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 ...

While most gardeners celebrate the honeybee and mason bee, there is a larger, fuzzier, and arguably more valiant figure ...

If you see a bumblebee buzzing around our region’s early-blooming flowers, it’s a queen. Roused by warming temperatures, she ...

When Sabrina Rondeau flooded the tiny containers holding hibernating bumblebee queens in her University of Guelph laboratory, ...

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 ...

A newly mated bumblebee queen typically spends the winter alone underground. After mating in late summer or fall, she burrows into the soil and slips into diapause, an insect state of suspended ...

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.

Environmental Communications Specialist Brett Peto contributed this story. A bumble bee queen has a lot resting on her wings. She lives for four seasons. During that time, she will survive winter, ...

All hail the queen, she has arrived! A rare sighting has been made in Chanhassen. I have been photographing bumble bees this summer and came across a variety of them such as the red belted, ...