The film "Bumblebee" explores the life cycle of bumblebees, focusing on a queen bee that emerges from hibernation and establishes a nest in an abandoned burrow. It details her role in laying eggs, ...

A bumblebee once common across much of the United States is getting a major boost from federal wildlife officials. The U.S.

It’s not easy being a queen — a bumblebee queen, that is. To start her colony in the spring, an expectant queen must first survive the winter by hibernating alone in the soil, where she’s vulnerable ...

A team of researchers has uncovered alarming trends in the first range-wide genetic study of an endangered bee species. The study, led by Colorado State University and published in the Journal of ...

Worker bees help decide which bumblebee larvae become queens by feeding them juvenile hormone during growth period.

The weather warms. The snows recede, and vast swaths of wild flora mat the terrain. The first shoots of the perennials are green. What was once brown and hibernating transforms into a verdant, ...

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I never realized how fuzzy a bumble bee is until I got to hold one between my fingertips. It feels like a furry black and yellow bear, buzzing with its tiny body, wriggling with its legs. The ...

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