#wildbees

Please correct me if I'm wrong 🙏🙏

Furry-claspered Furrow Bee, Lasioglossum lativentre Canon 5D3 Sigma 70 2.8 f/6.3 1/320 iso: 160 Prague, czech Republic 7/19/2024 #

Most bees come out only during mid-day.  In fact, I usually don't start catching any bees with a net until at least 9 and in cooler environments it can be even later.  Different story in the tropics many bees are out, starting at dawn (but that is another story).  A few bees reverse those times and come out only in the late evening, early morning, and very rarely on well lit nights (but that is another story).  Its all about the flowers, of course.  In eastern North America you don't have much of this early morningness with the exception of the squash bees (in northern areas they are there only artificially maintained by our habits of planting squash and pumpkins for them, but that is another story) and...Cemolobus ipomoeae, pictured here like an elfin dragon stead.  It, is a fan of Ipomoeae pandurata.   Manroot.  It seems to ignore the other (native and non-native) Ipomoeae plants (unlike Melitoma...but that is another story).  It rarely is captured, but is it rare, or do beeologists just not get up early and look? BTIAS

I’VE BEEN SAYING THIS

Annemarie’s work is either an ephemeral installation inside (e.g. an evaporating water landscape, plinths of sugar) or sculptural work in the public realm (e.g. playground, skating rink, park bench, fences, commissioned, among others, by the Dowse Art Museum in New Zealand and the Dutch Government Buildings Agency)

@samirafee

Days are getting shorter now as we prepare to tuck our bees in for a long winter with as much of their honey possible to nourish themselves with so many factors working against their labors of love. 🐝🍯🙅🏻‍♀️✨✨✨ #BeesFirst #FollowTheHoney #Bees #FollowTheHeart #Love #BeeCentric #WildBees #NextGenBeekeepers 💝 https://www.instagram.com/p/B27iebBHUg3/?igshid=oyjjm95af02g