What species of bees is the 2nd most economically important bee sold in the US? How is it shipped?

eliochel
Jan 27
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The bumble bee Bombus impatiens; it is shipped in small hives, each containing only dozens of bees with one queen and brood, usually for placement in greenhouses.

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Bees are the only insect that makes a food that we eat.

Other insects we may use as food (entomophagy), eating their larvae or adults, but only bees make honey, a food both they and we eat.

Bees are the only insect that makes a food that we eat.

Other insects we may use as food (entomophagy), eating their larvae or adults, but only bees make honey, a food both they and we eat.

Bees "hear" with their legs.

It makes sense that bees would "hear" the vibrations we call sound waves with their antennae, but "hearing" with their legs? A group, of sensors on the bee's tibia, called the subgenual organ, pick up

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