Queen bumble bees can survive fully submerged for a week, revealing how these pollinators endure spring floods and still start new colonies.
After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to ...
Submerged bees breathe and use strategies that don’t require oxygen, lab tests show. In nature, that trick could help the ...
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Hibernating bumblebee queens can actually breathe underwater like tiny scuba divers
A newly mated bumblebee queen typically spends the winter alone underground. After mating in late summer or fall, she burrows ...
Environmental Communications Specialist Brett Peto contributed this story. A bumble bee queen has a lot resting on her wings. She lives for four seasons. During that time, she will survive winter, ...
HEAR YE, hear ye! The queens have emerged! We’re talking about bumble bees (genus Bombus). For several weeks each spring, any bumble bee you see is a queen — and she’s very hard at work. She must ...
Connal McLean is affiliated with The Moths and Butterflies of New Zealand Trust and The Entomological Society of New Zealand. Jennifer Jandt does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive ...
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