Bumble bees do make honey, but only in small amounts. One colony may make up to a tablespoon of honey in a year. For this reason it is not a practical proposition to farm bumble bee honey.
Bumble bee.
No, but there are many species of honey bees that will crossbreed
A homonym for 'be' is 'bee', which refers to the flying insect that collects nectar from flowers to make honey.
bumble bee its honey.
No. Honey is only produced by the honey bee - Apis Mellifera.
No, it was imported by European settlers. Australia does have its own native bees, but not the honey bee nor the bumble bee.
If it is bigger than a honey bee, it will be a bumble bee.
A bumble bee is a bee -- just a different sort of bee.Bumble bees do collect nectar and make honey, but not in large enough quantities to make it worth harvesting.However bumble bees are excellent Pollinators, so bumble Bees can be worth keeping. Farmers will pay you money to lend them your hives for the season so that the bumble bees pollinate their crops.
Bumble bees live on pretty much the same diet as honey bees: pollen and nectar (the basis of honey).
No. Bombus Bombus is the biological term for bumble bee species. Apis Millefera is the scientific name for the western honey bee.
Not at all. I keep honey bees in my garden and there are bumble bees there as well. I have even seen a bumble bee and a honey bee on the same flower.
smaller than a bumble bee and larger than a flea!