Melissa Atwell · @MelissaAtwell
65 followers · 214 posts · Server mindly.social
TIL: All of the honeybees in the USA… are immigrants. The “European Honeybee” was brought to North America in the 1600’s and they are doing just fine, being domesticated farm animals. There are plenty of farmers looking out for their honeybees because they are an integral part of the agriculture industry. It’s the 19,999 OTHER BEE SPECIES that need our help!
#Bee #Bees #Honeybee #EuropeanHoneybee #SaveTheBees #Nectar #Pollinate #Pollination #Honey
#bee #bees #honeybee #europeanhoneybee #savethebees #nectar #pollinate #pollination #honey
Javed Ahmed · @curiocritters
112 followers · 362 posts · Server ecoevo.socialFolks, #pollinators like #butterflies
and #bees #pollinate every second morsel of #food we eat!
And having #wildflowers around in our great #cities ensures that they do well, and in the process, ensure that we eat well.
🍽️ 🐝 🌼 🦋 🍽️
#pollinators #butterflies #bees #pollinate #food #wildflowers #cities
Javed Ahmed · @curiocritters
112 followers · 361 posts · Server ecoevo.social
But we aren't going to focus on the lurid #latin of this pretty flower's #botanical name.
Instead, here's a native #bee about to make headway into one of the blossoms, to drink deeply of its #nectar, and 'bee' (pardon the pun) on its merry way - to do what it does best - #pollinate!
#latin #botanical #bee #nectar #pollinate
Richard Pierce · @tettig
488 followers · 4087 posts · Server mas.toOne of the gods of war,
Punished for his transgressions
By being turned into a cat
With a permanent sneer
And unfathomable eyes,
Pollinates the poppies by
Rubbing his wire fur against
The petals of death in an
Attempt to pay back his debts
To those whose fate he was.
Under the
Heaviness of
His being
He prays
To the kinder
Gods to let
The flowers
Grow and bring
Decay back
To bloom.
#poetry #pollinate #MastoPrompt
Catalyzed · @CatalyzedTransmogrification
146 followers · 3257 posts · Server stranger.socialOpening your flowers to indiscriminately #pollinate
Distributing out your pollen for a chance to propagate
Not caring who your gametes aggravate
Tony Zee · @Tee
509 followers · 544 posts · Server aus.socialBees busily buzz
Pollinate to sustain life
Life force of the earth
#MastoPrompt #haiku #pollinate
juma · @juma
67 followers · 1056 posts · Server mas.tobees buzzing briskly
pollinate in symphony
flower to flower
#haiku #poetry #575 #writing #WritingCommunity #MastoPrompt #pollinate
@tanweerdar
#pollinate #MastoPrompt #writingcommunity #writing #poetry #haiku
Stefanie Neumann · @KokopelliBFree
86 followers · 1045 posts · Server ohai.socialA #meteor shower, sparks miracles for some, predicts #kerfuffle for others.
Perspective - we need to flex it like a #muscle, hold it like #Alexandrite, let it reflect different colours in the light, and #pollinate inspiration.
#meteor #kerfuffle #muscle #alexandrite #pollinate #vssnature #vss365 #whistpr #brknshards #mastoprompt
Marjolein Rotsteeg · @MarjoleinRotsteeg
532 followers · 3809 posts · Server mastodon.nlbzzz bzzz bzzz
bees at work pollinating
my future food
🐝 🐝 🐝
#MastoPrompt - #pollinate
#haiku
#poetry
#poets
#writing
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity #writing #poets #poetry #haiku #pollinate #MastoPrompt
Tanweer Dar (Tan) · @tanweerdar
968 followers · 1972 posts · Server mstdn.socialThe #MastoPrompt for Monday 22nd May 2023 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallStories #MicroFiction #Poetry #smallpoems #pollinate #MastoPrompt
Stamen Design · @stamen
873 followers · 97 posts · Server vis.social
Paper maps and cartograms and gerrymandering, oh my! 🗺️🟨🟩✒️
Check out the blog post for our latest episode of #Pollinate to read the transcript and see some of the visual examples of maps in journalism that Denise Lu and Ross Thorn talk about!
