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A tiny sweat bee takes a drink.
Lasioglossum tegulare. This tiny bee was only about 4-5mm in length. She sat still to take a drink while I took her picture. I Sony A7rIV and sigma 105mm macro.
#sony #sonyalpha #macrophotography #macro #closeup #bee #nativebee #nativepollinator #pollinator

Agapostemon virescens, a bicolored striped sweat bee, on a coneflower.
#macrophotography #bee #nativebee #nativepollinator #sweatbee #wild #nature #pollinator

Augochloropsis metallica on a borage flower.
#macrophotography #beekeeping #bee #pollinator #nativebee #nativepollinator

May 20 is World Bee Day!

Here’s one of my prints, one of a series of related prints about leaf cutter bees, each unique. These prints are both about, and a sort of collaboration with leaf cutter bees! These small, but multifarious native bees are important pollinators, who make nests for their babies using small telltale half-moon pieces they cut from leaves and petals.

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#linocut #printmaking #leafCutterBees #NativeBee #ecology #sciart #conservation #washi #MastoArt

Little sweat #bee is my 1st native bee sighting of the season. I have much better nectar & pollen resources than dandelions in the yard, though! #NativeBee #pollinators #OrganicGardening #insects #entomology

#BlueBandedBee #NativeBee

Gray December day and snow on the ground… I’m thinking of summer … #NativeGardening #nativebee #savethebees #savethemonarch #Conservation #pollinatorgarden #MonarchButterfly

Gray December day and snow on the ground… I’m thinking of summer … #NativeGardening #nativebee #savethebees #savethemonarch #Conservation #pollinatorgarden #MonarchButterfly

#Bees are beautiful don’t you think?

They’re the most productive insect on the planet I reckon. Always at work, pollinating our plants; they carry #pollen between plants of different sexes to fertilise them, which help #plants reproduce.

There are about 1650 #nativebee species in #Australia, they generally do not produce honey – tho there are 20,000 known species worldwide. Extraordinary!

#Honeybees were introduced to Australia from Europe around 200 years ago, they sleep between 5 & 8 hours a day.

Queen honeybees live on average 1–2 years whereas workers live on average 15–38 days in the summer and 150–200 days in the winter.

At the peak of the honey-gathering season, a strong, healthy hive will have a population of approximately 50,000 bees.

A honeybee only produces around a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey… in its whole life.

I had to double check that. But that is indeed correct.

These pics taken at Melbourne’s #BottanicalGarden this weekend 🐝

#bee #bees #urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #victoria #simplepleasures #godmustbeabotanist

Sleeping in the #pollinatorgarden #nativebee #savethebees #savethepollinators #rewilding #conservation

Buzz pollination (#sonication) in action! A beautiful native bee curled in her vibrating position against the tubular anthers of a Hibbertia flower.
Some plants, like this Hibbertia sp., have tubular anthers which can only be opened by a specific frequency of buzzing produced by the flight muscles of some native bees. Honey bees cannot perform #buzzpollination.

Isn't she beautiful!

#nativebee #wildoz #buzz #pollination #pollinators #buzzing #hibbertia #flower

7/7 - So, do we find more, and maybe more diverse #NativeBee species, in regions of the Virginia landscape that have been indicated by #HoneyBees to be “good”? Join #PhD student Rob Ostrom (@robert_ostrom@Twitter.com) on Tuesday 1:30 to 1:45 to learn more!

Status: adormit. I si ens llevem un altre dia?

Amegilla quadrifasciata, abella solitària vista vora la mar de Tarragona aquest estiu passat. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/129039596

#iNaturalist #entomologia #entomology #insects #natura #fotografia #nativebee #bees

Sometimes all it takes is to pay attention and let the beauty and extraordinary resilience of little critters wash into you.

Lasioglossum (possibly) #nativebee unwittingly pollinating brambles. Watch the bee now, imagine the blackberries.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/50874601

#iNaturalist #insects #photography

@PLOSBiology And notice the call out to the #iNaturalist project "Bees concentrating nectar" and its associated paper by Zach Portman, John Ascher & Daniel Cariveau in 2021, titled "Nectar concentrating behavior by bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila)" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13592-021-00895-1

Zach Portman and John Ascher are #entomology experts specialised in #bees who have identified hundreds of #insects among my #iNaturalist observations. Thanks so much!

An example of a #nativebee concentrating nectar: Nomioides minutissimus, a ~3 to 4 mm long solitary bee observed on a beach in Catalonia. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120366203

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/out-of-season-bees

... which includes this observation of an Andrena cineraria mining #nativebee from the Cambridge Botanic gardens https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/138977895

#outofseasonbees #iNaturalist #entomology

That's a lot of bees and wasps for November.

Yes, some of these, like the cellophane bees (Colletes), have a late flight season, and the garden bumblebees (Bombus terrestis) seem indestructible and adapted to human-altered environments, but the mining bees (Andrena) and sweat bees (Lasioglossum) ought to have been long gone for this season, rather than easy to spot on a leisure walk across the Cambridge Botanic Garden, UK.

#nativebee #wasplove #entomology #climatechange https://www.inaturalist.org/lifelists/albertcardona?view=tree&details_view=observations&taxon_id=47201

My #nativebee hive has a bacterial infection 😩 from being too damp - couldn’t be split - hope they make it 🐝 #bees

@annikabarber Outdoors, the self-service at the nectar and pollen bar continues open and beezy.

Common carder bumblebee, Bombus pascuorum, November 4th (!) at Pembroke college, Cambridge, UK.
#nativebee #entomology #iNaturalist #iphonephotography (sadly I forgot my camera)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/141144993

@tso What a lovely (likely) leaf-cutter bee (Megachile) #nativebee on the first photo. Do you identify them in #iNaturalist https://inaturalist.org?