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 ...

There are some scientific discoveries that feel immediately sensible. Water is wet, fire is hot, politicians lie. And then there are discoveries that sound as though a group of slightly overworked ...

In an elaborate experiment, scientists discovered that the insects chose to hibernate in soil full of pesticides and other poisons. By Darren Incorvaia North-facing, sloping ground with loose, sandy ...

If you see a bumblebee buzzing around our region’s early-blooming flowers, it’s a queen. Roused by warming temperatures, she ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A queen bumble bee builds up nutrition reserves in preparation for overwintering. (Lucas Borg-Darveau) In most bumblebee species, ...

Just like the first swallow, the buzzing of bumblebees is a sound that summer's on its way.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bumblebee on the edge of a swimming pool Bees can survive underwater for up to a week, scientists have found, after accidentally ...

All hail the queen, she has arrived! A rare sighting has been made in Chanhassen. I have been photographing bumble bees this summer and came across a variety of them such as the red belted, ...

The most anticipated sign of spring for this gardener is not the arrival of the first seed catalogs, not the first green tips of a daffodil and not even the first sighting of a red-winged blackbird.