Pam Phillips

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I HAVE MOVED. My new address is [email protected].

I'm the head of Friends of Bees, a working group in Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice, and the Environment. We educate about and advocate for our native bees and pollinators.

Banner photo: Small carpenter bee (Ceratina) on a just-split raspberry cane, showing the channel down the center.
Profile photo: Coneflower with a metallic green sweat bee (Agapostemon) on the edge of the orange stamens above pink petals.

she/her if anyone asks.

Friends of Beeshttps://watertowncitizens.org/working-groups/friends-of-bees/
iNaturalist observationshttps://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=jadebees&verifiable=any

Pollinators of the Purple Sage

#BloomScrollAMovie
#HashTagGames

Empire of the Sunflower

#BloomScrollAMovie
#HashTagGames

According to the US Department of Agriculture, honeybees are the fastest growing class of livestock and have reached new highs. Part of this comes from the intense management necessary to overcome losses due to pesticides, parasites, etc.

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#bees #pollinators

https://wapo.st/4aosnzQ

Analysis | Wait, does America suddenly have a record number of bees?

A gold-standard source shows a stunning boom in U.S. honeybee populations. Could that possibly be right? A Department of Data analysis found two possible explanations, one more surprising than the other.

Washington Post

The first bit of Monty Python I ever saw

#IntoxicatedVisions
#HashTagGames

To conclude #PollinatorWeek, Friends of #Bees will hold a Bee Safari on Sunday, June 25 from 1pm to 3pm, in #WatertownMA.

We will meet at the intersection of Howe and Bolyston Streets. We will look for bees and other #pollinators, moving to Hosmer Street and finishing at the intersection of Chauncey and Bolyston.

BONUS: If you have iNaturalist installed on your phone, we will begin with a hands-on workshop on how to observe bees and submit them for identification

Among the #pollinators I've seen on my Purple coneflower are honeybees, #bumblebees, Agapostemon green #bees, Halictus sweat bees, leafcutter bees, long-horned bees, and Monarch butterflies. You'd think a prairie plant would be drought-resistant, but last year's summer drought in Massachusetts hit mine hard. I think maybe half of them have come back.

Here's a Long-horned bee, Melissodes bimaculata on a coneflower.

My first attempt at #Mosstodon
Snowdrops for #FloweringFriday
The clump in the center started flowering a couple weeks ago. The cold snap last week took away some flowers, and now it's starting up again.