🐝 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.
#InsectSaturday #NativeBees #Biodiversity #Pollinators #Insects
🇫🇷 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
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).
#InsectSaturday #NativeBees #Nature #Environment #Biodiversity
Joe Wynne 🌻🚗⛰️
Madelief en Leed 🏳️🌈
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Neil Campbell
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