The cooling system that lets bees beat the heat when hovering

To stay in the air when hovering over a flower, bumble bees continually flap their wings rapidly, a metabolic process that ...
OPB

Can insects have culture? Puzzle-solving bumblebees show it’s possible

A new study in the journal PLOS Biology finds that these humble insects can actually learn to solve puzzles from one another, suggesting that even some invertebrates like these social insects have a ...
Forbes

How Hot Is A Fully-Laden Bumblebee And Why Should We Care?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Unladen common eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) in Ontario ...
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Keeping the Northwest’s buzz alive: saving the western bumblebee

Citizen-scientists gathered in a wildflower meadow in the Washington Cascades in July to help the western bumblebee keep buzzing through the air. Nearly a mile high in the Wenatchee Mountains, the ...