Submerged bees breathe and use strategies that don’t require oxygen, lab tests show. In nature, that trick could help the ...

Queen bumble bees can survive fully submerged for a week, revealing how these pollinators endure spring floods and still start new colonies.

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

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

Bumblebees can breathe underwater by surrounding themselves with an air pocket that acts like a diving bell, scientists ...

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 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 ...

A newly mated bumblebee queen typically spends the winter alone underground. After mating in late summer or fall, she burrows ...