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 investigate what makes that super-ability possible ...

Bumblebee queens can breathe underwater for up to a week, new research has found. The remarkable discovery came about by chance, as ecologist Sabrina Rondeau noticed a frosty refrigerator dripped ...

The common eastern bumblebee, Bombus impatiens. (a6475/iNaturalist, CC BY-SA 4.0) The discovery that bumblebee queens could shake it off and emerge unscathed after more than a week submerged in water ...

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

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

The tree bumblebee is one of the first bumblebee species to appear in spring. Tree bumblebees stir from their hibernation remarkably early, in February and March. Here, we’re talking about queen ...

A new study offers clues as to how the insects survive flooding as they emerge from a hibernation-like phase every winter.