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 ...
An alarming discovery from University of Guelph researchers raises concerns for bumblebee health, survival and reproduction. U of G environmental sciences researchers Drs. Nigel Raine and Sabrina ...
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 ...
When Sabrina Rondeau flooded the tiny containers holding hibernating bumblebee queens in her University of Guelph laboratory, she expected casualties. Instead, nearly nine out of ten queens survived a ...
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 lab mistake revealed that hibernating bumblebees can survive fully submerged underwater for at least seven days. This ability suggests the embattled insects are more resilient than previously ...
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