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

Submerged bees breathe and use strategies that don’t require oxygen, lab tests show. In nature, that trick could help the ...

Learn how bumble bee queens can stay alive underwater for over a week by minimizing their metabolism and saving energy.

After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to investigate what makes that super-ability possible ...

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 ...

Bumblebee queens can breathe underwater for up to a week, new research has found. The remarkable discovery came about by chance, as ecologist Sabrina Rondeau noticed a frosty refrigerator dripped ...

BUMBLEBEE queens have been hiding a remarkable superpower all this time. It turns out the buzzing insects can breathe ...

Scientists have been warning for years that bumblebee populations are declining, posing a risk to the vital role that pollinators have in helping maintain food and plants across the world. New ...

If you were a bee, how would you choose a flower to land on? You might go to the most beautiful one, as pollination biologists have long suggested that flowers with striking colors attract pollinators ...

A new study offers clues as to how the insects survive flooding as they emerge from a hibernation-like phase every winter.