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The article discusses a study by Olli Loukola and colleagues in which bumblebees learned to push a ball into a hole in order to receive a snack from observing a researcher doing this using a plastic bee on a stick, and the bees' ability to improve on what they learned by choosing the ball closest to the hole.

The article focuses on behavior research in bumblebees, commenting that bumblebees that were rewarded with sugar water after associating a location in the lab with a specific color that were rewarded before the test would investigate new areas more quickly than control bees, and talks about the role of dopamine receptors in reward systems.

The article discusses the Bee Vectoring Technologies (BVT) company's development of an organic pesticide powder for bumblebees to spread to flowers during their pollination, offering the chief executive officer (CEO) of BVT Michael Collinson's perspective on the pesticide powder.

The article discusses a report published in "Science" by researcher Daniel Robert and team on the use of electrical signals for communication by Bombus terrestris bumblebees. They found that bumblebees were able to detect electric fields produced by negatively-charged flowers to attract pollinators. The flower field is altered after a visit by a bumblebee, signalling to other bees that the flower's nectar is depleted.

Reports on the study of the behavior of bumblebee colonies conducted by zoologists Jacqueline Shykoff and Christine Muller. Worker bees' control of the colony's means of production; Main ways in which a bumblebee could assess whether her workforce is large enough to begin breeding; Ability of worker bees to distinguish between different kinds of eggs.

Reports on the findings of entomologists Regula Schmid-Hempel and Christine Muller on the effect of parasitic fly on bumble bee behavior. Claim of the entomologists that bees with parasites tend to spent less time in the nest and more time foraging for food; Possible reasons why the parasitized bees does not come back to the nest; Implications of the study on foraging studies of insects.