GROUND BEES
(I think they are #Colletidae?)
#HighPark #toronto #bugstodon #NativeBees #bees #Hymenoptera #Anthophila
GROUND BEES
(I think they are #Colletidae?)
#HighPark #toronto #bugstodon #NativeBees #bees #Hymenoptera #Anthophila
Saw an XXL California bumblebee in the great camas today (bee not pictured). It's a fairly rare urban visitor around here, and this is the third year I've seen it in the yard.
Nice to feel proud of something in my overgrown, neglected garden
#gardening #NativePlantsPNW #camas #NativeBees #GiveBeesAChance
🐝 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
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
New Ant Lab about GROUND BEEEEEEES (_Andrena_, _Colletes_, _Nomada_) https://youtu.be/jje1LPrsHbc
#bugstodon #insects #bees #NativeBees #SolitaryBees #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Andrenidae #Colletidae #Apidae

2 weeks into spring
4 small Halictus foraging on poppies
13 above average
86F high for day
I was just reminded of the time I did a little study of bee butts to highlight the number of bees native to my U.S. state of California. Three of them are bumble bees.

Peacetober 2025 number 7: Bees. 9 local bee species that are not the Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera). #peacetober #peacetober2025 #DigitalArt #Bees #NativeBees