Spring signals female bees to lay the next generation of pollinators
- Written by Lila Westreich, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Environment and Forest Sciences, University of Washington
Northern amber bumble bee queen (_Bombus borealis_) on a dandelion flower.Sarah A. Johnson, CC BY-NDThe first days of spring – brighter and warmer – are a biological trigger for female bees to wake up from hibernation and begin to build future colonies.
These enormous bees, sometimes two to three times larger than a worker bee, are...
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