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humblegrub · 7 months
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fuzzy puffs love artichoke fluffs pt 2
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woodlnds · 1 year
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Random bee behavior fact for those who wish to read, just because I feel like it and because it’s late and I’m stalling on sleeping:
Bumblebees may seem like passive, cuddly, and docile creatures, but they won’t hesitate to defend themselves if they feel as if their warnings aren’t being read or taken seriously.
I.e. the photo and diagram below, when a bee feels threatened they will raise one or more of their legs into the air, signaling to whatever or whomever may be bothering them as a message essentiality saying: “hey, back off, too close!”
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species pictured: bombus pascuorum, bombus impatiens
If their defensive posture goes unnoticed or ignored, they may be pushed into defending themselves by stinging (which is also a stressful experience for not only one such as yourself, but also for the bee.) If you ever find yourself getting close to a bumblebee while taking pictures, walking close to them, or just admiring them, remember this posture! If a bee does this, it is simply asking you to take a step back as it feels it is being threatened.
Now you can understand and use this knowledge to your advantage if you ever come across one in the future. (Of course, because it’s very hard not to anthropomorphize animals, I do have to admit that they do look pretty cute when doing it. Just remember to respect them though!)
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celestialmacros · 14 days
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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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herpsandbirds · 5 months
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Neon Cuckoo Bee (Thyreus nitidulus), family Apidae, Australia
photograph by Vengolis
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apsciencebydan · 5 days
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Things that make me happy, on a day I need it:
Fuzz-bum going in for the snack
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addicted2wasps · 4 months
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I don't typically draw bees very often, as they are a bit more challenging, considering they can be quite hairy, although this one has always made a mark on me. Rediviva emdeorum is a bee in the Melittidae that is endemic to South Africa. They have ridiculously long forelegs in order to scoop the oil from the spurs of Diascia flowers. There are a lot of bizarre-o Hymenopterans out there and this bee is certainly a contender!
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Okay, entomology brain is annoyed by a Tumblr ad
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Specifically, this one. First, Albert Einstein never said that.
Secondly, and more importantly, that is NOT a honey bee, or even a bee at all. That is a bee fly, a very important, very cute pollinator. However! They have parasitoid larvae! This means that they lay their eggs in the larvae of other bugs. Those eggs hatch, and those larvae eat the bug they're in from the inside out. Sounds horrible, but it's the way of things and I cannot understate how important these guys are.
The reason I'm annoyed about the picture of choice isn't even that they didn't picture a bee (not even in the right order- bees are hymenopterans. Flies are diptera.) What's really grinding my absolute gears about the choice here? Bee flies parasitize bee larva.
If you're going to use the wrong picture, at least don't use the picture of something that actively kills what you're trying to protect instead of the animal you're protecting.
Also, honeybees, Apis mellifera, don't need protection. They're fine. They're invasive in North America, even. Humans take care of them just fine. I'm a beekeeper, and I love them, but that's not where our efforts should be. We should be trying to protect native bees, there are a whole bunch that I bet you've never heard of that need help.
Anyway, rant over. Sorry, I just could not let that one go.
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fumblebeefae · 1 year
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Tetragonula carbonaria trying to harvest pollen from me.
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ljsbugblog · 5 months
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a girl with a snack.
Pink Flower Spider, female (Tharrhalea evanida), and unknown Vespid (family Vespidae), on Oleander (Nerium oleander).
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jellycatstuffies · 5 days
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Brynlee Bee
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ari-nemera · 2 years
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World’s largest bee, thought to be extinct, found in Indonesia
In 1859, while exploring the remote island of Bacan in the North Moluccas, Indonesia, the renowned naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace made an astounding discovery: the Megachile pluto — the world’s largest bee.
Wallace described the bee, which is about four times the size of a honeybee, as a “large black wasp-like insect, with immense jaws like a stag-beetle.” But for more than a century, that was the only known sighting of the Megachile pluto, and some feared that deforestation had rendered the giant insect extinct.
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“It was absolutely breathtaking to see this ‘flying bulldog’ of an insect that we weren’t sure existed any more,” Clay Bolt, the photographer who captured the first images of the species alive, told the BBC. “To actually see how beautiful and big the species is in life, to hear the sound of its giant wings thrumming as it flew past my head, was just incredible.”
Yo guys.
Also @bogleech Look.
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humblegrub · 7 months
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leafcutter bee song (unintentional)
see the video on tiktok here
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noctomnis-art · 30 days
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Royalty must always look their best! 🐝👑 Commission for @solidagold , thank you so much for letting me draw your beautiful character! I get the best clients! 😩
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celestialmacros · 28 days
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First native bee of the year! And pollen covered as a bonus. I'm very happy.
Unequal Cellephane Bee (Colletes inaequalis)
February 27, 2024
Southeastern Pennsylvania
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herpsandbirds · 2 months
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Brown-winged Sweat Bee (Agapostemon splendens), female, family Halictidae, South FL, USA
Photograph by Eridan Xharahi
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terra-bunny · 10 months
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Seeing this leafcutter bee absolutely made my day.
Leafcutter bees are solitary and use these leaf circles to build their nests. The leaves are formed into small cups, into each of which pollen/nectar and an egg are deposited, and then another leaf section is used to seal up the cell.
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