Can you eat bumblebee honey

So what happens if a bumble bee or Africanized bees come and make their hives in your house? Contacting your local beekeeper or bee removal company helps you to know if it is delicious honey or prevent a dangerous situation from happening if you eat it. Keeping the bees and your household safe is the priority of Bee Masters of Las Vegas.

We condition safe bee relocation in Las Vegas to not disturb the bee population. Honey bee workers collect a big surplus of food; bumblebees produce a mere pittance. Bumblebees are threatened. Their numbers are dwindling. If there really are bumblebeekeepers, maybe they can keep those bees alive.

A very interesting post. Just a quick point on bumblebee numbers; in Europe many bumblebee species are indeed in decline, especially the specialist that are adapted to niche habitats. The generalists like the Buff tailed bumblebee are faring better. Like Like. Thanks for all this! Great comments.

And thanks for the PDF link! Like Liked by 1 person. Thanks for writing this article. I found it very informative, and I really enjoyed reading it. I stumbled across this while doing some research on bumblebees. You see I have a large bumble bee population that has formed in the eve at the back of my house which is sort of, above where I plant my garden every year.

Knowing that bumblebees and honeybees were the only two that really pollinated flowers and that bumblebees really never bothered people. Even now as I look out the window while typing this, I see more than a few bumblebees flying around, 1 even hitting the glass.

Ironically enough I had two wasp nest removed in the past 2 years around the front of my house. Now the bumble bee population in the back has grown quite large. So can you offer any advice on how to safely move away a bumblebee Nest? I read somewhere that if you sprinkle cinnamon on the nest at night that would work.

Thanks for your note. I have had to remove — sometimes dig up from the ground — several bumble bee nests lately for people who were not comfortable with them. Unfortunately, the bees seldom survive the ordeal. They simply do not maintain their nest well in transit, often killing their queen. This surprised me because I have moved several thousand honey bee colonies without trouble for the bees. Since then, in literature searches, I have learned that other researchers usually have similar disappointing experiences.

Female bumble bees have stingers, which they only use in defense. I recommend that you not disturb them. Their lifecycle has them build up a summer population, then every bee dies or leaves the nest to hibernate in the late summer or early fall. If you can wait three months, the nest will be abandoned and you can plug the holes so no new settlers can get in next spring. The reason this stored nectar is not considered honey is because its not dehydrated.

Bumblebees do not lower the water content of their nectar, like honeybees do. You might also wonder if bumblebees die after stinging, the way honey bees do. Fortunately for them, the answer is no. Unlike honey bees, bumblebees have smooth stingers that allow them to sting more than once.

Although they have this ability, bumblebees tend to be much more docile and will only sting when cornered or if their nest is disturbed.

When the media talks about the bees dying, they often focus on honeybees. Although honeybees face many challenges and are experiencing high mortality rates, they are supported by beekeepers and are not considered endangered. The first challenge is that the nest is usually underground.

You can imagine that blindly digging up a bumblebee nest does not often go well. If you try, not only is the nest now covered in soil, the structure is often mystifying to beekeepers and can easily be damaged. Also, with so many differently sized workers in the nest, its easy to leave behind the queen.

So, even if you did manage to excavate the nest, you may not get the queen with it. Sadly, most attempts to transfer bumbles fail. Yet, there is something we beekeepers can do — argue passionately to keep these bumbles where they are! Let the property owners know that bumblebees are annual. The nest will die at the end of summer and is unlikely to give them much trouble because bumblebees are docile and have small nests. There are estimated to be species of bumblebees around the world. You can learn even more them and find out about other fascinating bee species in my new book: The Little Book of Bees!

This illustrated guide is filled with gorgeous water color paintings of bees and loaded with facts. Click here to find out more. Close up of a bumblebee. Bumblebees are social, too, but not to the same extent. Where honeybees build hives, bumblebees live in nests with up to a few hundred fellow bees. These nests are found exclusively in the wild bumblebees are not domesticated , and can often be found in burrows or holes in the ground.

In fact, the queen, which is the only member of a bumblebee colony to survive the winter, hibernates in the ground. Bumblebees are not honey producers — or rather, what they produce is for self-consumption in the nest.

Of the two groups, bumblebees are the better pollinators.