Sound up 🔊 Common carder bee 🐝🎶 Happiness levels 😊📈 One of the Big Eight, the common carder bee is, as the name suggests, a widespread common species and is found almost everywhere in the UK. How to identify a Common carder bee? 👀 👑💼🚹 Queens, workers and males have the same colour pattern 🟡🟤 Thorax is covered by yellow-brown or gingery, scruffy hair with a mix of black hairs 🟡🟤 The abdomen is also covered by yellow-brown or gingery hair. Here it tends to be thin, long and scruffy ⚫

3.3K views · 136 reactions | The Eastern bumble bee is the most common bee in Ohio and an essential pollinator. They have “fur” all over their bodies that traps pollen and moves it from flower to flower as they collect nectar and pollen for food. Bumble bees are social, like honey bees. Unlike honey bees, queens only live for one year. This is one of the queen’s busy female workers gathering food from beebalm. ~NS, Naturalist | Cleveland Metroparks | Facebook

68M views · 795K reactions | Spending an incredible 4 hours 10 minutes and 5 seconds with his head covered in bees, Nature M S from Kerala, India attempted this record to raise awareness of the importance of honey bees and apiculture  | Guinness World Records | Facebook