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Ele Willoughby, PhD · @minouette
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For : lino block print with collaged Japanese washi papers on a white mulberry leaf paper with bark inclusions shows blossoming cherry branches and two of our wild, native bees: the bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) and the Blue Orchard Mason Bee (Osmia lignaria). I printed it by hand on 16" x 20" with various collaged Japanese washi papers for the blossoms, bee bodies and wings.

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#pollinatorweek #linocut #printmaking #cherryblossom #nativebees #washi #osmia #bumblebee #masonbee #mastoart

Last updated 1 year ago
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Jeroen van Tol · @TheDutchChief
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Zo’n huisje uit het tuincentrum en het werkt nog ook.

#rossemetselbij #osmia

Last updated 2 years ago
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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
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TheFreeDictionary.com - -osmia

@bomengidsnl Maybe the bees are ignoring the new log because the holes lack the odor of prior use. I think most of it is from the Dufor's gland. One thing I've done to encourage move-ins is to place a bunch of old cocoons nearby.
medical-dictionary.thefreedict

#osmia #BeeHotel #bee

Last updated 2 years ago
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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
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Female hornfaced bee taking a break at one of my insect hotels. Per an article I found, this species (introduced into U.S. from Asia) prefers pollen from plants that are also from Asia. But will also collect from related, native species. Mainly Rosacea and Fabaceae.

#bee #osmia #BeeHotel #InsectHotel #insect #pollen #pollinator #nature #entomology #Macrophotography

Last updated 2 years ago
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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
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Had three of these beauties emerge yesterday. Blue orchard bee (Osmia lignaria). Female.

#osmia #bee #insect #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #masonbee #megachilidae #Hymenoptera #entomology #nature #pollinator #Macrophotography

Last updated 2 years ago
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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
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Female Osmia georgica using mandibles to cut through silk cocoon. Nest partitions are separated by masticated leaf pulp.

#osmia #bee #insect #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #masonbee #Hymenoptera #entomology #nature #pollinator #photography

Last updated 2 years ago
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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
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One of the joys of running an insect hotel is that you have an abundant supply of charismatic microfauna to photograph.

#InsectHotel #BeeHotel #bee #osmia #masonbee #Hymenoptera #insect #entomology #nature #pollinator

Last updated 2 years ago
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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
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If you manage a bee hotel, one pest to look out for is Chaetodactylus krombeini, a kleptoparasitic mite. They nibble away at the nectar-and-pollen provisions in mason bee tunnels, starving the bee larvae. And in the spring, they crawl onto one of the surviving bees as a way to get to a new location (phoresy). In hotels that haven't been cleaned in years, their numbers can be so high that the bees cannot take off (see pic in link). This is one reason why I opt for disposable paper straws for tunnels instead of bamboo. I.e., I can unwrap all the straws and deal with mites if they are present. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7309509

#bee #mites #cocoon #osmia #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #masonbee #Hymenoptera #insect #entomology #nature #pollinator

Last updated 2 years ago
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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
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Here's one of perhaps 25 mason bees that chewed out of their sleeping bags today. I think it's another Osmia cornifrons.

#bee #cocoon #osmia #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #masonbee #Hymenoptera #insect #entomology #nature #pollinator

Last updated 2 years ago
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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
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Newly-eclosed Osmia cornifrons clinging to a frass-covered cocoon. For those interested in macro photography, this is a 7-image focus-stack using Zerene Stacker. Lens was a Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x.

#bee #osmia #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #masonbee #Hymenoptera #insect #ZereneStacker #photography #Macrophotography #entomology #nature #pollinator

Last updated 2 years ago
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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
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Two more mason bees emerged today from the cocoons I collected from my insect hotels. I think both are hornfaced bees (Osmia cornifrons) but males are hard.

#InsectHotel #BeeHotel #masonbee #osmia #bee #Hymenoptera #insect #entomology #nature #pollinator

Last updated 2 years ago
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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
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Also emerging today was a male hornfaced bee (Osmia cornifrons). This species was introduced to the United States in the 1970s to help pollinate apple trees. Don't get me started.

#InsectHotel #BeeHotel #masonbee #osmia #bee #Hymenoptera #insect #entomology #nature #pollinator #apple

Last updated 2 years ago
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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
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My mason bees started to emerge today. Pretty sure this is a male Osmia georgica, a species native to my area (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA).

#InsectHotel #BeeHotel #masonbee #osmia #bee #Hymenoptera #insect #entomology #nature #pollinator

Last updated 2 years ago
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Milvus · @Milvus
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RT @A_Haselboeck
Nun ist auch in Dibbesdorf die Balkon-Wildbienensaison eröffnet. Bei 12°C, Nieselregen und Starkwind wagte sich dieses cornuta Männchen ins freie. Die Gehörnte ist neben "der" Holzbiene vermutlich die bekannteste heimische .

#osmia #mauerbiene #wildbiene #hymenoptera #megachilidae

Last updated 2 years ago
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amesbot · @amesbot
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Honey Bee Suite - What happens when shrewd solitary wasps kill mason bees

#monodontomerus #parasiticwasp #masonbees #wasps #monos #osmia

Last updated 2 years ago
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Andrena (Homo hortensis) · @NaturAndrena
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Ein flotter 3️⃣er zum

Ich kann's nicht erwarten, dass bald die Rostroten Mauerbienen ( bicornis) an meine Nisthilfen fliegen. Die Art lebt sowie die meisten solitär.

.at

#insektensamstag #osmia #wildbienen #Naturbeobachtung #Hautflügler #Insektenkenner #artenkenntnis

Last updated 2 years ago
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Darren Obbard · @DarrenObbard
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Cacoxenus indagator sitting in the mouth of a cane in a 'bee hotel', where they can be found in very large numbers (early May, in the UK)

#drosophila #cacoxenus #Diptera #osmia #bee #Hymenoptera #kleptoparasite #entomology #macro #macrophotography

Last updated 2 years ago
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Sam Droege · @Moltenblue
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The Eastern Freighter Bee. This is bucephala. The largest and most robust of the eastern North American Osmia.

#osmia

Last updated 2 years ago
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