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Native bees and the Great Western Woodlands

"A new species of native bee with devil-like "horns" has been discovered in Western Australia's Goldfields...Mining is basically wholesale destruction. Whilst they can do a bit of rehab, they're never ever going to put things back how they were, realistically...Dr Prendergast said native bee surveys were not required by mining companies or agricultural enterprises when clearing land, and, like other invertebrates, bees tend to miss out on the conservation limelight."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-16/horned-lucifer-bee-discovery-goldfields/105997548
#invertebrates #NativeBees #CriticalMinerals #mining #biodiversity

Time for more blue orchard mason bees on blueberry flowers!

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1740430609

#linocut #printmaking #pollinators #masonBee #blueberry #nativeBees

My linocut prints on cream coloured washi paper, drying on a tabletop. 6 are visible. Each shows a bunch of white blueberry flowers and leaves printed in pale green with hints of red on buds and a blue orchard mason bees on the lowest flower.

Peacetober 2025 number 7: Bees.

9 local bee species that are not the Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera).

#peacetober #peacetober2025 #DigitalArt #Bees #NativeBees

Bees laid out in a 3x3 grid, butt facing viewer. 1: Black-tailed Bumble Bee — Bombus melanopygus (large, fuzzy, black butt with two yellow spots). 2: Sitka Bumble Bee — Bombus sitkensis (large, black fuzzy but with a hit of yellow towards the upper sides). 3: Yellow-faced Bumble Bee — Bombus vonsnesenskii (large, black, fuzzy butt, with a yellow band visible near the top and large pollen packs on the rear legs). 4: Western Carpenter Bee — Xylocopa californica (pointed, shiny butt). 5: Blue Orchard Bee — Osmia lignaria (small but with iridescent black and green shininess happening). 6: Peacock Sweat Bee — Lasioglossum pavonotus (yellow pointy butt with three black stripes circling the abdomen). 7: Peridot Sweat Bee — Augochlorella pomoniella (small iridescent green butt). 8: Wide-striped Sweat Bee — Halictus farinosus (small black and yellow striped butt with some pollen packed onto its back legs). 9: Spotted Woolcarder — Anthidium maculosum (long, black butt with 4 yellow spots at each segment).

Northeastern North America might not have the lush colours of the tropics but I still think the metallic green sweat bees (_Agapostemon_) on the bright purple and saffron New England aster (_Symphyotrichum novae-angliae_) are just as fine to look at as any rainforest scene.

#BloomScrolling #bugstodon #NativeBees #insects #bees #Hymenoptera #Halictidae #Asteraceae

A sparkly metallic green bee with a striped black and white abdomen is on a cluster of daisy-like flowers with bright orange-yellow centres and rays of thin, dense purple petals. It is sunny and the background is full of greenery.

Male valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina) in the garden. August 2024 #cvvhrn #bugs #insect #polinators
#insectphotography #beephotography #nativebees #valleycarpenterbee #bee #photography

So, I can say that given the observations made by myself, my hubby and my neighbors, the bumblebees have made a HUGE comeback in #SouthernMaine this year (despite the drought)! There were very low #Bumblebee populations last year (more #CarpenterBees and #honeybees and a few smaller #NativeBees). A lot of us are #GardeningForPollnators and #GardeningWithoutChemicals , so I think that's helping!

#SolarPunkSunday #Bees #BeeHugger #BeeHuggah

A bumblebee in some seedum flowers (small pink flowers), next to a house.

I worry about the native bees and pollinators. I plant native plants to support them. Honey bees compete with native bees for resources.

In prior years, we has a decent amount of bumblebees in our urban oasis. This year, someone close by must have started a hive. I saw a lot of honey bees and very few bumblebees.

The island that banned hives: can honeybees actually harm nature?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/18/hives-honeybee-boom-tuscan-island-italy-aoe

#NativeBees #pollinators #HoneyBees #NativePlants

Can honeybees harm the environment? You bet: they deprive native bees of nectar and pollen.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/18/hives-honeybee-boom-tuscan-island-italy-aoe

The study:
"Island-wide removal of honeybees reveals exploitative trophic competition with strongly declining wild bee populations"
Pasquali et al. 2025
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225002623

#honeybees #nativebees #pollinators #EcosystemCollapse

Climate Change And Land Use Changes Combine To Threaten Native Bee Populations

"Warming temperatures at night combined with habitat destruction are the cause of large population declines in wild native bee populations."

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#bees #NativeBees #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #HabitatDestruction #EndangeredSpecies https://medium.com/grrlscientist/climate-change-and-land-use-changes-combine-to-threaten-native-bee-populations-a8e7845ab48a

Climate Change And Land Use Changes Combine To Threaten Native Bee Populations

"Warming temperatures at night combined with habitat destruction are the cause of large population declines in wild native bee populations."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#bees #NativeBees #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #HabitatDestruction #EndangeredSpecies https://medium.com/grrlscientist/climate-change-and-land-use-changes-combine-to-threaten-native-bee-populations-a8e7845ab48a

Climate Change And Land Use Changes Combine To Threaten Native Bee Populations

"Warming temperatures at night combined with habitat destruction are the cause of large population declines in wild native bee populations."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#bees #NativeBees #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #HabitatDestruction #EndangeredSpecies https://medium.com/grrlscientist/climate-change-and-land-use-changes-combine-to-threaten-native-bee-populations-a8e7845ab48a

Climate Change And Land Use Changes Combine To Threaten Native Bee Populations

"Warming temperatures at night combined with habitat destruction are the cause of large population declines in wild native bee populations."

