Bumble bees solve complex tool-use puzzles without training, rolling balls to reach suspended flowers and rewriting assumptions about insect intelligence.

A species of bumblebee with a brain smaller than a sesame seed has solved a physical problem that researchers never ...

Bumble bees astonished researchers by inventing a new way to reach a hidden reward, despite never being taught the trick. The ...

A new study has identified the bee's knees of bumble bee dietary options in Ohio and the Upper Midwest. By viewing almost 23,000 bumble bee-flower interactions over two years, researchers found that ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study has identified the bee’s knees of bumble bee dietary options in Ohio and the Upper Midwest. By viewing almost 23,000 bumble bee-flower interactions over two years, ...

MADISON, WI, June 29, 2023—Honey bees are more faithful to their flower patches than bumble bees when it comes to returning to collect more pollen and nectar, according to a study by U.S. Department ...

MILWAUKEE - If you go for a walk from mid-April through May in an old Wisconsin forest, odds are you may have noticed diverse beds of flowers less than a foot high. These are spring ephemerals – short ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Picture this: a bee realizes an out-of-reach flower might become reachable if she repositions a nearby ball underneath it. Then ...