Three Tips for Helping Wild Bumble Bee Queens Overwinter for Spring Crop Pollination

Authors

Laura O. Johnson, UVM ExtensionFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

Abstract

This guide summarizes three ways wild bumble bee queens can be supported in the landscape for overwintering success and helping to ensure spring pollination of crops. Tips included are leaving blooms for pollen and nectar until the first hard frost, conserving rodent burrows as nesting sites, and how human built structures can also serve as overwintering habitat. Bumble bee queens will take advantage of a number of natural and human introduced resources if it supplies the resources and protection needed for survival.

Comments

This material is based upon work supported by USDA/NIFA under Award Number 2021-70027-34693

Recommended Citation

Johnson, Laura O., "Three Tips for Helping Wild Bumble Bee Queens Overwinter for Spring Crop Pollination" (2022). UVM Extension Faculty and Staff Publications. 75.
https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/extfac/75