#for me bumblebees are always as separate from bees as wasps and hornets are

[langernameohnebedeutung]

A linguistical observation I'm making based on my (bumble)bee-post: it seems that for English speakers bees and bumblebees are much closer/bumblebees much more a subcategory of bees than for me, who grew up thinking of them as Bienen and Hummeln.

#for me bumblebees are always as separate from bees as wasps and hornets are #but people in the tags use the words very interchangeably #and I think it might be another blue/turquoise or foot/leg situation #languages