The benefits of having a long tongue means that species like B. hortorum can feed with relative ease in comparison to short tongued species which would find this type of feeding difficult.

Environment

Is single-use plastic really the root of all evil?

In 2017, the BBC programme Blue Planet ll opened a lot of eyes to the effects of plastic in marine [...]
ID Guide

Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) — ID Guide

Ireland has 20 native species of bumblebee, but if you’re only starting to learn about these wonderful creatures there isn’t [...]
Conservation

Saving the Sea Turtles: Wildlife Conservation in the Caribbean

I always wanted to work with wildlife. Always. Give me a rock pool to poke around in or a forest [...]
Research

The Importance of Field Work to a Biology Degree

Costa Rica is one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet. Making up only 0.03% of the Earth’s [...]
Research

Busting Myths About Working With Bees

As someone who’s worked with bumblebees in a science laboratory for 5 years, I’ve been asked just about every [...]