What is the difference between a honey bee, and a bumble bee?

I've recently noted that there are 2 types of bee's I see mostly.





Little black ones (which I assume are worker bee's collecting honey (ie honey bee's) and the big fat bumble bee's.





What is the difference? Does a bumble bee have a hive? Would they use the same hive as a honey bee?





help?What is the difference between a honey bee, and a bumble bee?
The bumble bee is from the 鈥榖ombus鈥?genus and the honey bee is from the 鈥榓pis鈥?genus.


Both are from the Hymenoptera order which includes wasps and ants.


Both live in hives (nest for a bumble bee), both have queens and both have workers. Both also make honey, but the amount of honey that bumble bees make is negligible, so that鈥檚 the main difference. Honey bees make commercially viable amounts of honey and as such are 鈥榝armed鈥?for that reason.


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Well to my point of view bees make more honey than nessesary and bumblebees make honey but only enough to feed their kids! Report Abuse

Bumblebees have typical warning colours: black and yellow or black and red. And it is true: all species are capable of stinging. But they are not very willing to do so. We can even take many species in our hand. As long as we don't squeeze them, they won't sting us at all! Only bumblebees laying on their back should never be touched, for this is their typical defense position, indicating they feel threatened and are ready to sting! Even though the stinger of the bumblebees is build the same way as the Honeybee's, their stinger will not remain in your skin. As a result a bumblebee may sting you more than once. The poison it injects is harmless, except for those allergic to wasp poison. Whether the sting is very painful or not depends on the species involved.





Bumblebees are larger and stronger than honeybees.





hope i helped!
this will help:
all i know is that a bumble bee is fat and round and the honey bee is skinny hope that helps u
Bumblebees are social insects that are characterized by black and yellow body hairs, often in bands, a commonality among the majority of the species of Bombus. However, some species are known to have orange or even red on their bodies, or may be entirely black.





Queen and worker bumblebees can sting, but the sting is not barbed like that of the honey bee, so they can sting more than once





Honey bees are a subset of bees which represent a far smaller fraction of bee diversity than most people suspect





These bees are the only living members of the tribe Apini, all in the genus Apis, and all of which produce and store liquefied sugar (';honey';) to some degree, and construct colonial nests out of wax secreted by the workers in the colony. Other types of related bees produce and store honey, but only members of the genus Apis are considered true honey bees
one makes honey the other just bumbles along
From reading the wiki page about bees posted above it seems the chief differences are:





* bumble bee hives are much smaller in number


* bumble bees can sting more than once


* bumble bee queens found new hives alone - honey bee queens bring a swarm of workers with them.

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