Bumblebee Queens Prefer Layovers to Nonstop Flights

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🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Scientists tracked bumblebee queens with radar when they emerged from hibernation and found the bees take only brief flights en route to a new nest. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.0	They're furry, fat, and hibernate all winter.
0:40.0	Not bears, bumblebees.
0:42.0	Specifically, the Queens, which emerge from hibernation in the spring to establish new colonies, a bit of a trek away.
0:48.0	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.
0:56.0	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,
1:05.8	which had been kept under simulated hibernation conditions.
1:09.0	The researchers then tracked the insects with radar,
1:11.5	as they emerged from small dens in the dirt and they found
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