During spring, when queen bumblebees first emerge from hibernation to start their nests, they work incredibly hard foraging ...

But, not so for bumblebees, where the queen is larger but otherwise physically indistinguishable from her workers. In a study ...

The density of fine hairs on bumblebees’ tongues determines how much nectar they can collect — and workers put queen bees to shame.

Bumble bee enthusiast Lesley Hamamoto of Sacramento, and a UC Davis alumna who remembers well the entomology class she took ...