Ann Turkenburg Scott has a colony of bumblebees nesting under a shelf in her Kamloops shed for the summer in what appears to ...

"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.

Bumblebee nests are overheating due to climate change, threatening future populations. Frontiers. Journal Frontiers in Bee Science Funder Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of ...

It may be possible for some bumblebee colonies to adapt their nest site choice and form or behavior to cool their nests. Ground-penetrating radar could help study ground-nesting species, while ...

A few years ago, Adrian Carper, who is in my department and also the Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado Boulder, told me about a species of bee that could chew nest holes into ...

More information: Blanca R. Peto et al, Social control of egg-laying in independently nest-founding bumble bee queens, BMC Ecology and Evolution (2025). DOI: 10.1186/s12862-025-02364-0 Journal ...

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.

The optimal temperature range for bumblebee nests is between 82.4 and 89.6 degrees Fahrenheit. And when the heat rises just slightly higher to 95 degrees Fahrenheit, ...

This is the first nest found in Iowa since the rusty patched bumblebee was listed as a federally endangered species in 2017 Olivia Cohen Oct. 23, 2024 5:30 am, Updated: Oct. 23, 2024 7:56 am ...