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#bees

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The Bee Guy
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These ‘between flight stopovers’ can last for up to an hour and #bees are not always careful about where they take them - sometimes the middle of a footpath can be the ‘ideal’ spot! So if you see a big #bumblebee chilling on the ground don’t always presume she needs rescuing!
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The Bee Guy
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It’s that time of year - people asking us about #bumblebees - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain what they’re up to.
Please #repost.
Every #queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce new queen #bees for next year!
So this is important to share.
Thank you.
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Nelson
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While walking in the woods, I came across dozens of Frigid Mining Bees (Andrena frigida), making their homes in the dirt of the trail! They were sunning themselves on tree trunks, and buzzing along the ground looking for promising locations to dig, or for mates.

This one was basking by what I presume was its nest. Unlike cellophane bees, they apparently do not leave open entrances, but fill their doorways with dirt that they "swim" through.

:inaturalist: inaturalist.org/observations/2

A shaggy bee with pale fuzz, sitting on black dirt it must have dug from under the path
#bees#insects
Tom
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Put a feeder on my Center hive yesterday with 2:1 syrup. Less than 20 hours and more than a third appears to be gone. This was the high population hive that felt light. Consecutive rainy days forecast and not much to forage on.

A square cropped photo showing an inverted glass jar that is inside an empty bee box that is on top of a bee hive. It is about two thirds full of clear liquid that is sugar syrup. It is approximately 625 grams of water and 1180 grams of sugar mixed together. There are some pine wood shavings around the base of the feeder jar. The box acts as a quilt box and feeder shim and has a vented rim that sits on top of it. One of the vent slots is visible near the upper left of the photo. The box used on this one is a medium.
#beekeeping#beehive#apiary
The Wee Owl Art
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Mother's Day UK - Sunday 30 March
Give original art this year - I have lots of affordable small drawings in a variety of nature subjects that will make thoughtful and unique Mother's Day gifts.
etsy.com/shop/TheWeeOwlArt

#FediGiftShop #ScottishArtist #MastoArt #CreativeToots
#Bees #hare #Landscape #Flowers #seascape #OriginalArt #Drawing #PenAndInk #ColourPencil #MixedMedia #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #GiftIdeas #MothersDay

A photo collage of some of my nature art: red poppies with bees, a hare portrait with wildflowers, blue tit birds with a blossom branch, a highland landscape with willowherb flowers, white cosmos flowers, a seascape with waves and shore.
Nelson
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I can tell it's spring because the Unequal Cellophane Bees (Colletes inaequalis) are out and about in my neighbor's yard! Please enjoy this bee investigating a crocus. (Sadly these flowers are introduced and may not help this native bee, but this bee is determined to find out.)

If you're wondering why they're "Unequal", inaequalis in Latin apparently also means "impermanent"; they only emerge briefly.

:inaturalist: inaturalist.org/observations/2

A small fuzzy yellow bee is climbing out of a somewhat closed bulbous white & purple flower, face first. One of its antennae is askew, as if it is scratching its head
The bee's butt, as it sticks its head in the flower
The bee entirely inside the flower, curled around the flower's reproductive parts
The bee perched on the edge of a flower petal, spreading its wings to fly away
#bees#flowers#insects
🦅 🪿RKeller Photography🏳️‍🌈
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Favorite photo from Chicago a few yrs ago. Had recently purchased a Nikon 40mm macro lens which is also an excellent street lens. This trip I decided to restrict myself to the the 40mm only. It was a great challenge and I learned a lot👍.

Closeup photograph of a western honeybee hanging from a purple flower attached to a long stiff but drooping stem with out of focus purples, blues, and greens in the background. I was not able to ID the flower but based on its shaped it's likely in the Ranunculus family. The flowers are at the end of stalks that droop under the flower's weight. Each flower has five light purple pointed petals that radiate from a center filled with white stamens with yellow anthers.
#PhotoHour#Macrohour#bees
Jake in the desert
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Playing some of this cool in-browser bee colony management game 'Monarchies of Wax and Honey'. I discovered it on itch, but it's also at monarchies.io to play in browser for free. It's so cool - simple, and cool. What is it that I like so much about insect simulation games..

A screenshot of the in browser bee colony management game Monarchies of Wax and Honey. It's like.. tan background with purple buttons
#sim#simulation#bees
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