{"id":49290,"date":"2025-03-17T14:31:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/blog\/how-to-feed-bumble-bee-colony-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T09:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:03:34","slug":"everything-you-didnt-know-about-pollination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/fr\/blog\/everything-you-didnt-know-about-pollination\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything you didn&#8217;t know about pollination and why bumble bees are the real MVPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-50am3vn-d62f95d386a8b947a9f4251f17ee9b96 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  blog-inner avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div 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src='https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/BumblesareMVPs.png' alt='' title='BumblesareMVPs'  height=\"738\" width=\"1019\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-lh99b6wg-6ced092c2a0c374623435df33a25b771\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-lh99b6wg-6ced092c2a0c374623435df33a25b771{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-lh99b6wg-6ced092c2a0c374623435df33a25b771 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-lh99b6wg-6ced092c2a0c374623435df33a25b771 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-lh99b6wg-6ced092c2a0c374623435df33a25b771 av-special-heading-h1 blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_image  el_before_av_post_metadata'><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Everything you didn\u2019t know about pollination and why bumble bees are the real MVPs<\/h1><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-ft9dsz-852daf6f476c3a8a0af3f364ce8090dd\">\n#top .av-post-metadata-container.av-ft9dsz-852daf6f476c3a8a0af3f364ce8090dd{\nfont-size:16px;\n}\n#top .av-post-metadata-container.av-ft9dsz-852daf6f476c3a8a0af3f364ce8090dd .av-post-metadata-container-inner{\nfont-size:16px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-post-metadata-container av-ft9dsz-852daf6f476c3a8a0af3f364ce8090dd av-metadata-container-align-left  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_heading  avia-builder-el-last  av-metadata-container-1'><div class='av-post-metadata-container-inner'><span class=\"av-post-metadata-content av-post-metadata-meta-content\"><span class=\"av-post-metadata-content av-post-metadata-published\"><span class=\"av-metadata-before av-metadata-before-published\">Publi\u00e9 le<\/span><span class=\"av-post-metadata-published-date\" >mars 17, 2025<\/span><\/span><span class=\"av-post-metadata-content av-post-metadata-separator\"><\/span><span class=\"av-post-metadata-content av-post-metadata-author\"  itemprop=\"author\" ><span class=\"av-metadata-before av-metadata-before-author\">par<\/span><span class=\"av-post-metadata-author-name\" >Cole Blair<\/span><\/span><span class=\"av-post-metadata-content av-post-metadata-separator\"><\/span><span class=\"av-post-metadata-content av-post-metadata-category\"><span class=\"av-metadata-before av-metadata-before-categories\">|<\/span><span class=\"av-post-metadata-category-link\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/fr\/blog\/category\/bumble-bee-recovery\/\" >R\u00e9tablissement des bourdons<\/a><\/span>, <span class=\"av-post-metadata-category-link\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/fr\/species\/bumble-bees\/\" >Les bourdons<\/a><\/span>, <span class=\"av-post-metadata-category-link\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/fr\/blog\/category\/events\/\" >Events<\/a><\/span>, <span class=\"av-post-metadata-category-link\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/fr\/blog\/project\/native-pollinator-initiative\/\" >Initiative pour les pollinisateurs indig\u00e8nes<\/a><\/span>, <span class=\"av-post-metadata-category-link\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/fr\/blog\/category\/news-and-events\/\" >Actualit\u00e9s et \u00e9v\u00e9nements<\/a><\/span>, <span class=\"av-post-metadata-category-link\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/fr\/blog\/project\/pollinators\/\" >Pollinisateurs<\/a><\/span>, <span class=\"av-post-metadata-category-link\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/fr\/species\/yellow-banded-bumblebee\/\" >Bourdon terricole<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"av-post-metadata-content av-post-metadata-after-meta\">Photo: T. Harrison<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_2'  class='avia-section av-2levihv-7d594f448fd56703f833a30acbeb6b83 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_section  species-inner-content-intro-wrapper avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-49290'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-lwozfkxw-e701412e37556bffd1dbdbce072a6da4\">\n.flex_column.av-lwozfkxw-e701412e37556bffd1dbdbce072a6da4{\npadding:25px 25px 25px 25px;\nbackground-color:#f8fbf4;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-lwozfkxw-e701412e37556bffd1dbdbce072a6da4 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-5  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  light-section first flex_column_div'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-lwozeuwx-ff0b33494a0457f34010075781828eec'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>What is the Bumble Bee Recovery Program? Since the 1990s, bumble bee numbers have been plummeting, and that spells ecological disaster. Ninety per cent of all flowering plants \u2014 including most of the fruits and vegetables in your fridge \u2014 need these pollinators in order to reproduce.<\/p>\n<p>Until the causes of these declines can be reversed, conservation breeding and reintroduction is the only way to safeguard at-risk bumble bees. Today, WPC is the only organization in Canada rebuilding wild bee populations through conservation breeding. Thanks to recent breakthroughs, we\u2019ve figured out how to dramatically increase the number of queens we produce. Once they\u2019re released into the wild, they can establish their own colonies, producing hundreds of pollinators to sustain the ecosystems around them.