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

After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to ...

Wild bumblebees serve as key hosts for acute bee paralysis virus. While the virus appears to cause little harm to bumblebees, ...

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 ...

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

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

This precious pooch prefers a bee-free environment.