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amesbot · @amesbot
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#socialinsects #solitarywasps #solitarybees #waspnests #waxcombs #wasps

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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
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#leafcutterbees #leafcutter #bees #solitarybees #naturephotography #photography #nature #vegan #organic

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Rabi'a Elizabeth · @rabia_elizabeth
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‘Bear in mind that honey bee keeping is a lovely and informative hobby, but it is not a contribution to nature conservation. The western honey bee, to the extent that it is kept in hives, … despite media reports to the contrary, is not under threat. A hive of 40,000 bees will deplete floral resources that could otherwise feed 40,000 wild solitary pollinators, many of which are at risk of extinction. (This is not even taking into account the fact that honey bees harvest more nectar and pollen than most other species of bees because of their habit of storing large quantities of food.) So… moderation is important…

However, the efforts of celebrities to "help pollinators" by setting up large numbers of honey bee colonies on their estates, or of many cities to encourage the placement of hundreds of hives on buildings' roofs, while well intentioned, are detrimental to many native pollinators.’

Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso · @gbonillarosso
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or visiting a tiny Veronica persica. Yeah, the flower is 0.5 cm.
🐝

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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 174.

Over 75% of the 115 leading crop species are dependent upon/benefit from animal pollination. Only 28 of these 115 crop species are wind & self-pollinated.
We need .
We need to realise this.
Fast.



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ahimsa · @ahimsa_pdx
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The Bee Guy shares some home truths about saving the bees

"If you really want to help native wild bees:

Don’t keep hives, keep flowers. Wildflowers. This will mean you will ultimately keep native wild bees.

... Don’t spray poisons on your patch and forget neat and tidy – it’s so last century."

thejournal.ie/readme/bees-savi

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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
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Mornin’.

“Because all are equal and equally in trouble, aren’t they?”

Aren’t they?

The UN tells us it’s today. But they ought to tell us the truth about saving bees as well.

Thanks to @LauraByrneStory and @TheJournal for having me!

jrnl.ie/6071187

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amesbot · @amesbot
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#pollinatorcompetition #ecosystemservices #responsibility #solitarybees #savethebees #beekeeping #science

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Flatbush Gardener 🌈 · @xris
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It's a warm, sunny day after soaking rains eartlier this week. That means it's time for my cellophane bees to emerge in force!

This is my 16th year of observing this population in my garden. I'm always excited to see "my little bees".

Here's my blog post from the first year I noticed them, in 2008.

flatbushgardener.com/2008/05/2

#bees #anthophila #cellophanebees #solitarybees #colletes #groundnestingbees

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Mary C Legg · @pogomcl
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Four-banded Bee, Anthophora quadrimaculata Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/ 3.5 1/160 iso: 400 Srbsko, Czech Republic June 11, 2011

#apidae #hymenoptera #bees #solitarybees #insects #pollinators #invertebrates #macro

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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 154.

Plastic has become so ubiquitous in the planet’s that have been observed using discarded instead of leaves in the construction of their nests. This is not positive .


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Greenbirder · @Greenbirder
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Dunnings Miner Bees (Andrena dunningi) in the garden. Female bees excavate a tunnel, creating a series of chambers that will serve as the bee’s home and the nursery for their offspring., then they collect pollen and nectar from nearby flowers to provision the nest for the larvae.

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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
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Oh to lift gentle with the breeze from a willow catkin in spring…

Good night, Jim Bob.

Dream softly.



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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
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Bees be chillin’ with the Buddhists!
Have a great weekend.
Be good!

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 128.

The place on the planet with the richest diversity of species?
Tibet.
The highest highland on earth - the Tibetan plateau (and the surrounding mountains) is home to many of the world’s 250+ species of bumblebee.



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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
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Good afternoon.

Pause.
Spend a moment with a shower soaked wee mining bee.
You’ll be better for it.

Quick fact: Of the 20,000 or so bee species on the over 90% are .






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The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland · @beesanctuaryireland
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We have ways of making you flower!
This is mad!

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 109.

Recent research suggests that if food is scarce hungry will chew on plant leaves - not to eat them - but to stress the plant causing it to thus providing earlier for the bees.
Chew on that! 🤯

savingbees.ie



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The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland · @beesanctuaryireland
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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 108.

Research found that tomato plants flowered up to 30 days earlier in response to their leaves being chewed by hungry .
When this behaviour was mimicked by cutting the leaves they only flowered 5 days earlier!
🍅🐝🤯

savingbees.ie



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The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland · @beesanctuaryireland
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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 107.

Unlike females, male bumblebees do not perform learning flights on leaving the nest. They fly directly away never looking back.
😢
They do however perform learning flights on leaving flowers to memorise location.

savingbees.ie



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The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland · @beesanctuaryireland
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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 106.

Female bees perform ‘learning flights’ where they memorise features of an important site.
They look back to ‘fixate’ the site as they leave. Learning flights occur on first departing their nest and newly found .

savingbees.ie



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The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland · @beesanctuaryireland
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Late again.
We’ll keep an eye on that.😎🙄

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 105.

Bees are able to navigate using the polarised light patterns in the sky by virtue of their 3 ‘simple eyes’ or ocelli which are positioned on top of the head between their 2 larger compound eyes.
So 5 eyes in all!
👀

savingbees.ie



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