When is a bee not a bee?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Yes, bumble bees are generally larger and are kind of fuzzy. Bumble bees do not lose their sting and die if they use it, as a honey bee will. (add) This is because bumble bees' stingers lack barbs, as honey bees do. This allows the bumble bees to sting repeatedly. The female bumble bee tends to be more aggresive than males(end).Honey Bees tend to be more aggresive

Answer 3

Both butterflies and bees are insects (tri-segmented body, and 6 legs), but they are not "true bugs." Bugs are a specific order of insects: Hemiptera, while butterflies are classified in the order: Lepidoptera, along with moths, dragonflies, damselflies, and skippers. Bees are classified in the order Hymenoptera, which includes wasps and ants.

Answer 4

A bumble bee is a large hairy bee that makes a loud humming noise. The Bumble bee lives in small colonies in underground holes.

Answer 5

the honey bee makes honey the bumble bee does not

Answer 6

No Bumble bees are solitary creatures and Honey bees are all members of a "Hive". They are entirely different species.

They are both social insects, but are different species..

Answer 7

A bee is always a bee. Since birth a bee was a bee.

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

yes. It is.