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-n73l2z-a8d48a66fe4a7e686ad3d94549b09482 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-lwhvy05h-05268649aaceb0b16a3f3b4201fa2d05'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pollinators come in many different sizes and shapes. Bees, butterflies, moths, beetles\u2026 the list goes on! Even non-insects like bats and hummingbirds contribute to pollination. Despite this huge diversity among pollinators, the process of insect or animal-assisted pollination remains largely the same no matter who does it: pollen grains, which are the genetic material of male flowers, are transferred to the stigma of female flowers. Once attached to the stigma, the pollen grains are moved to the ovules, which are the genetic material of female flowers. The fertilized ovules then develop into seeds, allowing the plant to reproduce.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we outline the process of pollination, it becomes abundantly clear that there is a deep relationship between the insects and animals that facilitate pollination, and the plants that rely on them to reproduce. <strong>It is estimated that approximately three-quarters of all plants in North America require an animal or insect to carry out their reproduction. But what do the pollinators get out of this?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pollinators don\u2019t pollinate out of the goodness of their own hearts (though they are all very sweet in our eyes!). The reality is that pollination, when done by an animal or insect, is an unintended consequence of the foraging behaviours of those animals and insects. Let\u2019s take bees for example. From flowers, bees forage pollen, which acts as their source of protein, lipids and other crucial nutrients. They also forage nectar, which acts as their source of sugars. Bees visit male flowers for pollen, the pollen is dusted onto their bodies and is then transferred to the stigma of female flowers that they subsequently visit for additional nectar. In this regard, the relationship between pollinators and plants is a mutualistic transaction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, we know that many plant species need assistance from pollinators to reproduce, and we also know that these pollinators gain important nutrients when pollinating these plants. However, <strong>not all pollinators can pollinate as well as others!<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Differences between insect groups affect both the variety of plants they can pollinate and how effectively they do it . Let\u2019s first consider two insect groups, both pollinators, that are wildly different from each other: butterflies and bumble bees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Butterflies<\/strong> use their incredibly long tongues to slurp up nectar from flowers, but their long legs keep their bodies away from the flower itself, making pollen less likely to stick to them (but they still pick up some!). Butterflies are also solitary insects, meaning they only need to forage enough to sustain themselves. On the other hand, bumble bees have shorter tongues and legs, resulting in their bodies coming into more direct contact with the flower. <strong>Bumble bees<\/strong> will often, very cutely, insert their bodies into flowers to reach pollen and nectar \u2013 I always love seeing a bumble bee\u2019s bum sticking out of a flower while it feasts! The bodies of bumble bees are also extensively hairy, readily picking up pollen when they grasp onto a flower. Since they are a eusocial species (a species living in colonies with divisions of labour and cooperation) with an entire colony to care for, bumble bees will forage farther and longer than solitary species, packing their leg pouches full of pollen from many different plants before bringing it back to their nest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-7hdwe0k-d05e2da22d8b03c82364e47e0d010209 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-7916cd0-2d4a9e77890ff8cc7a5147f855037692\">\n.avia-image-container.av-7916cd0-2d4a9e77890ff8cc7a5147f855037692 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-7916cd0-2d4a9e77890ff8cc7a5147f855037692 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-7916cd0-2d4a9e77890ff8cc7a5147f855037692 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-10  avia-builder-el-no-sibling'   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-49296 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-49296 avia_image' src='https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/butterflyvsbumblebeeBLOG.png' alt='' title='butterflyvsbumblebeeBLOG'  height=\"738\" width=\"1019\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-j5ne10-f6498761e392f7de8bf28444c501901e av_one_full  avia-builder-el-11  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-lwktbop1-014744ec2bf49d98171564497da74e4b'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Left: butterfly foraging from flower (by nola.agent on flickr, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CC BY 2.0<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). Right: yellow-banded bumble bee foraging from willow catkins (by Tiffani Harrison). Notice the length of the butterfly\u2019s tongue and the distance between its body and the flower! Contrast this with how close the bumble bee gets to the flower in order to access pollen and nectar. Though both of these organisms are considered pollinators, this one difference alone makes bumble bees much more effective. The yellow glob on the bumble bee\u2019s leg is pollen that she\u2019s packed to bring back to her colony. Bees must visit many flowers to collect this much, while butterflies only need to visit as many flowers as is necessary for their own nectar needs.