close image bumblebee pollinating wild rose

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Close up image of a bumblebee pollinating a wild rose

Close up image of a bumblebee pollinating a wild rose. Bumblebees are social insects that form colonies with a single queen. Like their relatives the honeybees, bumblebees feed on nectar, using their long hairy tongues to lap up the liquid; the proboscis is folded under the head during flight. Bumblebees gather nectar to add to the stores in the nest, and pollen to feed their young. They forage using colour and spatial relationships to identify flowers to feed from.