Anton Chekhov, from The Complete Plays of Anton Chekhov; "Ivanoff,"
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Ground-nesting bee time! (Well, all the warm months are, but I see them mostly first thing in the spring before everything grows in.)
Unequal Cellophane Bee female in her nest (Colletes inaequalis)
March 13, 2024
Southeastern Pennsylvania
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Spring Mining Bee (Colletes cunicularius), family Colletidae, found across much of Europe and Asia
This bee is a solitary burrowing nester.
photograph by SPACEBIRDY
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The Duchess of Teck’s Collet Necklace.
It is likely that this necklace (or the greater part of the stones now in it) came to Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, from her aunt, Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester.
A year later, on the Duchess of Gloucester’s death, the Princess also received from her aunt her ‘single row of diamonds’, in addition to other jewellery. A later inventory of Princess Mary Adelaide’s jewellery records the legacy from the Duchess of Gloucester as ‘A Diamond Necklace of 49 Diamonds, and clasp of small Diamonds’, which is probably to be identified with this necklace.
The necklace was bequeathed by Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, and was inherited by Queen Elizabeth II in 2002.
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Ernest Hemingway, from The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway; "The Snows of Kilimanjaro,"
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First native bee of the year! And pollen covered as a bonus. I'm very happy.
Unequal Cellophane Bee (Colletes inaequalis)
February 27, 2024
Southeastern Pennsylvania
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pierregasly: Miss you Tonio. 💜 Thanks to everyone who joined today, had a thought or prayers for Tonio & Dilano. Proud of our sport in moments like today. RIP young champs.
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