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-u163fu-51e5e2908ce281bda98a75ac45a54a0d av_one_full  avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-m8dh59m9-7f33aca059549e47df960a80fc8f449d'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s now consider two insect groups that are fairly close in their evolutionary relation. They are both bees (belonging to the family Apidae); both are eusocial, with colonies of workers that serve a queen; and both are generalist foragers that pollinate a variety of plants. However, only one of these two bees makes honey, and that same bee is both not native to North America and is incapable of performing <\/span><b><i>buzz pollination<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s right! I am of course talking about our beloved bumble bees and the well-known honey bee. <strong>There are approximately 46 species of bumble bee native to North America<\/strong>, such as the yellow-banded bumble bee (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bourdon terricola<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, listed as Special Concern in Canada) that we work with in our Bumble Bee Conservation Lab. Unlike the European honey bee (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apis mellifera<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), which was brought to North America by 17th century colonial settlers, bumble bees cannot produce honey. But what they <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> do is buzz pollinate \u2013 something that honey bees cannot do effectively.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>So, what is buzz pollination, and why is it such a big deal that bumble bees can do it?<\/strong> Buzz pollination is a specific method of pollination that uses intense vibrations to dislodge pollen from flowers that hold onto it rather tightly. \u2018Dislodge\u2019 might not be as accurate to describe what is essentially a pollen explosion, with pollen grains forcibly bursting from the flower. This burst coats the pollinator\u2019s body with enough pollen to ensure that it fertilizes a female of that same plant species if it is subsequently visited. The evolved reluctance to give up pollen is how these plants maintain energetic efficiency. If they readily give up pollen to less effective pollinators, like the butterfly example we discussed earlier, then they must waste additional energy to produce more pollen and hope that enough insects visit them to ensure their reproduction. Instead, plants that evolved the need for buzz pollination require only a single visit from a capable pollinator to be sufficiently pollinated. The trade-off for these plants is of course that not all pollinators are able to pollinate them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-1838jmy-cb1450f41f9656858ed2d126b8cb5d21 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-15  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-m8dhawky-d266e1f57e89b208d16b8f0e66ba0493\">\n.avia-image-container.av-m8dhawky-d266e1f57e89b208d16b8f0e66ba0493 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-m8dhawky-d266e1f57e89b208d16b8f0e66ba0493 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-m8dhawky-d266e1f57e89b208d16b8f0e66ba0493 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-16  avia-builder-el-no-sibling'   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-49298 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-49298 avia_image' src='https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bumblebee_pollinationblog.png' alt='' title='Bumblebee_pollinationblog'  height=\"738\" width=\"1019\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-2ct6kq-dc4ee83eed2f2834fd7094d3ada9b1e7 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-17  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-m8dhb7r4-754c5a5a2187734d5284702f74033feb'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A common eastern bumble bee buzz pollinating spotted knapweed (by Tino Breuer, a dedicated volunteer of our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/fr\/participate-community-science\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pinery Provincial Park Community Science Program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). Note the white specks covering the legs and head of the bee. Those are pollen grains that the bee dislodged through vibrations! The pollen burst from the flower and coated the foraging bee. Some pollen will be stored in the pollen pouch of the bee, but some will fertilize female knapweeds.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-20i7j8q-c0aa047c7956fd79164908e90761580a av_one_full  avia-builder-el-19  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-m8dhoil6-cb262eb1c026f5ce80bd43a4f3e68b45'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>What makes a bee capable of buzz pollination is a combination of their anatomy and behaviour<\/strong>. On the anatomical side, it is the flight muscles that are involved in buzz pollination. Flight muscles are generally divided into two different types: direct flight muscles, which connect to the wings to make them beat, and indirect flight muscles, which connect to the inside of the thorax. When indirect flight muscles contract, the shape of the thorax itself begins to change, which in turn forces the wings to move up or down. Indirect flight muscles are larger and can generate a lot more force than direct flight muscles. It is this force, produced through the rapid contraction and relaxation of indirect flight muscles, that creates the \u201cbuzz\u201d necessary for buzz pollination. All bees have indirect flight muscles; however not all bees have indirect flight muscles large enough to generate the force needed to expel the pollen from these flowers. Honey bees are technically able to vibrate their wings via their indirect flight muscles, but they cannot do so at a frequency as high as bumble bees, which makes buzz pollination quite difficult for them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-5u72kq-8c9c1771115ca67eec84eb2e783e33f2 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-21  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-m8dhuxj0-579096a1d3c8e146dc13754901fa3033\">\n.avia-image-container.av-m8dhuxj0-579096a1d3c8e146dc13754901fa3033 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-m8dhuxj0-579096a1d3c8e146dc13754901fa3033 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-m8dhuxj0-579096a1d3c8e146dc13754901fa3033 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-22  avia-builder-el-no-sibling'   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-49300 