Spring flooding was supposed to be a death sentence for them. Buried underground, dormant, with no way to surface, bumble bee queens caught in rising water seemed like straightforward casualties of a ...

After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to ...

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 ...

The bumblebees avoid drowning by combining underwater gas exchange with anaerobic metabolism, according to a new study.

Learn how bumble bee queens can stay alive underwater for over a week by minimizing their metabolism and saving energy.

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Throughout winter, bumble bee queens lie buried underground in diapause, in a hibernation-like state, in a form of overwintering. But as snow melts and heavy rains soak the ground each spring those ...