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It’s not easy being a queen — a bumblebee queen, that is. To start her colony in the spring, an expectant queen must first survive the winter by hibernating alone in the soil, where she’s vulnerable ...

Researchers in Canada performed an experiment using 143 eastern bumblebee queens that were weighed and placed in soil-filled tubes. Tap water was then added to the tubes and the bees were either ...

In most bumblebee species, the queens spend their winters buried underground in a tiny cavity the size of a grape. For six to nine months, they enter a deep sleep-like state called diapause, waiting ...

Bees and pollinators are under attack in many ways. But they’re also showing resilience that seems outright incredible. Sabrina Rondeau, a postdoctoral fellow now at the University of Ottawa, made the ...

Spring flooding was supposed to be a death sentence for them. Buried underground, dormant, with no way to surface, bumble bee queens caught in rising water seemed like straightforward casualties of a ...