Queen bumble bees can survive fully submerged for a week, revealing how these pollinators endure spring floods and still start new colonies.

A newly mated bumblebee queen typically spends the winter alone underground. After mating in late summer or fall, she burrows ...

A study of bumble bees has uncovered a potential reason for the insects' decline. By studying bumble bee exposure to particulate air pollutants, scientists at the University of Leicester have ...

The common eastern bumblebee, Bombus impatiens. (a6475/iNaturalist, CC BY-SA 4.0) The discovery that bumblebee queens could shake it off and emerge unscathed after more than a week submerged in water ...

A new study has identified the bee's knees of bumble bee dietary options in Ohio and the Upper Midwest. By viewing almost 23,000 bumble bee-flower interactions over two years, researchers found that ...