The film "Bumblebee" explores the life cycle of bumblebees, focusing on a queen bee that emerges from hibernation and establishes a nest in an abandoned burrow. It details her role in laying eggs, ...

It’s not easy being a queen — a bumblebee queen, that is. To start her colony in the spring, an expectant queen must first survive the winter by hibernating alone in the soil, where she’s vulnerable ...

Worker bees help decide which bumblebee larvae become queens by feeding them juvenile hormone during growth period.

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 ...

The weather warms. The snows recede, and vast swaths of wild flora mat the terrain. The first shoots of the perennials are green. What was once brown and hibernating transforms into a verdant, ...

A bumblebee once common across much of the United States is getting a major boost from federal wildlife officials. The U.S.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Unladen common eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) in Ontario ...

I never realized how fuzzy a bumble bee is until I got to hold one between my fingertips. It feels like a furry black and yellow bear, buzzing with its tiny body, wriggling with its legs. The ...