen sticks to these hairs while the bees are in contact with the flowers. The bee's movement around the inside of the flower causes it to pick up pollen.

After getting pollen on their body hairs, the bees move it to a special area on their hind legs called pollen baskets. Foraging bees returning to the hive often have bright yellow or greenish balls of pollen hanging from these pollen baskets. Bees without pollen baskets may store pollen in specialized crops.

Q: WHAT DO BEES EAT BEFORE THEY BECOME ADULTS?

A: Honey bees mix the pollen with some nectar to form a high protein food mixture called beebread that is used to feed the immature bees, called larvae.

Q: IF THE BEES ARE JUST GATHERING FOOD, HOW DO PLANTS GET POLLINATED?

A: As the worker bees move from flower to flower, they spread pollen to many different plants, including important foods such as vegetables, fruits, nuts, and other plants grown for seed and animal feed, such as clover.

Animal Behavior

How Cute, Right?

         Bumble Bee :

Lebah bergantung hampir sepenuhnya pada bunga untuk makanan mereka dan, seperti kita, mereka mendapatkan keuntungan dari makanan yang bervariasi.

APA YANG BUMBLE BEE MAKAN?

Makanan utama bumble bee adalah nectar. Namun bumble bee juga memakan pollen dan madu ketika tidak ada nectar yang tersisa.

Predator alami yang utama dari bumble bee adalah burung, serangga besar, dan binatang amfibi seperti katak dan kadal air.

BAGAIMANA BUMBLE BEE MELINDUNGI DIRI DARI SERANGAN PREDATOR?
Bumble bee memiliki sengat pada bagian ekornya, ini yang mereka gunakan untuk melindungi diri dari bahaya. Ketika bumble bee menyengat sesuatu dengan sengatnya tersebut, sengat mereka akan patah dan secara umum mereka akan mati.

Menurut study terkini, tidak semua bumble bee memiliki sengat. Bahkan, bumble bee jantan ( disebut drone ), tidak memiliki sengat sama sekali. Hanya bumble bee betina yang memiliki sengat pada ekornya

KLASIFIKASI

 Nama Biasa          : Bumble bee/Lebah
 Kingdom               : Animalia
 Phylum                  : Arthropoda
 Kelas                      : Insecta
Order                      : Hymenoptera
 Famili                    : Apidae
 Spesies                 : Bombus


SPESIFIKASI

 Ukuran      : 1″
 Bentuk      : Oval, bee shaped
 Warna       : Black with yellow stripes
 Jumlah Kaki : 6
 Sayap        : Ada
 Antena      : Ada

Sistem reproduksi lebah memiliki perbedaan pada tiap-tiap strata.,yaitu strata Ratu lebah, lebah Pejantan, dan lebah Pekerja.Alat reproduksi untuk setiap strata terbentuk sejak fase pupa. Alat reproduksi jantan terdiri dari sepasang testis yang menghasilkan spermatozoa, dan mampu menghasilkan 10-200 juta spermatozoa. Ketika terjadi perkawinan, maka spermatozoa alat reproduksi lebah ratu.
Habitat Bumble Bee :  habitat terbaik bagi lebah adalah mereka yang menawarkan banyak bunga untuk memberi makan dari selama seluruh fase aktif siklus hidup lebah '(dari musim semi sampai akhir musim panas). Bumble Bee memilih habitat dengan bunga0bunga yang memiliki kadar makanan yang tinggi, seperti tingginya tingkat serbuk sari