When gardening, you have probably seen large, fuzzy, yellow and black bumble bees zipping from flower to flower, collecting pollen and nectar to bring back to their nests. Perhaps you have also seen ...
Bumble bees may overpower invasive Argentine ants in one-on-one fights, but those victories come at a hidden cost.
Like a duck that, on the surface, looks like it is calmly floating on the water while paddling furiously underneath, a bumble bee hovering over a flower may look like it’s not doing much to the naked ...
To stay in the air when hovering over a flower, bumble bees continually flap their wings rapidly, a metabolic process that ...