Hear ye, hear ye! The queens have emerged! We’re talking about bumble bees (genus Bombus). For several weeks each spring, any bumble bee you see is a queen— and very hard at work. She must construct her kingdom. Her mother (the previous queen), and most of her siblings will have perished. Unlike honey bees
Springtime is Queen Bee Time - Childhood By Nature
Bell Bowl Prairie - Natural Land Institute
Insects Elementary STEM Club
Bumble Bee Book: The Wait Is Over - Bug Squad - ANR Blogs
Meadow Musings thegardenimpressionists
The Royal Relationship between Queen Bees and Spring Ephemerals
Queen Bee 2024 – Nature's Image Farm
It takes more than honeybees: Native bumblebees disappearing in Vermont
What are bees doing right now? Spring edition
Insects Elementary STEM Club
Wild bumblebee queens lured and killed in commercial hives
The Mysterious Death of the Bumblebee Queens
Queen bumblebees take long breaks in the grass after hibernating
Larva – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution