Insects Database
Insects
 Ants
 Arachnids
 Bees
 Beetles
 Booklice - Barkflies
 Bugs
 Bumblebees
 Cicadas
 Crane flies
 Dragonflies
 Earwigs
 Flies
 Isopods
 Locusts
 Mosquitoes
 Moths & Butterflies
 Plant-parasitic Hemipterans
 Praying Mantises
 Wasps


Photography with cameras
Nikon D3x, Nikon D300, Canon 50D
Image editing with Photoshop
Webdesign @ Pixel-Partisan.com

Keyword: Mice


Overview - a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Seite 1 von 1     
Queens overwinter. They appear in March or April. Bombus pascuorum nest both above ground (old birds’ nests) and below ground (abandoned mice nests). The bees use moss, grass and animal hairs to construct a hollow sphere inside the nest. The interior of the hollow sphere is sealed with wax. The queen then forms a small tub of wax, puts pollen in it and then lays 5 to 15 eggs on the polle...
>> Bumblebees -> Bombus pascuorum
... on nectar and pollen from a variety of plants. The flight period of queens begins in April, (that of the young Bombus sylvarum in July) and ends in late October. A colony comprises 80 to 100 insects. The nests are built in small animal burrows (mice holes).
>> Bumblebees -> Shrill Carder-bee
...s, on parts of plants - phytophagous, on faeces - coprophagous, or by preying on adult insects, insects’ larvae or on snails. Dendroxena quadrimaculata live off caterpillars, while members of the genus Nicrophorus bury the corpses of small animals (mice, moles etc.) and dig an incubator for oviposition alongside them. The females form small balls out of the dead tissue with which they feed the larvae after hatching. Beetles of the genera Thanatophilus, Necrodes and Silpha also live on carrion, but ...
>> Beetles -> Carrion Beetles


Quick search: Plants - Small - Pollen - Feed - Colony - Animal
Insects - Bombus - Nests - Larvae - Silphidae - Nest - October - Wax
Keywords
abcdefghijklm
nopqrstuvwxyz
German Flag German
 Contact
 Copyrights
 Imprint
 New pictures
 Unknown insects
 Unknown spiders
Frequent Queries: