After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Submerged bees breathe and use strategies that don’t require oxygen, lab tests show. In nature, that trick could help the ...
The American bumblebee could soon be declared an endangered species, according to federal officials. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) said in a proposed rule that petitions to list the ...
A new study in the journal PLOS Biology finds that these humble insects can actually learn to solve puzzles from one another, suggesting that even some invertebrates like these social insects have a ...
Shrill Carder Bumblebee. Bombus sylvarum, the shrill carder bee or knapweed carder bee, collecting nectar from a flower. wls It's being called the unnoticed apocalypse: The number of insects is ...
A new study offers clues as to how the insects survive flooding as they emerge from a hibernation-like phase every winter.
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