Bumble bees at home and at school

Do you know how bumble bees live and what they need? You can discover a lot about bumble bees if you watch them while they visit flowers. This article is a shortened version of a chapter from the IBRA publication Bumble bees for pleasure and profit*, and gives you information on how to do small-scale studies, especially with young people. But be warned, once you have started to observe bumble bees, you cannot stop.