🐝 About 5.6 million bees, an unexpectedly large number 😲, were discovered in a New York cemetery.

🐝 This is one of the largest and oldest colonies found in the U.S.

🐝 Ground nesting bees make up about 70% of native bees in the U.S. and are very important pollinators. Cemeteries are an important habitat for them.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-just-discovered-5-6-million-bees-under-a-new-york-cemetery/

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Scientists just discovered 5.6 million bees under a New York State cemetery

This whopping bee aggregation is one of the largest and oldest ever recorded, according to a new study

Scientific American
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🇫🇷 Le grand bombyle est un spécialiste du vol stationnaire et un acteur important de la pollinisation. Sa longue trompe lui est fort utile pour se nourrir du nectar des fleurs printanières.

➡️ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombylius_major

Passez une bonne soirée. 🙂 👋

🇬🇧 The large bee-fly (Bombylius major) is a specialist of a stationary flight and an important actor of the pollinisation. His long proboscis is very useful to get to the spring flower's nectar.

➡️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombylius_major

Have a nice evening. 🙂 👋

#insects #insectsaturday #insectes #insekten #insektensamstag

Haha, bring it on! 😁 When I saw that hashtag, I just had to contribute. For wasps ... hmmm. You could go with #WaspWednesday. It's not super well-established yet, but it's not brand new either, so tomorrow's your chance to shine! 😀 I've also seen #bugReport for all kinds of creepy-crawlies. Or #dailyBug or #bugOfTheDay. And of course, there's #InsectSaturday/#Insektensamstag. Believe it or not, I've only ever come up with one hashtag myself (Farnsehen, inspired by a comment from arcturus), the rest of my hashtag schedule is borrowed from all over the Fediverse. I might have helped spread them, but I can't claim credit for creating them. 😅
Finally, the #bees are back in town! (Spread the word around) 🙌

But for my first official #Bienstag* post (I haven't forgotten, @Mauzegrafie! 😁), I'll kick things off with an old photo from last year. Gotta make room for the new bees on the block (yeah yeah, I'll stop now). 🐝

* Biene = bee // Dienstag = Tuesday


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BEES ARE KEYSTONE

🐝 Researchers in AU estimate far more bee species globally than previously estimated, specifically an 18–25% increase.

🍅 Knowledge of bees supports their conservation and pollination of crops, which is worth roughly A$745 billion per year.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🧑‍🧑‍🧒👩‍👩‍👦‍👦 Pollination is also crucial for our diet and wellbeing with 75% of food crop diversity and 35% of total food production benefiting from animal pollination.

🪨 Bees are what’s called a “keystone” group. Removing populations of that group would result in cascading ecological impacts (not in a good way).

https://theconversation.com/science-knows-of-21-000-bee-species-there-are-likely-thousands-more-268195

#InsectSaturday #NativeBees #Nature #Environment #Biodiversity

Science knows of 21,000 bee species. There are likely thousands more

A new paper provides the first statistically derived estimate of bee species richness around the world. But this is about more than bees.

The Conversation
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