Bumblebees can breathe underwater by surrounding themselves with an air pocket that acts like a diving bell, scientists ...
He didn't have enough time to put on a face shield if he wanted to save the bees.
The bedraggled bumblebee queen seemed lifeless. Yet she was somehow alive — still breathing after being underwater for roughly a week in the lab. Did she manage to hold her breath for all that time, ...
He didn't have enough time to put on a face shield if he wanted to save the bees.
The Bartlett Bee Whisperer lived up to his name, remaining cool, calm, and collected when he was swarmed with some 30,000 bees without any protective gear.
The common eastern bumblebee, Bombus impatiens. (a6475/iNaturalist, CC BY-SA 4.0) The discovery that bumblebee queens could shake it off and emerge unscathed after more than a week submerged in water ...