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-49300 avia_image' src='https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/honeybeevsbumble.png' alt='' title='honeybeevsbumble'  height=\"738\" width=\"1019\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-3tqm96-35de012d2ea5a9251040b24777a6e102 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-23  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-m8dhv6s9-0ab36646536c393e8183db15ae023737'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Left: a European honey bee visiting a flower (by Bernard Spragg on flickr, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CC0 1.0<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). Right: an American bumble bee foraging from viper\u2019s bugloss (by Cole Blair). The larger bodies of bumble bees, particularly in the thorax, allows for bigger and stronger indirect flight muscles compared to honey bees. This allows bumble bees to buzz pollinate a wider variety of plants.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-nq9ssq-9981da9b14a1b2b824f984f565c37968 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-25  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-m8dhsbue-ca28bf0cf8a922a1d2056b2408ec77bb'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The foraging behaviour of honey bees also makes them ineffective as buzz pollinators. As with most foraging animals, a bee will seek out meals that are easy to access, while avoiding meals that are hard to secure. Honey bees may shake loose <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">some<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the tightly-held pollen from these flowers, but not much, and often not enough to make up for the time and energy spent acquiring it. As such, honey bees will often avoid flowers that require buzz pollination in favor of flowers that do not. In contrast, bumble bees will happily seek flowers that need buzz pollination, despite the energetic toll. This is because not many other insects can access that pollen, so the likelihood of securing a big meal is quite high!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Buzz pollination is critical due to the sheer number of plants that require it. Many have wild and cultivated varieties, such as blueberries, cranberries, tomatoes, pumpkins, zucchinis and potatoes. Wildflowers that need buzz pollination include lupins, nightshades, mints (including catnip!), orchids and many others. <strong>All of these plants \u2013 and, by extension, all of the animals that rely on them, including us \u2013 need buzz pollinators.<\/strong> Several solitary native bees including mining bees, digger bees, sweat bees and leafcutter bees can also perform buzz pollination, but none do it quite as well as the bumble bee!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>And they need our help!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While honey bees often take the spotlight due to their role in agriculture and honey production, they are not native to North America. Some headlines tell us that honey bees are in decline, however as an agricultural animal, they are not at risk of extinction in Canada. In fact, honey bees do so well that they often outcompete our native bees for food and can spread diseases to wild populations, especially when in high densities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although some bumble bees are also used commercially in agriculture, such as the common eastern bumble bee (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bombus impatiens<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), the unfortunate reality is that about a quarter of North America\u2019s bumble bee species are in decline. Without them, our delicate ecosystems, along with our food production, are jeopardized.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We all want to save the bees, but it is important that the bees we save are <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">actually<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in need of saving. To help native bees around you, consider planting pollinator-friendly native flowers, leaving parts of your property unmanaged, leaving the leaves in your yard, and please refrain from spraying pesticides.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-23mobey-1e0db82e432389c41aa7689aac3862c0 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-27  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1julvwq-70516cbbb3f33e07b9b2dac18c5188af\">\n.avia-image-container.av-1julvwq-70516cbbb3f33e07b9b2dac18c5188af img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-1julvwq-70516cbbb3f33e07b9b2dac18c5188af .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-1julvwq-70516cbbb3f33e07b9b2dac18c5188af av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-28  avia-builder-el-no-sibling'   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-49303 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-49303 avia_image' src='https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TwoEndangeredBumbles.png' alt='' title='TwoEndangeredBumbles'  height=\"738\" width=\"1019\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-19tt7be-34e9fbf7c333a7b4a677750d9b4c4790 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-29  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-m8dhw5e1-23b5872ebdc23e2d3a33f6f5c5130aa0'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two bumble bee species federally listed as Endangered in Canada: the rusty-patched bumble bee (left) and the Ashton cuckoo bumble bee (right) (photos by Sheila Colla). The rusty-patched has not been recorded in Canada since 2009, and the Ashton cuckoo has not been recorded in Ontario since 2008. Five other Canadian species and subspecies have been assessed as either Special Concern or Threatened by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-io5aui-48d99a37da996f1fc79e0f0411911d5e av_one_full  avia-builder-el-31  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_hr  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-m8dhwmyt-f588520d50799f2c3859347e84d0d35b'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><b>What you need to know:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many different insects and animals pollinate plants, but some do it better than others due to differences in their body structures and foraging methods.