#bluebee

They're cute, I promise! ❤️❤️❤️🥺​🥺​🥺​

Bluebee....2!

She is blind on one eye because of the burn

I’m starting to realize that me not being a very good visual learner is a problem- ;u;

幸せを呼ぶ青い蜂 ブルービー 今年は6月末に鹿児島のダマスクの風で見ただけ。 また、来年だね。 #鹿児島 #鹿屋 #ダマスクの風 #bluebee #ブルービー #幸せを呼ぶ (ダマスクの風) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTyKZ8hBEwO/?utm_medium=tumblr

What we don't know...about Andrena polemonii.  See this specimen?  This came from the wonderful native plant center in northern Delaware called Mount Cuba.  Matt Sarver found it doing surveys of bees and targetted the  plants that had specialist bees known to associate with them.  One of those plants is Polemonium reptans which is the host to the bee pictured.  So no big deal that Matt found a bunch of the bees except for the fact that the nearest known record for that species was on the border of Ohio and WV.  Does that mean they flew in from WV to visit Mt. Cuba?  Almost certainly not, more likely than not there are pockets of A. polemonii between these two sites...just no one has looked.  Photo by Anders Croft.      Yup, they are blueish

The indigo insect was last spotted in central Florida in 2016, five years after it was first identified. But this spring, just as Americans began to hunker down because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rare blue bees, known scientifically as Osmia calaminthae, were rediscovered in the same region. Chase Kimmel of the Florida Museum of Natural History confirmed the bees’ survival in March. Although Kimmel currently doesn’t have a good estimate of how many blue calaminthas remain in the wild, he remains hopeful that the brightly colored bee will make a comeback in the coming years. "It’s one thing to read about habitat loss and development and another to be driving for 30-40 minutes through miles of orange groves just to get to a really small conservation site,” Kimmel said. “It puts into perspective how much habitat loss affects all the animals that live in this area.” Source: Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/blue-bee-feared-be-extinct-found-florida-180974957/