Season 3
The Bumblebee Who Rolled a Ball 117 Times for Fun
One bumblebee. One wooden ball. One hundred and seventeen times - with no reward, no training, and no reason anyone could explain. In Part 2 of our bumblebee play series, we follow PhD student Samadi ...
Can Bumblebees Play Soccer?
What happens when a scientist hands a bumblebee a wooden ball and a target — and offers a drop of sugar as the prize? She scores a goal. In 2017, researchers at Queen Mary University of London discove...
Bumblebee Queens Can Breathe Underwater — And Scientists Just Figured Out How
Bumblebee queens spend up to nine months hibernating underground — and sometimes, that ground floods. A 2021 lab accident accidentally revealed they could survive a week fully submerged. A new study o...
The First Ceramicists - When Native Bees Taught Us About Clay
🎉 Featured in Ceramics Now Magazine! The article companion to this episode was just published at ceramicsnow.org The First Ceramicists: When Bees Taught Us About Clay is live now in Ceramics Now Maga...