While testing how well commercial bumblebees pollinate early spring crops, researchers made a surprising discovery: dead wild bumblebee queens in the hives, an average of 10 per nest box. While ...
Bumble bee survival depends on nest location and extreme heat. Underground nests protect colonies, while aboveground nests ...
New research finds that higher temperatures can actually benefit some bumble bee species - particularly those that make ...
Cornell researchers recently observed a novel ‘outhouse’ structure in Arctic bumble bee nests that could mitigate the spread of fecal-borne disease within bee colonies. The outhouse is a small and ...
New research finds that higher temperatures can actually benefit some bumble bee species – particularly those that make ...