After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to ...

Spring flooding was supposed to be a death sentence for them. Buried underground, dormant, with no way to surface, bumble bee queens caught in rising water seemed like straightforward casualties of a ...

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

ON HOW THIS COULD IMPACT MORE THAN BEES. MIKE: IT’S NOT EVERYDAY THAT YOU HEAR ABOUT INSECTS ON THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT, BUT THAT’S WHAT THE GAME COMMISSION IS GOING TO CONSIDER ONE WEEK FROM TODAY ...

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 ...

The American bumblebee could soon be declared an endangered species, according to federal officials. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) said in a proposed rule that petitions to list the ...

The massive use of insecticides across the world by farmers greatly affected bee population in the past decades. Many of the world's crops are pollinated by insects but bees are often regarded to have ...