and they are warning species. Their bumbleness can bee too sensitive to warming

You better beelieve I caught that beeautiful pun about plants beeing able to bee pollinated by our big bouncy bumbly bee friends!

It’s crazy how little appreciation native bees get!!

I've never heard of this buzz lock thing before. How does it work? Do the plants in question have petals stuck together via hydrostatic skeleton and the frequency shakes the lock loose? Do unlocked plants re-lock or remain unlocked?

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@@YouGuessIGuess I'm not a plant guy so.I mostly know about it on the bee end but basically their buzzing triggers them to release the pollen and there are certain plants who's anthers won't release until they are buzzed by the right frequency buzz!

This is the kind of BS people have to resort to when politicians can't get new laws passed. People are so opposed to the government doing anything that the government can't help even when this is exactly the kind of thing governments are meant to do.

the weird thing is... doesn't that fish law also include invertebrates??

​@@alveolateYup.

Amazingly, this is exactly the sort of logic you get out of the VA.

Not unprecedented... The Catholic church classified capybara (a BIG rodent) a fish so that the native population who relied on it could eat it on meatless Fridays. (To be clear, good for them for bending a rule so people didn't have to needlessly suffer.)

I initially thought you were referring to the bee as a tiny, shallow little prick lol

Rumblebees. Bumblefish

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Heck yeah! Wasps are jerks. I'm rooting for the bumblebees everytime! Lol

What a great comment! I would have apologized too.

We would have a single bumble bee that would visit my strawberry garden and would do so daily. If we werent outside it would buzz my trailer door looking for us. I got to teach my daughter how to pet one.

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Interesting. I live in Virginia (Portsmouth) and I had no idea "state pollinator" was even a thing.

When the invasive animal gets more recognition than the native bees. That’s so sad.

@@charlesajones77it would be helpful if you could spread the word/or send a letter to legislators, petitioning for bumblebees

Somebody has got to pollinate all that tobacco, I guess.

in Spain they even made an outdoor testing and showed that Honey bees (even theyr native to Europe) will harm the evoriment more then help it Honey bees are only good for pollination of huge crop fields or fruit bushes/trees cause wild polinators would be simply overwhelmed with that many flowers

It is quite self-serving. We need to save the bees from the bees!

I mean its like saving grazers by breeding and releasing cows, honeybees as we know them are domesticated animals

@@astick5249 only in the US ,Australia etc Africa and Europe /Asie have wild honey bees but these nests arent as calm and nice to humans as the ones beekeepers have beekeepers generally eratuicate wild honey bee nests cause they will breed with domesticatet ones and give the " wild" agressive " genes to them and humans cant handle getting stung by theyr own bees they want tzo put theyr entire hand inside without the bees doing anything but thats also why these bees are so frail to bear,hornet etc attacks cause they will then also dont really fight back

We put so much effort into saving the wrong bees meanwhile our native bees get pushed out by the invasive species.

Transformer Bumblebee come to my head 😂😂😂 with this comment

Good luck with the little buzzers!🤞

I wonder how does a bumblebee fly given its small wings compared to their big bodies😁

@@b01tact10n With small flyers air reacts differently. For them, creating vortexes below them gives a lot of upward boost. They do this by putting their wings vertical and swishing them back and forth quickly. Humming birds do the exact same thing. For a small creature it is vastly more energy efficient and also enables them to hover and move backward and side to side with precision. Pretty cool, eh? Edit for typo

@@JilynnFurlet what about 90's Charles Barkley😁👍👍

OMG! That's so cute!🥹

@@sapphirejade5029 started on that day , learn life about animal, they had emotions too

I love your beautiful poem. Made my day better. Please never lose your perspective. ❤ ​@@leongliyang6946

This must be a poem

Dandelions are nonnative and their pollen is not very nutritious. You're better off planting native plants, especially trees and shrubs. Most native plants are helpful for dozens or even hundreds of species besides just bees.

@@pendlera2959 Of course you can still plant more flowers, I wasn’t saying not to. My comment was more aimed at folks who start mowing the second the weather turns.

