Mastodawn

🐝🔍 Ah, the cutting-edge revelation that queen #bees have an exclusive VIP wax #suite for their grand entrance. 🥳 Because, clearly, the #insect #monarchy demands the kind of #luxury that outshines even human #royalty. 👑 Spoiler alert: the #worker bees are still stuck in the economy section. 🤦‍♂️
https://cen.acs.org/materials/biobased-materials/queen-bees-special-wax/104/web/2026/06 #bee #HackerNews #ngated

Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers

Royal wax, as well as royal jelly, determines the fate of a honeybee larva

Chemical & Engineering News

Adam Trickett

8h ago

Busy bee

https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/3509291699916507033

#blip of a #bee foraging on a purple #cornflower in a garden.

#blipfoto #gimp #rawtherapee #photography #france #insects

Busy bee | ajt

Like this bee I've had a busy day. I started with a bike ride. I did two longer loops rather than three shorter ones. The longer loops added...

Blipfoto

Tau 15h ago

Duh! I ask you! Donned all wet gear, went to the plot and... it stopped raining. Bah!

Two hours trimming the plot and adjacent area, this one go get rid of all yellow flowers, on the grounds that they are presumably not bee-friendly, so went around slowly carefully to keep lillies and orchids which are bee-friendly. So far so good but haven't finished, more tomorrow.

Phew!
#allotment #lilly #orchid #photography #bee #buttercups #flowers

Sky 20h ago

Eine Ackerhummel auf Pollensuche im blüheneden Salbei.

🇬🇧 A field bumblebee searching for pollen in blooming sage.

📸 Olympus OM-D E‑M5 Mark III, M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm F2.8 Macro
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#bienen #bee #insects #hummel #bumblebee #nature

ater 21h ago

My favorite genre of photo (blurry bee in mid-flight headed towards a flower)

#bee #pollinator #insect #Insectodon

John

22h ago

Today’s news seems heavy on #bee content.

Where are #TheGoodies ?

BeeDay BeeDay #BeeDay #auspol #environment

John

1d ago

Crop failure fears as deadly #bee #parasite wipes out hives and forces #beekeepers to quit.

A new report has predicted a shortfall of close to 300,000 #beehives for this year's peak #crop #pollination season in August, as the deadly parasite #varroamite wipes out bees.

The cost of managing varroa and the development of insecticide resistance is forcing half of Australia's beekeepers to quit.

#auspol #apiarist #agriculture #Australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-04/pollination-shortfall-food-crops-fears-bee-parasite-varroa/106752974

'Not enough' bees for crop pollination as parasite takes over

A new report warns of a massive pollination shortfall in Australia this year as varroa mite wipes out hives and forces beekeepers out.

April🐝1d ago

#art #photo #photography #bloomscrolling #bee

Willa

1d ago

It's bees on flowers season!

Here's a female ligated furrow bee (Halictus ligatus) on Philadelphia fleabane (Erigeron philadelphicus), from this morning's hike on the Wiley Trails:

#BloomScrollingWithBee #BloomScrollingWithInsect #bee #hymenoptera #insects