David M. Self · @dmself
34 followers · 297 posts · Server mstdn.social
Hackberry Emperor (Asterocampa celtis), like most Asterocampa, this #butterfly is a moocher. It feeds on #nectar from #flowers, but does not #pollinate. This is shameful behavior that i do not condone, but i released the emperor anyway, because #nature usually knows what it's doing.
I don't capture #butterflies in the wild, but this one had gotten inside my house, so i took some photos as i escorted it out.
#insect #WildLife #urbanwildlife #butterflies #Nature #pollinate #Flowers #nectar #butterfly
Dezene Huber 🌻 · @dezene
850 followers · 1217 posts · Server ecoevo.social
While honey bees 🐝 are very efficient pollinators 🌸, this *preprint* (I.e., not yet peer reviewed) suggests that their #pollination efforts don’t produce as fit offspring as pollination by #native #pollinators.
The authors suggest this is due to honey bees spending time on single plants (and thus facilitating selfing) rather than moving between plants (which would increase cross-fertilization).
🔗 you https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.26.538464v1
Title: “ #Honey #bees decrease the #fitness of plants they #pollinate
#pollination #native #pollinators #honey #bees #fitness #pollinate
The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
2014 followers · 741 posts · Server mastodon.ieJust late.
No excuse.
Time and I don’t see eye to eye.
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 113.
#Bumblebees made history when over 130 years ago they were brought from England to New Zealand to pollinate red #clover for farmers - the first insect to be introduced to a country to #pollinate a specific plant.
🙁
#beesofmastodon #bees #bee
#beesanctuaryireland #beesanctuary #solitarybees #savingbees #naturephotography
#theBeeAt3 #bumblebees #clover #pollinate #beesofmastodon #bees #bee #beesanctuaryireland #beesanctuary #solitarybees #savingbees #naturephotography
Stamen Design · @stamen
748 followers · 49 posts · Server vis.social
Griping about #DaylightSavingTime today? Join the club, and listen to our #podcast interview from November with Andy Woodruff, guru of #DST #cartography: https://stamen.com/andy-woodruff-saving-daylight-through-cartography/ #PLN8 #pollinate #PollinatePodcast
#pollinatepodcast #pollinate #pln8 #cartography #dst #podcast #daylightsavingtime
Katy Chalmers · @katypillar
574 followers · 146 posts · Server wandering.shopAlternatively, if you’re tired of grass altogether, replace it with pollinator friendly native species! #Nature #Pollinate #Gardening
Dining and Cooking · @diningandcooking
31 followers · 1359 posts · Server mstdn.social
Vegetable Gardening: Growing Zucchini / Courgette: How to Grow https://www.diningandcooking.com/671843/vegetable-gardening-growing-zucchini-courgette-how-to-grow/
#bees #Cooking #courgette #crops #dudman #eco #educational #environment #flower #Flowers #Fruit #garden #Gardening #gardens #garderning #Green #guru #nature #no #outdoors #phil #pollinate #pollination #problem #VegetableGarden #VegetableGardenVideos #VegetableGardening #VegetableGardeningVideos #Vegetables #Zucchini
#zucchini #vegetables #vegetablegardeningvideos #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardenvideos #vegetablegarden #problem #pollination #pollinate #phil #outdoors #no #Nature #guru #green #garderning #gardens #Gardening #garden #fruit #Flowers #flower #Environment #educational #eco #dudman #crops #courgette #Cooking #bees
Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
1011 followers · 733 posts · Server mindly.social
#January 25, 1862
#OTD Charles #Darwin received a box of #Orchids.
After sorting the #Flowers, one #Orchid caught Charles' attention: the #Angraecum sesquipedale, commonly called Darwin's Orchid or the #Christmas Orchid.
Charles suspected an unknown moth w/ a 14-inch long proboscis co-evolved w/ the orchid to #Pollinate it. Many people scoffed - a moth with a 14-inch tongue?!
But, in 1903, such a #Moth was discovered.
21 years after Darwin's death, his guess was proved correct.
#january #otd #Darwin #orchids #flowers #orchid #angraecum #christmas #pollinate #moth #nature
Johan Blyatstra · @dynode
117 followers · 884 posts · Server mas.toMiddle of the winter but #bees are out. Not a lot of stuff to #pollinate though... #ClimateChange #winter #heatwave
#heatwave #winter #climatechange #pollinate #bees