Since bees pollinate about one-third of the global food supply, including fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes, their decline could have a direct impact on agriculture.

The bees were subjected to simulated heatwaves by being placed in tubes where the temperature was raised to 40 degrees Celsius for nearly three hours.

The researchers found that bumblebees were able to learn from one another how to solve a puzzle — a sign they could have a “capacity for culture.” ...

For bumblebees, the ability to smell flowers is a matter of life or death. Olfactory, along with visual, cues lead them to the best flowers , which they in turn use as a food source ( SN: 4/9/24 ).

Researchers have shown that returning foragers of buff-tailed bumblebees use their own passively laid out scent marks, as well as visual information from landmarks, to find their way back to the nest ...

Bumblebees learn to solve puzzles by watching more experienced peers – study Researchers said their work adds to growing evidence that bees are far smarter creatures than previously thought.

Some bees did this only once, others rolled balls 44 times during a single day, and one did so a whopping 117 times over the course of the study.

Finding nest sites is part of general bumble bee monitoring programs in Lake County but this is the first year dogs have been used to assist. “The expectation is to get more information on how ...

There’s a secret bumblebee trick that can trigger plants to flower a month earlier than they would otherwise. Researchers in Switzerland discovered that when bumblebees … ...

Bees are well-versed in the unspoken language of flowers. These buzzing pollinators are in tune with many features of flowering plants—the shape of the bulbs, the diversity of colors, and their ...

After engaging 45 bumblebees in several experiments, it became clear the bees went out of their way to roll wooden balls repeatedly, despite no apparent incentive to do so.