Here is a food web that allows you to see the producers, primary consumers, secondary consumer, and tertiary consumers.
Here is a food pyramid that's different from a food web. Here you can see how energy moves up the pyramid. But in hindsight they show the same things. As you can see, bumble bees are pretty low in the food chain.
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This how bumble bees contribute in the carbon cycle
Bumble bees fit into the ecosystem in a really important way. Bumble bees pollinate flowers and that's very important. Flowers are a main food source for many animals. They feed primary consumers, primary consumer feed secondary consumers and they feed the tertiary consumers. If we didn't have producers (flowers and other plants) then the whole food chain would fall apart. Also as I said in the last part flowers and bumble bees have a mutualism relationship. Not only do bumble bees help flowers but flowers help bumble bees. Bumble bees collect nectar from flowers to make honey. This way they both benefit from each other. That's how bumble bees fit into the ecosystem. What they do for flowers effects the whole environment. Energy moves in certain ways through the food pyramid. For each level only ten percent moves up. Therefore the higher you get the more you need to eat to get enough energy. That's how energy moves. For a better example look to the example on the left. Part 1 sources "Bee Enzyme." BuzzAboutBees.net. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2014 "Bumble Bee." (Bombus). N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2014. "BUMBLE BEE." BUMBLE BEE. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2014. "Bumblebee." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 09 Mar. 2014. Web. 16 Sept. 2014. "Hives for Lives." Hives for Lives. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2014. Jhenobe. "Substrate Specificity of Invertase by Jhenobe." StudyMode. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2014. Part 2 sources "Biology Help." Biology Online Help. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Oct. 2014. "Bumblebee." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 09 Mar. 2014. Web. 16 Sept. 2014. "Bumble Bee." (Bombus). N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2014. "The 10 Key Principles of Change Management." - The Bumble Bee. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Oct. 2014. Part 3 sources "Bumblebee." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 09 Mar. 2014. Web. 16 Sept. 2014. Mrs., Hall. "Dominant and Recessive Practice Problems." Science Note Book, Page 18, n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2014. Mrs., Hall. "Incomlete Inheritance." Science Notebook, Page 21, n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2014. Mrs., Hall. "Sex-linked Inheritance Problems." Science Notebook, Page 26, n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2014. Part 4 sources "Bumble Bee." (Bombus). N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2014. "Bombus Ternarius." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 16 Dec. 2014. "Bumblebee." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 09 Mar. 2014. Web. 16 Sept. 2014. "Difference between Honey Bees and Wasps: Bees and Wasps." Orkin. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Dec. 2014 Part 5 sources "Bombus Ternarius." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 16 Dec. 2014. "Food Chains." Food Chains. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Dec. 2014. <http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/F/FoodChains.html>. "Food Web." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 23 Dec. 2014. Web. 01 Jan. 2015. "Index of /jkimball.ma.ultranet." Index of /jkimball.ma.ultranet. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Dec. 2014. "The Carbon Cycle." The Carbon Cycle. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Dec. 2014. <https://eo.ucar.edu/kids/green/cycles6.htm>. |