Some solitary bees only fly a few hundred feet in their lifetime. Your yard may be all they ever know. Stop spraying!

Why, you may ask, does Passionflower have those weird stamens nestled face-down around the center of the flower? Let this friendly Carpenter Bee show you. First photo shows how it has to crawl under those stamens to get to the nectar. Second photo shows the results: someone’s back is covered with dusty yellow pollen.

These bees and these flowers seem to have an understanding.

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URGENT: Halt the 2024 Authorisation of Bee-Harming Pesticides in the UK https://share.google/zssoVgCEZWpCLkdzA

This morning I took out the double-screened divider that was below the July swarm. Capped brood and larvae so there is a laying queen in there. Bottom box had quite a few bees so there was probably some drift when I put the swarm in the top box. They have about 10 weeks or so to fill up enough reserves for winter and there's still some full capped frames of honey in there and all but two frames are old comb.

These bi-colored striped sweat bees live in tiny holes sprinkled around our yard and look like sparkling jewels

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 168

Research indicates that, for European buff-tailed #bumblebees at least, about 80% of early season pollen tends to be collected from #trees and woody plants.
Trees are vital for #bees and this is often overlooked.
#nature
#biodiversity

uhoh! thanks to unregulated pesticide abuse by greedy large corporations, #bees are dying out in #Rwanda

between climate catastrophe & #pesticides, an entire part of the #ecosystem is collapsing

#pollinators #food #crops #ecosystemCollapse #pesticides #ClimateCrisis https://phys.org/news/2025-08-rwanda-bees-pesticides.html

Seeing the world through the eyes of #shrimp #bees #apes #dogs is a deep-dive into wonder. It generates a humble understanding of diverse ways of seeing the world #communication #behaviour #vision #animals #Boycott4Wildlife

http://palmoildetectives.com/2021/03/17/inside-the-colourful-world-of-animal-vision/

“Peering into chimneys, scaling rooftops and even dodging sparks at an electricity substation, one woman in Cornwall is rescuing swarms of bees destined for extermination by pest controllers. Her reward? Buckets of golden honey so good, it has won awards.”

#bees

https://www.positive.news/society/buzzing-with-purpose/

Sac of pollen. #Photography #Macro #Bees

My wife does a great deal of studying on why we should work towards converting our yards to pollinator #gardens through use of native plants.

To that end, she has been only planting natives for a couple of years, and now we have an increasing amount of #butterflies, Mason #Bees, many species of #birds, and #wildlife such as deer (and yes, pesky Raccoons).

She has made me a believer. If you're thinking of changing your yard, research the good native plants can do for your natural #environment.

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2025/08/04/england-fall-short-at-the-oval/
An account of this morning's crazy hour of cricket at The Oval, a look ahead to this winter's tour and a photo gallery.
#cricket #TestCricket #ENGvIND #photography #Blaugust #birds #insects #bees #butterflies #dragonflies

Have you ever seen a bumblebee sleeping upside down?

Look at the way his little legs wrap around the grass!

Not only bumblebees like the sunflowers, this grasshopper also sleeps in the flowers overnight. Love seeing all the flying animals that are attracted to our flowers.

Yep I'm back...
Spent some time with my #bees and #wildflowers away from this.
Got so used to me as I tried to work out the macro on this evil life-depleting communications contraption that they'd try to climb on just to hang.
So what's been occurring?
We still fucking things up?

#nature #bumblebees #biodiversity #environment #worldbeesanctuary
#science #insects