What Are Bumble Bees Fascinating?

Every living organism has a unique ability or trait that allows them to perform a specific role in their environment, and makes them fascinating in many different ways. These traits and abilities create a vast diversity among the many environments on Earth. The four insects that were most fascinating to me are: The American bumble bee, Venus fly trap, black widow spider, and the Burmese python snake. The American bumble bee has a lot of characteristics that make it fascinating. One of these characteristics is the bumble bees’ organization of their colonies. There are three types of bumble bees, the queen, the workers, and the drones. The queen bee starts a nest in a pre-existing abandoned home of another animal, usually in the ground. The
The workers, females, carry out the duties for the hive such as, protecting it, and feeding it. Commonly mistaken with other bees, only the workers and the queen have stingers on the end of their abdomen. Another false idea about the bumble bee is when the bumble bee stings a predator, the stinger detaches from the bumble bee and it dies. The bumble bees’ stinger has no hooks or barbs on it so it doesn’t detach from the bee, and the bee still survives, allowing the bumble bee to attack predators multiple times. The workers also have a very important role in helping their hive by collecting pollen, which in the process helps the environment with the pollination of plants. The workers of the hive go out to collect nectar from flowers and feed themselves, and only produce enough honey to feed the young bees. Bumble bees can be found in northern regions and in higher altitudes than other bees because of their furry bodies and their unique ability to control their own body temperature. The buzzing that bumble bee’s produce is not produced by the flapping of the bee’s wings, but is produced when the bumble bee vibrates it’s muscles to warm
The venus flytrap is fascinating because it is the most well-known carnivorous plant. The plant’s leaves are an attractive red pigment and have nectar to attract prey. They have tiny hair stimulants on the inner portion, when two hair stimulants are touched within twenty seconds or the same hair touched rapidly twice, it causes the trap to close. The venus flytrap can close it’s leaves, on average, as fast as one-tenth of a second. The plant also knows when it is touched by non-living organisms such as rain. The trap has cilia on the outer edges to prevent larger prey from escaping. The trap also has a mesh that allows too small of prey to escape because it would use more energy to digest it. If prey does not escape the plant starts to digest and prepares a stomach. It takes about three days for the plant to digest the prey into chitin and then the trap reopens. The plant’s diet consists of mostly ants, spiders, beetles, and grasshoppers; Only five percent of it’s diet are flying insects. The venus flytrap is the most complex and advanced carnivorous plant known to