Okay, I put off watching the latest ZeFrank video because it seemed to be about honeybees, which are boring (sorry bee people), but it's actually an amazing journey through geometry, evo-devo, the other, cooler Hymenoptera such as wasps, solitary bees, and ants, the evolution of eusociality, "stigmergy" (a new one for me), and more!
#bugstodon #entomology #insects #bees #wasps #ants #EvolutionaryBiology #EvoBio #EvoDevo #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Formicidae
GROUND BEES
(I think they are #Colletidae?)
#HighPark #toronto #bugstodon #NativeBees #bees #Hymenoptera #Anthophila
New Ant Lab about GROUND BEEEEEEES (_Andrena_, _Colletes_, _Nomada_) https://youtu.be/jje1LPrsHbc
#bugstodon #insects #bees #NativeBees #SolitaryBees #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Andrenidae #Colletidae #Apidae
"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
The burrowing bees are so cute. They'll sit right at the entrance of their holes and, when you pass by, immediately retreat. However if you wait patiently they'll come back up again.
I thought I also saw immense bees buzzing around, but they turned out to be furry scarab beetles of some kind!
#InverteFest #bugstodon #insects #bees #beetles #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Colletidae? #Coleoptera #Scarabaeidae
the females—there seemed to be only a few, maybe only one very popular one—are golden rather than silver, and very slightly broader in build. periodically one saw a little "bee ball" with a female and at least one male rolling around the dusty, sunny slope.
i don't know what family they are—Andrenidae? Colletidae?—anyway, some kind of solitary ground-nesting bee.
#toronto #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
neville park
Gaël Covain
The Secret Life Of Plants🌱