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Buzz pollination is the intense contracting of indirect flight muscles to remove pollen by high frequency vibrations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Buzz pollination is needed to pollinate a variety of wildflowers and food crops.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Honey bees are not native to North America and are not effective buzz pollinators because of their small indirect flight muscles and their selection against flowers that require buzz pollination.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several native bees are capable of buzz pollination because they co-evolved with native plants!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bumble bees are the best buzz pollinators because of their big hairy bodies and social colonies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Honey bees are not declining in North America due to their fixture as an agricultural commodity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our native bees are in decline.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What you can do to help:\u00a0 plant native flowers and allow parts of your outdoor space to naturalize!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-m7apia9a-9519614042d6e3aba21dc2bc4004c3d0\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-m7apia9a-9519614042d6e3aba21dc2bc4004c3d0{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-m7apia9a-9519614042d6e3aba21dc2bc4004c3d0 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-33  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last'><span class='hr-inner'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_3'  class='avia-section av-1c28nfn-b43226128f209289cfc90758c79f8147 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-34  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_section  blog-inner avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-49290'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div  class='flex_column av-rs2n4z-8fed8e8a96cdfebce06b2081ea3cf81e av_one_full  avia-builder-el-35  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  author-section first flex_column_div'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-lhhwhp6e-a690ccf4b4f4aac4efe348d582491d6a'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Cole Blair<\/h3>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">Coordonnatrice des programmes en Ontario \u2013 Programme de r\u00e9tablissement des bourdons<\/h5>\n<div class=\"flex_column av-11pnj4y-c28e6186d614efe88a31a98b3b23fcf7 av_one_full avia-builder-el-4 el_before_av_button avia-builder-el-first first flex_column_div\">\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section av-lfinmiyb-90c4ad80094a4867a0ba1b85f88c1e83\">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock\">\n<p>Cole\u2019s time with WPC began as a graduate student at the University of Toronto, where he researched harmful parasites in bumble bees (he looked at a LOT of bee poop). He has since played a supporting role as a technician in both the field and in our bumble bee Conservation Breeding Lab. As the Ontario Program Coordinator, Cole hopes to demonstrate to others that any conservation engagement \u2013 no matter how big or small \u2013 can go a long way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-lhhwi5fx-01526e696ba18bb7142ca5701697410f\">\n.avia-image-container.av-lhhwi5fx-01526e696ba18bb7142ca5701697410f img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-lhhwi5fx-01526e696ba18bb7142ca5701697410f .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-lhhwi5fx-01526e696ba18bb7142ca5701697410f av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-37  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last  author-pic'   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" 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hentry category-bumble-bee-recovery category-news-and-events project-native-pollinator-initiative specific-species-bumble-bees\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" ><div class=\"blog-meta\"><\/div><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix standard-content'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Post: Fieldwork forays\"><div class=\"av-heading-wrapper\"><h2 class='post-title entry-title'  itemprop=\"headline\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/fr\/blog\/fieldwork-forays\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link: Fieldwork forays\">S'aventurer sur le terrain<span class=\"post-format-icon minor-meta\"><\/span><\/a><\/h2><span class=\"blog-categories minor-meta\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/fr\/blog\/category\/bumble-bee-recovery\/\" rel=\"tag\">R\u00e9tablissement des bourdons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/fr\/blog\/category\/news-and-events\/\" rel=\"tag\">Actualit\u00e9s et 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class='av-structured-data'  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span itemprop='url'>https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/FliesInDisguise_FlowerFly_JohnKlymko_Thumbnail.jpg<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span itemprop='height'>400<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span itemprop='width'>400<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<span class='av-structured-data'  itemprop=\"publisher\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span itemprop='name'>Emily Forrester<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span itemprop='logo' itemscope itemtype='https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span itemprop='url'>https:\/\/wildlifepreservation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WPC_Frn-scaled.jpg<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><span class='av-structured-data'  itemprop=\"author\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><span itemprop='name'>Emily 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