Bumble bee Costume

If you feel like buzzing around this Halloween then you’ve come to the right place.  We have a amazing selection from which you can choose a great bumble bee costume. They range from the Transformers Bumblebee Movie costumes, to the cutest infant and toddler costumes.

Click on any link and you’ll find even more costumes for adults, teens, children and toddlers.  Get buzz, buzz, buzzing…

Transformers Bumblebee Movie Deluxe Child	Buggin’ Out Adult Costume	Honey Bee Tween Costume
Queen Bee Infant	Lil’ Stinger Elite Collection Infant/Toddler Costume	Honey Bee Child

When we think about bumblebees, two things may come to mind.  The first being those black and yellow insects that fly around our heads buzzing away and if we are not careful can sting us.  Or it could be one of the Transformers, who turn from a small, yellow car into a massive and powerful robot.

Here’s what you’ve always wanted to know about bumblebees:

•    Bumblebees are different from the honeybee.  The bumblebee is gentle and slow, round and furry.
•    Bumblebees don’t produce much honey, only enough to feed their young, unlike the honeybees.
•    There are three kinds of bumblebee: the large Queen bee, the smaller female worker bee and the even smaller drone bee.
•    Only the Queen and the worker bees have a sting. The drones have no sting at all.
•    Bumblebees don’t lose their sting and die after they use it as a honey bee will do.
•    Bumblebees are a lot less aggressive than honey bees and won’t attack humans unless their life is under threat.

The life cycle of a bumblebee is very interesting. Each Autumn as the first frost begins, the Queen bee seeks out a place to safely hibernate.  When Spring arrives bringing with it the warmer weather, the Queen awakes and starts searching for nectar and pollen to turn into honey ready for her newly hatching brood. She will find a suitable place in which to build her nest, common sites being an old mouse hole, a cool dark place underneath a wooden floor or even in a garden shed.  As bees don’t usually live in large colonies, the nest is only about as big as half a grapefruit.

Once the Queen has built her nest she starts laying her eggs and delegates the task of collecting pollen and nectar to the worker bees. This continues through late Spring and Summer until the nest has reached the right size. Once the drones are hatched they leave the nest, but continue to live and work in the mother colony from the remainder of the Summer and Autumn. The purpose of the drones is to mate with the young queens to ensure the survival of the species. Once the temperature starts dropping, the old Queen, her workers and the drones will die and only the newly mated queens will survive to begin the cycle again the following Spring.

If you love bumblebees, then you should listen to Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakov, a wonderful piece of music written for his opera, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899-1900. This piece of music closes the third act during which the magic Swan changes the Tsar’s son into an insect so that he can fly away to visit his father.  It really does sound that the buzzing of a bee.

You should also take a look at the very cheerful Bumblebees song by Aqua, who in their music video are dressed up in a great bumble bee costume.

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