We Finally Know How Bumblebee Queens Can Survive Underwater For Days

Bumblebee Queens Can Survive and Breathe Underwater For Over a Week By Cutting Energy Demands

Learn how bumble bee queens can stay alive underwater for over a week by minimizing their metabolism and saving energy.

Just Discovered! Bumblebee Queens Reveal Remarkable Niflaos HaBorei Surviving Underwater for a Week

NEW YORK (VINnews/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) – In a finding that inspires wonder at the niflaos HaBorei embedded in all of creation, researchers publishing in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B have discovered that queen bumblebees can survive fully submerged underwater for an entire week — and can even breathe while completely inundated. Mah […]

We Finally Know How Bumblebee Queens Can Survive Underwater For Days

The discovery that bumblebee queens could shake it off and emerge unscathed after more than a week submerged in water stunned scientists back in 2024. Now, a new paper reveals how they do it. Included in the bumblebee survival toolkit is the remarkable ability to extract oxygen from the water around them – literally allowing them to breathe underwater temporarily. It's a skill set that can help the heart of a colony weather a crisis such as a fl…

Submerged bumblebee queens breathe underwater

Submerged bees breathe and use strategies that don’t require oxygen, lab tests show. In nature, that trick could help the bees survive floods.

How bumble bees survive days underwater without drowning

Insects can stay alive for up to a week in flooded nests, thanks to several tricks

Queen bumblebees have the ability to breath underwater, study finds

The insects appear to have a unique solution to surviving the winter in flooded, underground conditions. A question that is often asked is how certain...