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#bees #NativeBees #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #HabitatDestruction #EndangeredSpecies https://medium.com/grrlscientist/climate-change-and-land-use-changes-combine-to-threaten-native-bee-populations-a8e7845ab48a

"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

@plants A very short video (YouTube link here, #Spectra to follow) of several different bees busily working the composite flowers of Saussurea riederi an Asian Sawwort and cousin to Asters, in the #garden . With quirky, low-key music and a bit of wind and bird sound behind, maybe...
#nature #Bees #WildBees #NativeBees #BloomScrolling #Alberta #August #insects #inverts #pollinators #florespondence

Two bees- a smallish pale gold and black bumblebee and a leaner, smoother (low pale fuzz mostly on thorax) black leafcutter bee with thin white bands on abdomen, are busily working on a cluster of purply flower heads. Each 'flower' is actually a composite of many tiny florets which are light purple tubes emerging from a fuzzy white base. From the purple tubes, dark violet/nearly black thin structures- like grains of wild rice- emerge and those are tipped with the white actual flower sexy bits. The background is blurred green foliage, some sunlit some dark shadowed. There is a white border and in lower right in loose script the words 'bees love Saussureas!' in white.

A little #scicomm in the garden: you might remember I repurposed one of the prints I was working on for #ManufacturedEcosystems for a local pollinator garden. It’s now up, with its hand-printed collection of native bees and message in amongst the pollinators (native and introduced) in the garden.

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #bees #nativeBees #pollinators #garden #mastoArt

A few other pollinators in this 🧵

Common Eastern bumblebee on anise hyssop

Display case in pollinator garden with my 16” x 20” linocut print with a ring of bees plus one in the middle with collaged text in bronze. Clockwise from top: two leaf cutter bees (Megachile relativa and M. brevis), blue orchard mason bee (Osmia lignaria), the rusty patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis), a sweat bee (Agapostemon sericeus), eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), the common eastern bumblebee (B. impatiens), a long-horned bee (Melissodes sp.) and centre: eastern snail-shell nesting bee (O. conjuncta). The text reads “Our Fate is Tied to that of the Insects” in a ring around the assorted bees. Some small typed signs with captions are included.

Native solitary bee on sea fennel flowers:
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/306734511
#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #NativeBees #entomology

#InsectSaturday

🪷 Looks like I'll be getting gifts from local pollinators. First, I let locally native Maypops (Passiflora incarnata) grow in my #garden. Complex and beautiful flowers.

🐝 Then I enjoy Carpenter Bees, very important native pollinators, while they do their thing. The caterpillars of the Gulf Fritillary butterfly also eat the leaves as their sole source of food. So I enjoy those butterflies as well.

🥝 Later, when the fruit grows and turns purple, I get Maypops to eat with their tropical tartness. And I don't have to go to the store. Thanks, pollinators!

#BiodiversityGardening #HabitatGardening #Gardening #Rewilding #Nature #NativePlants
@gardening #NativeBees #Pollinators

Two Carpenter Bees actively pollinating a passionflower blossom, positioned on the flower's center and surrounding leaves, with prominent purple and white filaments and yellow-tipped stamen.

Two round, green passion fruit, hanging from a vine, partially obscured by large green leaves with some insect damage, on a backdrop of a chain-link fence, and greenery.

Els romanís i els limòniums en flor estaven carregats d'abelles, moltes d'elles ben remenudes. N'hi havia tota una colla, potser una dotzena d'espècies, de les quals he pogut fotografiar-ne uns quants gèneres: Megachile, Colletes, Halictus (2 o 3 espècies), Hylaeus, Bombus, Lasioglossum i Ceratina, a més a més de Nomioides. D'aquestes, el Halictus subauratus és ben bonic:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/303410648

#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #nativebees

Aquest matí he anat a fer fotografies de bestioletes vora la mar, amb la idea de trobar la meva abella solitària preferida: Nomioides minutissimus. I l'he trobada! Primer en un romaní en flor, però les fotos no foren gaire bones. Després en uns matolls de limòniums, tots en flor, preciosos. Heus aquí una entrada a l'#iNaturalist d'aquesta abella tan remenuda, potser d'uns 3 mil·límetres:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/303420300

#Hymenoptera #nativebees #entomologia

#Bloomscrolling break. And hubby wanted to remove the #MilkThistle plant near the rain barrel (we have a couple of plants). I was like, "Nope! The bees love it! It stays! Just watch out for the prickly bits."

#Bees #bumblebees #NativeBees #Beehuggah #Flowers #GardeningForPollinators #SolarPunkSunday

#nativebees

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