"It's Okay to Be a Solitary Bee": a free zine all about solitary bees with beautiful watercolour illustrations! https://magaro.net/tles/portfolio/its-okay-to-be-a-solitary-bee/

By Soren Lorenson (https://bsky.app/profile/soren-lorenson.bsky.social); from the wilderness of my unclosed tabs.

#SciArt #bugstodon #insects #bees #NativeBees #Hymenoptera #Anthophila

stopped by my bee patch in Christie Pits today

#toronto #bugstodon #insects #bees #NativeBees #Hymenoptera #Anthophila

Ein Gewinn nicht nur für #Balkonien 💚 🐛🪲🐝🪰
Der Echte #Beinwell (Symphytum officinale), auch Gemeiner Beinwell, Beinwell, Arznei-Beinwell, Beinwurz, #Bienenkraut, Hasenlaub, Milchwurz, Schadheilwurzel, Schmalwurz, Schwarzwurz, Wallwurz, Komfrei oder Wundallheil genannt, ist eine Pflanzenart, die zur Gattung Beinwell (Symphytum) in der Familie der #Raublattgewächse (Boraginaceae) gehört. Sie wird als Heilpflanze verwendet und angebaut.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echter_Beinwell

Echter Beinwell ist in Mitteleuropa heimisch und Nahrungsquelle/Lebensraum für #Bienen #Schwebfliegen und #Schmetterlinge

Spezialisierte #Wildbienen: 2
Auf Pollen spezialisiert

Wildbienen insgesamt:
22 #Nektar und/oder #Pollen

#Raupen spezialisiert:2
Raupenarten: 6
Schwebfliegenarten:1
 #Käfer: 1
#Hummel #Bienen #Biodiversität #Balkon #artenschutz #Artenvielfalt #Wildpflanzen #Wildblumen #Wildbienen #Insekten #Apiformes #Anthophila #Hymenoptera

Lançaram um #livro gratuito (@creativecommons BY-NC-ND 4.0) para identificação de #abelhas de Portugal. Por cá existem 750 espécies de 🐝.

"será extremamente útil não só para investigadores que trabalham no estudo e conservação de polinizadores, mas também para estudantes, naturalistas e para todos os que tiverem interesse em aprender sobre a identificação de abelhas"

#entomologia #ecologia #insectos #Anthophila #Bees #Hymenoptera

https://www.publico.pt/2025/01/22/azul/noticia/quer-saber-abelhas-selvagens-portugal-ha-novo-livro-gratuito-2119723

 https://monographs.uc.pt/iuc/catalog/book/478

@kristiedegaris "drystone also provides a home for many animals, insects and plants, with each wall containing a diverse ecosystem." – so true. One of my favourite pastimes is to walk along drystone walls in a Mediterranean island on a fine Summer day and spot the many solitary native bees that make their homes there into the little cracks. A few examples from Crete, Greece:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=35.60859259288748&nelng=23.828046067471583&swlat=35.4767366919973&swlng=23.690716965909083&taxon_id=630955&user_id=albertcardona

#iNaturalist #Anthophila #Hymenoptera #nativebees #bees #insects

Bees still up and about in Cambridge's Botanic gardens, UK.

Heriades sp., a small mason bee. These bees transport pollen under their abdomens rather than on leg baskets.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/239341832

Colletes sp., a celophan bee.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/239258494

Bombus sp., a bumblebee. This likely aged individual has lost its coloration and appears black and white.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/239342271

Unknown bee, possibly in the family of sweat bees.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/239342380

#CambridgeBotanicGarden #iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #nativebees #entomology