but some social media users are claiming one type of bee – the bumblebee – has a unique ability: levitation. “When they beat their wings very fast, they build up energy inside a ...

For the bumble bee contest. Whoever photographs or video ... says the point of the contest "is to get the earliest possible flight date for statistical purposes." It's all part of his scientific ...

In scientific tests, several of the bees flew successfully in a flight chamber which recreated ... with the discovery of a bumblebee nest at 4,400m in the Hengduan Mountains of Sichuan Province ...

The buzz of a bumble bee feeding at a willow catkin is a sure sign that spring has arrived to Interior Alaska. As more and more flowers unfurl to offer their nectar and pollen rewards, a dizzying ...

Such flowers require buzz pollination, when bumblebees use their flight muscles to vibrate their ... more than a quarter of North America’s nearly 50 bumblebee species face some risk of extinction.

The Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee has a unique life cycle. Like cuckoo birds, they lay their eggs in the nests of other species ...

Judges voted unanimously for the photo of a bumblebee landing on a flower at Candie Gardens in St Peter Port A photo of a bumblebee in flight taken by a Guernsey schoolboy on his smartphone has ...