Talk:Bumblebee

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Evolution history

Would it be possible to post information regarding the species that bumblebees evolved from? --Figfires (talk) 21:50, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's unlikely the actual palaeo-species will ever be found as it would be one of many similar fossils, but the history is outlined and diagrammed in the Phylogeny section of the article. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:04, 11 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Honey bees

The article refers to honey bees as relatives of bumble bees. It could point out that honey bees are in a different genus. Vorbee (talk) 07:51, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bumble bees naturally colonising Tasmania from New Zealand?

The article currently states "The New Zealand population of buff-tailed bumblebees naturally colonised Tasmania, 1,500 miles away, in 1992.[99]" This seems unlikely. I can't find the source referenced.

This article suggests they were brought in: http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2012/09/18/3592865.htm

Seems unlikely that the bees would naturally make it all the way from NZ to Tasmania, to then be thwarted by the small gap between tasmania and the mainland. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.210.59.205 (talk) 10:59, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, nice catch! I managed to track down the text of the original source through a bit of Googling(I'm not linking to the site I found, since it's probably a copyright violation), but it doesn't say they came to Australia naturally at all, so i've removed the offending word from that senteence. Graham87 14:56, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've tweaked that text further. Graham87 15:15, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

wrong example

"Harmless insects such as hoverflies often derive protection from resembling bumblebees, in Batesian mimicry, and may be confused with them."

-the above statement is either wrong or poorly sourced (my bet is the 1st). all pictures at the hoverflies link look like WASPS and not like bumblebees. so plase either supply an image of a hoverfly looking hairy like a bumblebee, or otherwise resembling, ie.: color pattern, or, if the hoverfly article can not be brought into coherence with this statement, perhaps because hoverflies do look like yellowjackets and not like bumblebees (hoverfly: hairless and black-yellow striped like a wasp, not like a hairy and often other than black-yellow stripes) then remove the contradictory statement from the bumblebee article accordingly and relocate this sentence to the wasp (or yellowjacket, or something similar) article - where it obviously belongs. 89.134.199.32 (talk) 15:21, 5 June 2019 (UTC).[reply]