Dandelion tea is good for supporting your liver health. And young leaves taste better than the old ones ( bitter ). Just don't harvest near areas that have exposure to exhaust fumes and other harmful chemicals. The dandy's are everywhere, good luck trying to get rid of them.​@@pendlera2959

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They look like a little pompom poofball with little wings and they're so cute!

I do not like them at all. They scare the shit out of me. I used to run away to the next county over if one flew close to me.

Fuzzy little chonks.

​@@sforza209They're not really aggressive at all. Worry about murder hornets and disease-carrying mosquitoes.

~70% of the average animal is water. Ergo, all animals are at least 70% fish.

@@alexv3357"Water = fish" - guy on KZfaq 2024

Also, the jumping ribbit fish and even web-weaving fish... lol.

@@AkitaAttribute Is it just me or did my comment disappear? I can't see it

@@alexv3357Yeah unless I click on the notification, I can't even see this comment you just made.

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they're definitely less scary than carpenter bees... those jet black ones are kinda shocking when they show up suddenly.

YES! They're so cute!

in Europe where no Hummingbirds exist red flowers simply get pollinatet by Bumblebees and Moths

Bumblebees visit our pink, red, and purple azaleas every spring.

@@Kurominos1 Aw, now I'm very sad for Europeans. Still mostly envious, mind, but hummingbirds are delightful.

@@QuesoCookies we have actually a huge amount of hummingbird-hawk moths some who are getting bigger the most hummingbirds theyr also way more sturdieer then real hummingbirds like the deathskull-hawkmoth flys all the way from madagascar to central europe right over the seas with no problem somethign a hummingbird never could do cause it have to drink every few minutes to not starve

@@Kurominos1 Hummingbird hawk-moths are great, indeed, but hummingbirds are more than just the mystique of sustaining stationary flight while feeding on nectar. Hummingbirds are packed with personality and have vigorous territorial disputes, which can lead to really complex social dynamics and dazzling, high-speed, and acrobatic conflicts. Hummingbird-hawk moths win on impressive endurance given the nature of the shared flying style, but hummingbirds win on pizzazz.

Bombus dahlbomii has the largest queens in the world, and they are sometimes colloquially called flying mice

Dandelions are nonnative and their pollen is not very nutritious. You're better off planting native plants, especially trees and shrubs. Most native plants are helpful for dozens or even hundreds of species besides just bees.

What the other guy said. Plus, dandelions are definitely not low in number, it's rare to not see a few patches in the suburbs, and they thrive on hostile, heavily mowed lawns or empty lots while tolerating a wide range of pollutants. Only the most potent stuff will kill them, which I suppose can be linked to a threat to bumblebees, but only because everything else is being killed worse than the targeted dandelions. There are several weedy plants native to America that are far more beneficial to bumblebees and many other native pollinators, like beebalm, milkweed, common-blue violets (more beneficial to smaller pollinators like sweat bees), shooting star, and various native nightshades. If these are growing around, you're better off encouraging them to thrive.

​@chitinskin9860 ever since I was a kid, I usually don't mind seeing dandelions. My parents NEVER used ANY sort of chemical on the front and back yards. Ever since then, we get MANY bumblebees around the warm seasons.

@@sapphirejade5029 It's great that your property isn't polluted, should mean it's more tolerable for things less hardy than dandelions too. An addition of the flowers I mentioned would make the bumblebees even more abundant, along with many other pollinators.

@@chitinskin9860 we also don't use pesticides on the yard, too, and I don't care about what people think about what my lawn looks like. I grew up around many forests surrounding my childhood home, and I would hike around there from time to time. I see some little bumblebees hanging out and smile knowing the little guys are getting what they need to survive: Lots of pollen and nectar. In turn, I get to see the wonderful flowers and photograph them for the memories, even with a little one on them gorging away for the long run. I respect them and in turn, I see their wonderful work in the many flowers and trees I see while hiking.😊

European honey bees are introduced, not invasive. They're only considered invasive if they do significant harm to the native ecosystem.

Maybe you can try growing unhybridized native plants. European bees tend to be less attracted to native flowers since they sometimes have structures that don't really accommodate them. Particularly good are natives that support specialist native bees. Some examples in my region (southeast) are penstemons and blueberries. The Xerces Society has checklists for each region of the US.

