She was studying hibernating queen bumblebees when she opened a refrigerator and found several of the bees submerged in water. The cause: condensation had crept into the soil-filled tubes where ...

Rhododendrites via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Bumblebees may be more resilient than previously thought: Hibernating queen bees can survive for up to a week underwater, researchers report ...

Nigel Raine and Sabrina Rondeau have found that bumblebee queens are more likely to hibernate in soil contaminated with pesticides than in clean soil – for reasons they still don’t quite understand.

Scientists were working on a study on bumblebee diapause. Diapause is similar to hibernation. Diapausing bees get all quiet and chill, and don’t do any of their usual stuff like flying around ...

Native bees come in a variety of sizes - some are big, some are small, and some are… even smaller! Enjoy these two vignettes ...

While some bees hibernate through the winter, others try to manage business as usual. Typically, about 50 percent of this population die during the winter, but researchers say the numbers have ...

"Due to their larger size and fuzzy bodies, bumblebee queens are some of the first bees to emerge from their hibernation cavities," Milwaukee's Schlitz Audubon Nature Center said. "In early spring ...