Our new paper in Science Advances, “Kinematic flexibility allows bumblebees to increase energetic efficiency when carrying heavy loads” just came out: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/6/eaay3115.
See an article about this work on the U.C. Davis news page: https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/bumblebees-carry-heavy-loads-economy-mode. Congratulations to co-lead author Susie Gagliardi, and co-authors Callin Switzer and Michael Dillon!
