"Bee nests are really hard to find." Researchers use out-of-the-box method to locate critically endangered bumblebees: 'The smell is always there' first appeared on The Cool Down.

One bumblebee may cope better with the heat than another, but if the nest is too hot to raise healthy larvae the whole colony suffers, regardless of individual bumblebees’ adaptation.

Adrian Carper, who is in both my department and the CU Museum of Natural History, told me about a bee that could chew nest holes into stone. It was fascinating.

Another bumble’s future is tethered to the western’s: a social parasite called Suckley’s cuckoo bumblebee that commandeers western nests, workers and food stores to raise its own young.

A major contributor to bumblebee decline could be rising temperatures in the nests that house social colonies, caused by climate change.

There's a newly-determined "major factor" in declining bumblebee populations – and it's attacking their nests.

Bumblebee Nests May Be Overheating With Rising Global Temperatures, Study Finds Across various species and regions, bumblebee nests thrive between 82 and 89.6 degrees Fahrenheit—and climate ...

Kathryn McCabe, wildlife ecologist with the Lake County Forest Preserve District, discusses how and why dogs were being used to help locate bumblebee nests at Grant Woods Forest Preserve in Ingleside.