#Bees

2025-12-02

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

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Research indicates that although friendlier there is a ‘social awkwardness’ in previously isolated #bumblebees when they are introduced to other #bees. Their antennating behaviour (handshakes) is/are different…

#nature
#science
#education
#biodiversity
#environment
#tuesday
#worldbeesanctuary
#wildlife
#insects

@iveylineIveyline
2025-12-02

New Zealand's native bees are tiny - about 6 - 7 mm long. They live in burrows in clay banks. Along St Andrew's Walk in Mangonui there are some large colonies this summer. If you zoom the photo you may see a bee entering a burrow just left of centre.

2025-12-02

Every drupelet in a raspberry, every seed on the surface of a strawberry or inside a watermelon exists because a grain of pollen was transferred to the stigma of a flower. That's a lot of busy #bees !

#FactsOrMythsAboutFruit #HashTagGames

KellyAnn Romanych (she/her)kellyromanych
2025-12-01

bee kisses bring promise of lemons

Two honeybees visit lemon tree flowers. One bee in sharp focus on the yellow stigma surrounded by white petals. A ripening lemon in soft focus in the foreground.
2025-12-01

The perils of #neonicotinoids with the fantastic #DaveGoulson.

A regular dog flea treatment could kill 62 million honeybees.

youtube.com/watch?v=4nJeTA-bIJ
#bees #insects

Sprig 🌱Spr1g
2025-12-01
D.K. MacKinnon 🇨🇦📸🍁dkmackinnon@mstdn.ca
2025-12-01

My spouse reminded me that December has an #ArtAdventCalendar challenge. Good excuse for me to post my #nature art images. #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Bees #Photography #PhotographersOfMastodon #EastCoastKin #MacroMonday

Black and blue striped bee, feeding on the nectar of a bright purple flower.

Honey, the entomology community is abuzz as state does first bee count since 1962, when they had only 98 documented species. The state now has 352 species, and discovered 9 new ones

wcax.com/2025/11/30/vermont-re

#stem #Science #wildlife #insects #bees #interesting #Vermont

🏳️‍🌈 Sabina Lorenz 🦄sabinalorenz@troet.cafe
2025-12-01

@FotoVorschlag #FotoVorschlag "Löchrig"

Beklebte Forschungsbiene - hier eine Gehörnte Mauerbiene - beim Erforschen eines markierten Loches. Andere Löcher sind bereits besetzt und zugemörtelt.
Als ich eine Biologin antraf, die die Bienen beklebte, erzählte sie mir, dass sie die Arten zählten & erforschten, wie weit Wildbienen fliegen.

#photography #biodiversity #insekten #bees #wildbees #botanischergarten #München #nisthilfen

Eine Bienennisthilfe für Wildbienen. Ein Baumstamm, in den Löcher gebort und nummeriert wurden. An einem in der unteren Mitte des Bildes sitzt eine Wildbiene mit pelzigen, rotbraunen Hinterleib. Auf ihrem Körper klebt die Nummer 23. Die bereits verschlossenen Löcher darüber sind nummeriert mit 6, 12, 21.
MotweraMotwera
2025-12-01

A quick drawing of a bee.

A drawing of a bee, with some turquoise squiggly lines and dots, and a bright green backdrop.
Nicolas Hoizeynhoizey@mamot.fr
2025-11-30

“Harvesting on bluebells”

🔎 nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/ha

📅 14 juin 2008

📸 Canon 350D + 100mm macro
🎛️ ISO 100, ƒ/4, 1/200 s

#Animals #Arthropods #Insects #Bees #Photography #Canon #RebelXT

Macro photo of a bee foraging on a bluebell
2025-11-30

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 228

Research which socially isolated #bumblebees during a key developmental phase found that when reintroduced to the ‘crowd’ the isolated #bees showed an increase in friendly behaviour.
The opposite of what researchers predicted!

#nature
#environment
#pollinators
#education
#science
#meadows
#insects
#worldbeesanctuary

CheesenessCheeseness
2025-11-29

I met some sleepy bees this morning, a swamp harrier hunting for breakfast, and cute magpie (who was alone and a bit picked on judging by the state of their head feathers). I also managed to sneak a closer look at the goldfinch nest in my rose bush - 4 eggs!

A tiny bee (lasioglossum cognatum?) sleeping sideways in a dandelion flowerA swamp harrier scanning the ground below intently as the glide along a paddock next to a riverA female Australian magpie stands on short dried grass, holding a tiny insect in their beak, their head turned sideways as though lost in thoughtA small goldfinch nest glimpsed through out of focus leaves containing four tiny plump eggs with dark speckles/splotches.
Whiskers 🇦🇺ecoscore@aus.social
2025-11-29

#Bees are hard-working, uncomplaining, un-mechanised, highly efficient, create no waste, need no internet to operate, and make an incalculable positive contribution to almost every other species on Earth.
So why did us humans get to the top of the tree of life 🤔

Close up of a honey bee on a yellow flower
2025-11-29

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

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# 226 cont’d.

The use of antennae by #bumblebees to ‘communicate’ with other #bees in the colony, by touching their antennae to the antennae of another bee, is referred to as ANTENNATION.
It’s basically a bee handshake.🐝🤝🐝
#nature
#science
#education
#environment
#biodiversity
#insects
#vegan #organic
#worldbeesanctuary
#wildlife #saturday
#pollinators

Trixzitrixzi
2025-11-27

Bee suckling nectar of symphytum.

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦grrlscientist
2025-11-27

for all my BEEEEEEEEE friends: this, from PrincetonUPress arrived last night in the mail!

Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved by Thomas D. Seeley

my is coming!

press.princeton.edu/books/hard

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