Two flies a small distance away from each other grasp grass blades above the ground after emerging from bee nests.

A fly grasping a blade of grass is still soft and with shriveled wings. It has just emerged from a bee nest below.

A view of a heavy-bodied brown fly with large red eyes sitting on the tip of a leaf blade.

A grayish brown fly with a yellow face and reddish eyes rests on a white background. It has a long beak held under and behind its head

Most surprising find @ bee aggregation '26 were lots of thick-headed #flies emerging! They're parasitoids of adult bees, grabbing them mid-air to inject eggs into the abdomen. Eww but cool! (I guess not if you're a bee 😂) Here's one on a flower: flic.kr/p/2ocMhfV

#Conopidae: #Zodion
NC, USA

Entering my fourth season of #Basque bees 🐝💛.

The cutest find in the field this week #firesalamander

Today's Easter egg is... another #fasciation find 🌿

This January, we welcomed back mycologist Dr. Lawrence Millman, an Associate of the Harvard Herbarium, for field trips across Cooper's Island and Southlands, alongside BAMZ Natural History Curator... This January, we welcomed back mycologist Dr. Lawrence Millman, an Associate of the Harvard Herbarium, for field trips across Cooper's Island and Southlands, alongside BAMZ Natural History Curator Dr....

How many 🍄🍄🍄 species in Bermuda? At least 185 (and counting...).

Many brightly colored pinned moth specimens in an Entomology collection.

Undergrad and graduate students! Could your work benefit from visiting one of the NHMLAC’s collections? Apply for our Collections Study Award, due Apr. 1. I’d love to have students make use of our Entomology collection!

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@cmhmaliani.bsky.social @colinpurrington.bsky.social Thanks for the ID, interesting to read about! The bee was on Symphytum tuberosum when I captured it. One day I'll bring it to the office for a better photo...

iNaturalist link: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Mystery arthropod on the hairs of an Anthophora bee species. Close up with a lupa.

Mystery arthropods attached to a Anthophora bee species.

So, what could these be? 😅 This Anthophora was covered in them.. (collected in Donostia).

Two dandelions (taraxacum sp.) displaying fasciation traits, with poster's hand folding out one.

Dandelion (Taraxacum sp.) displaying two floral heads (fasciation)

Fascinating fasciation season is here 🌼🙏 The same patch by my house never fails with an assorted mix of oddities each spring.

Amazing!

European red list of bees - Publications Office of the EU

IUCN updated Red List of Bees finally published: op.europa.eu/en/publicati...

Gorbeia Natural Park 🦋

Bombus dahlbomii visiting Vicia, photo by Marina Arbetman

The IUCN's BumbleBee Specialist Group's report on its activities in moving towards Red List assessing bumblebees worldwide and helping their conservation during 2025 is now out!
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Our research group, SARE Lab, is now on BlueSky… feel free to give a follow! 🌿🐝🪰🧬👉🏼 @sarelab.bsky.social

Hoy publicamos la primera cita para España del sírfido Anasimyia contracta, a partir de un ejemplar conservado en la Colección Entomológica @universidadoviedo.bsky.social. Con Pablo Aguado @entomoprofessor.bsky.social y @erebiologa.bsky.social

www.entomologica.es/publicacione...

First solitary bee of the year... 🐝 👀

Si te equivocas de entrada puede que visites la casa de una Donacosa merlini (Lycosidae). Un hembra de Eucera rufa (Apidae) es arrastrada bajo la atenta mirada de 3 machos que no entienden nada y que a pasar de sus esfuerzos no pudieron salvarla. 🐝💔🕷️
Laguna del Ojillo (RBD)
@ebdonana.bsky.social

Also, my friend and colleague Iñaki Larretxi was the biologist behind this publication, which makes it even better.

“leaf-cutting bee” in Basque: erle hosto-ebakitzailea 🐝

New Basque children’s book, where the star is a Megachile 😍🌿🐝 | Malen Intsektuen Munduan, a story about pollination and the different pollinators here in the Basque Country 🌸

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Pollination Overload: Why More Honey Bees Don't Always Mean Better Crops (Ep. 67) - The Bee's Knees Can having too many honeybee hives in our landscapes be detrimental? Dr. Ainhoa Magrach led a comprehensive review that brings fresh clarity to a long-standing question: how does the number of honeybee hives in a landscape affect wild pollinators, plant reproduction, and ecosystem health? We explore how the overuse of managed honeybees can sometimes undermine biodiversity and agricultural productivity and discuss sustainable practices that can make a difference.

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of joining "the Bee’s Knees" podcast, where we talked about our latest research on honeybees and what it means for wild pollinators. 🎙️🐝
You can listen to the episode here: thebeesknees.website/wild-pollina...

Favorite benches in my neighborhood (really holding back on a #lichen pun).

Generalized plant–pollinator phenological climate‐driven advances still lead to a decline in phenological overlap Climate change is altering the phenology of interacting species, potentially leading to mismatches in the timing of their interactions. This may affect the delivery of key ecosystem services such as ...

My 1st thesis chapter is out in #EcologicalMonographs! 🎉
With @curromolina.bsky.social @ibartomeus.bsky.social
How is #climatechange reshaping plant–pollinator timing (phenological overlap) in Mediterranean ecosystems? Can #biodiversity buffer mismatches?
Find out here👇
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

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So many kinds, love it !