When winter begins, all bumblebees die except a few pregnant queen bees. In the spring, those queens head out alone to start a new structure to live and produce worker bees in, beginning the process all over again.
In the case of the bumblebees, scientists think playing with balls helps bees develop motor skills that they'll need later so they can find that sweet, sweet nectar they love so much because flowers could be kind of tricky.
Nectar robbery, in which a bumblebee carves a hole in the side of a flower as a bank robber might cut his way into a vault, was discovered by Charles Darwin.
Even America's animals are getting into the action. Dog and cat owners plan to dress their animal friends as pumpkins, hotdogs and bumblebees, the retail group says.
There are all kinds of bees buzzing out there in the world — bumblebees, honeybees, carpenter bees, yellowjackets, wasps, and hornets, just to name a few that you may have heard of.
Gill Perkins says, “They are beginning to realise how their mental health and wellbeing is supported by nature — particularly by bumblebees, which are so iconic and beautiful and buzzy.”