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They're furry, fat, and hibernate all winter.

Not bears, bumblebees.

Specifically, the Queens, which emerged from hibernation in the spring to establish new colonies,

a bit of a trek away.

We knew that Queens end up kilometers from their previous years' natal nest site,

but we didn't know anything really about how they get there.

Clint Perry, a cognitive biologist at Queen Mary University of London.

To observe that phenomenon in action, he and his team glued antennas to the backs of 20 bumblebee queens,

which had been kept under simulated hibernation conditions.

The researchers then tracked the insects with radar as they emerged from small dens in the dirt,

and they found that bumblebees take wing for only 10 to 20 seconds before landing for much longer

layovers.

We were all surprised that the bees spent so much time resting in the ground and that they

seemed to sleep for much of this time even.

I personally found it amusing and cute that they so often position their bodies so that their head was under a leaf or under grass while their butt was still sticking out into the open.

Observations of wild bees confirmed they do this too,

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