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 ...

A beehive operates more like a democracy than a monarchy. In fact, US bee researcher Thomas D. Seeley describes a colony’s social structure as a ‘bee democracy’, where many decisions are made ...

A baby bumble bee can end up on one of two very different paths. It can grow into a small worker that never reproduces, or become a large future queen built to survive winter and start a colony of her ...

It sounds like the plot of a medieval historical drama: A once-powerful monarch, weakened by illness, is overthrown by her previously loyal subjects. But in honey bee colonies, such high-stakes coups ...

Environmental Communications Specialist Brett Peto contributed this story. A bumble bee queen has a lot resting on her wings. She lives for four seasons. During that time, she will survive winter, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bumble bee queens can survive over a week underwater using a combination of metabolic depression and anaerobic survival strategies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Penn State study finds worker bees help turn larvae into future queens by passing juvenile hormone in food. (CREDIT: Dmitry ...