The search for the elusive arctic bumblebee named Bombus polaris began at the Thai Orchid Drive-Thru in Fairbanks, Alaska. The drive-thru — a neon painted shed in a parking lot — offered the team of ...

Traveling the Dalton Highway in search of Bombus polaris, the Arctic bumblebee. Traveling the Dalton Highway in search of Bombus polaris, the Arctic bumblebee. DNA analysis would later show that ...

When excavating 10 frigid bumblebee nests, Scofield and Valdes found the cavities were accordingly quaint — about the size of a baseball. They were likely excavated by shrews, Scofield says. In ...

University of California, Riverside researchers are recently back from a trip to Alaska where they collected samples of a hardy pollinator called Bombus polaris, the Arctic bumblebee. Hollis ...

making life very difficult for an Arctic bumblebee.” These shifts are reshaping ecosystems in ways scientists don’t yet fully understand, she said, adding that this is why it is vital to track ...

Lapland bumblebee queens found in Arctic Sweden are considerably bigger and furrier than their southerly relatives and can tolerate freezing temperatures down to -20°C. They hibernate through win ...

For example, the scientists have found the Lapland bumblebee nest right in a hummock. Bumblebees are one of the few insects pollinating flowering plants in the Arctic. Therefore, conditions of ...

Frozen Planet films showing baby turtles and an Arctic bumblebee which can freeze solid during winter then thaw out in spring is being used by scientists researching human medical advances.

On board the Arctic Sunrise, Hocevar was asked why years of targeting Bumble Bee (now owned by Fong Chun Formosa of Taiwan) haven’t borne fruit. Banner on Greenpeace ship targets San Diego-based ...

Bernd Heinrich, "Bumblebee Economics" One hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle, by the side of a dusty road, two women in anti-mosquito head nets peer at a queen bumblebee buzzing furiously in ...