@@pendlera2959 the above anecdote makes a strong case for calling them invasive in and of itself, at least within the ecosystem nolandonohue describes, but generally honey bees do have a detrimental impact on native species -- depending on your focal lens. it's certainly a debatable point, but i personally would tend to call honey bees that reside "in the wild" in the Americas, invasive. i think it is useful to distinguish between that subset and the majority of honey bees which i'd instead refer to as livestock. to use an analogy, i don't consider chickens to be invasive though they are nonnative, and instead i consider them livestock. but if a warehouse-worth of chickens was dumped into a state park resulting in the spread of avian influenza to the pheasants and the turkeys and the quails, etc., then i would consider that population of chickens to be invasive.

Correct, honey bees are typically classified as domesticated livestock and are bred at scale. Any European honeybee you see is either a feral bee, or probably belongs to someone with a backyard hive. One of the challenges that exists in protecting native pollinators is that hobby apiarists. The rules are pretty loose, so you can get a lot of these domesticated bees in a very small area competing for resources. The denser the population, the more likely they are to spread parasites and diseases to native pollinators.

​ @Fabdanc i mean, technically honey bee populations aren't stable. the industry continues to see enormous losses year to year. however, as most honey bee populations are, as you note, predominantly colonies that are kept as livestock, they benefit from human interventions which can take advantage of the eusocial nature of their lifecycle to "split a hive" which converts one healthy colony into two. furthermore there is an international trade in honey bee queens which facilitates attempts at genetic interventions, and, again, makes it easy to convert X colonies that survived winter into 2X colonies to start your pollination season. i would argue that it is not the case that honey bee populations are stable per se, but rather that strong economic incentives, coupled with their biology, makes it incredibly unlikely for their populations to ever be endangered. furthermore, i'd argue that honey bee populations, in the absence of human stewardship, would actually be incredibly unstable. i strongly agree with your assessment of the impact that honey bees have on local resource competition among pollinators and on disease dynamics. but you might also consider that each honey bee colony is in competition with every other colony. considering that the majority of honey bee populations, or colonies at least (setting aside difficulties around defining and delineating a singular 'population'), are densely aggregated around monocultural agricultural fields (farms that plant a single crop), one would expect a) uber-intense resource competition and b) sky high disease incidence/transmission probabilities. additionally, having in essence only one plant to eat from a) can result in nutrient deficiencies and b) likely means a single flowering window after which there would be next to nil pollen and nectar to sustain the colonies. honey bees are therefore, on the whole, living in conditions of imminent starvation and probable disease outbreak. only due to human induced migration of these colonies on the trailers of semis are they kept *relatively* healthy and well fed. they are in essence synthetically maintained at population sizes that exceed the carrying capacity of their immediate environment -- not unlike chickens on a Tyson farm. sans apiarists, the honey bee populations of the Americas would crash, but probably only until they reached carrying capacity. last honey bee point i will make (thanks for reading this far) -- i appreciate your usage of the term feral, but personally i'd advocate for calling them invasive (supposing you are, for example, residing in the Americas) as they are a non-native species that has been shown to have detrimental impacts on native species and ecological function. (if you reside in Europe/Middle East/Africa I think feral is more appropriate) a point regarding bumble bees -- as noted above, an important aspect of the "sustainability" of honey bee populations is their eusociality. bumble bees benefit from this same feature (excepting a few cuckoo species of subgenus Psithyrus). eusociality makes bumble bees, like honey bees, a very valuable crop pollination tool. therefore strong economic incentives have led to the development of mass produced bumble bee colonies that anyone can purchase. in the U.S. we currently, i believe, only have Bombus impatiens available, and purchases are restricted to states in the species' native range (i think). however, internationally a great bit of muck has been created by the importation of Bombus terrestris colonies from Europe to countries such as Chile and Japan among many others. in those ecosystems B. terrestris has outcompeted native bumble bees and introduced diseases.

you can find native flower seed packets. depending on which region in California you are.

We ARE fish, but bees are not (except in the minds of California politicians, who may not be humans). Check out the series "Your Inner Fish".

Or we rely on proven technologies instead of hypotheticals that might work out or not.