We're a family-run, Ozarks-based maker of native bee nurseries that are: 🌎 Compostable/recyclable 🐝 For declining pollinators 💚 Hand-made w/ luv
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Joined February 2019
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A very hard-working early (?) bumblebee, showing a bit of wear & tear on the wings 🐝 #bumblebee #pollinators @BumblebeeTrust @Bumble_Watching @BeeFosterCo #gardenforwildlife #TwitterNatureCommunity – at Crayford, London
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Habropoda miserabilis visiting the same cluster of Salvia bushes I've seen them on in previous weeks. Always trying to clean the sticky pollen from their faces... [Alameda, CA 4-18-2021] #bees #nativebees #macro #becurious
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Nice day today! Done with some field work, and orchard bees 🐝 are happy with their new house🏡
#Pollination #Apple 🍏 #MasonBees #WildBees #SolitaryBees 🐝#Pollinator #Fruit #Bloom 🌸
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A bee researcher (bee-searcher?) pointed me to some cellophane bees today! These small friends build little individual mounds and lay their eggs inside, provisioned with pollen. They're very shy. Walk by a mound and a bee will duck back down, then slowly emerge again.
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I saw a bee yesterday with a fair amount of pollen on it's rear leg
So I took a photograph of it!
Great to see spring arriving :)
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Dandelion season is upon us! Dandelions are a fantastic source of pollen and nectar for pollinating insects, especially solitary bees. Please don't pull, spray or mow these wonderful wildflowers - let them grow. Here are just a few solitary bees seen using them earlier this week.
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Didn't get a side shot, so this is a little grey bee with very good facial floof. #yvrbees
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Nice weather this morning! A wild #solitary #bee is busy in pollinating #pear flowers in the #backyard #orchard! #pollinators #NativeBees #UrbanGarden #BackyardBees #TreeFruit
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Green bee + yellow pollen, always an excellent color combo. [Agapostemon texanus female on rock rose, Alameda, CA 3-20-2021] #bees #nativebees #macro #becurious
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A very snuggly mason bee (Osmia coloradensis). Ignore my filthy hand. We had a real connection.
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The return of carpenter bee season also reminded me of how much color variety there can be in Xylocopa tabaniformis orpifex males. This fellow is almost completely black, but the blue eyes and white plates on the face give him away. [Alameda, CA 3-06-2021] #bees #nativebees
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My Red mason bee babies! 68 more than last year. Good luck to all of you. 🐝 ❤️
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Interesting article in the National Geographic about the loss of Bees nationalgeographic.com/anima…
Really concerning: habitat loss leading to a decreased biodiversity is surely one of the key challenges of the next century.
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Bee wings can be really beautiful. This pristine set is attached to a Bombus occidentalis worker alighted upon some sort of purple Asteraceae.
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#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
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Female Leafcutter #bees cut sections off leaves with their mandibles and carry them back to their nest to create ‘cells’ into which they lay their eggs. Don’t worry they won’t destroy your plants - you’re lucky to have them!
