Scientists are examining the extraordinary colony-building capacities of solo queen bumblebees to better understand cognition ...

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.

In an elaborate experiment, scientists discovered that the insects chose to hibernate in soil full of pesticides and other poisons. By Darren Incorvaia North-facing, sloping ground with loose, sandy ...

Consider the bumblebee queen hovering around dandelions in your yard. Having mated late last summer, she’s a soon-to-be single mom who needs to fatten up before she lays her first brood of eggs, ...

The most anticipated sign of spring for this gardener is not the arrival of the first seed catalogs, not the first green tips of a daffodil and not even the first sighting of a red-winged blackbird.

Every bumble bee colony has a queen, but a new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests the process of determining which baby bee reigns supreme may be less monarchal than the royal title ...