I collected this #Bombus terricola in 2015 on the Îles de la Madeleine, an
Archipelago in #Québec - I knew of no previous records. Today I found an 1890 publication of Léon Provancher and it was one of two bee species listed. We now know there are at least 5 other #bumblebee species there too.

I just identified Ashmeadiella aridula aridula Cockerell, 1910 for the first time from Canada - Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan to be specific. This species has only been recorded in the western United States. #beesofcanada #beesofsaskatchewan #bees

Some #Bombus suckleyi collected from 1969-2002. It is a #cuckoo of the western B. occidentalis which makes its presence on #Newfoundland so unusual, but it likely also attacks nests of B. terricola. It is seemingly very #rare in Canada, especially in the east #bumblebees #beesofcanada

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😢 His 2005 Massey Lecture on HIV in Africa was really impactful for me. We lost a great one! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

#Megachile rotundata will #nest in just about any pre-existing cavity they can find, including abandoned nests of paper #wasps.

Oxygen supply through the tracheolar–muscle system does not constrain insect gigantism - Nature New evidence suggests that diffusive oxygen transport through the tracheolar–muscle system is not the limiting factor on insect body size.

🧪 #Oxygen supply through the tracheolar–muscle system does not constrain #insect #gigantism www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A descent sized #nesting #aggregation of Anthophora occidentalis in the Avonlea badlands of #Saskatchewan

Did you know that there are over 1030 #species of #bee recorded from #Canada? We keep a tally and catalogue here: www.beesofcanada.com

I really am looking forward to seeing #flowers again in #Saskatchewan, these from four years ago near Walwort

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That’s how the internet was.

I was happy to help out?

Correlation and spatial concordance between cleptoparasitic and non‐parasitic bee assemblages across urban nature reserves within Rome (Italy) Cleptoparasitic bee richness was positively correlated with both observed and estimated diversity of non-parasitic bees across urban nature reserves in Rome (Italy). Community concordance between cl...

🧪 Correlation and spatial concordance between #cleptoparasitic and non-parasitic #bee assemblages across #urban nature reserves within Rome (Italy) resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

You can find cool things in blue vane traps! Nine years ago we found this beautiful #chalcid #wasp Hockeria eriensis, which was a new record for #Canada (as per Halstead 1990). It is a #parasite of larval ant lions, which were somewhat abundant at this sandy #badlands habitat in #Saskatchewan.

It is not often that I see Protandrena from #britishcolumbiacanada and this one appears to be an #undescribed #species (though I believe there is a name forthcoming) #beesofcanada #beesofbritishcolumbia

Five “similar” looking #bumblebee species from one collecting event from coastal #britishcolumbia.

While identifying #bumblebees I came across an interesting male of #Bombus rufocinctus. The second image shows the normal head/face of a male, while the head in the second is quite deformed; the right eye/antennae are absent but the exoskeleton is present and is covered with hair. #beesofcanada

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🧪 It is going to be a busy year for #cavity-nesting #bee #research. 8000 potential homes for solitary bees just arrived!

Unraveling the function of the hooked hairs of females of Monoeca species (Apidae: Tapinotaspidini) - Apidologie Females of all Monoeca species have strong hooked bristles on the mesosomal venter, leg bases, and metasomal sterna (2–4), which suggests that they could be related to pollen collection; however, this...

🧪 Unraveling the function of the hooked hairs of females of Monoeca species (Apidae: Tapinotaspidini) link.springer.com/article/10.1... #bees #pollination #morphology

Entomology Job! Australian native bee systematics:

These wonderful #paintings of #bees were done by Hashime Murayama (1879–1954), a Japanese American painter and scientific illustrator and appeared in the July 1937 issue of The National Geographic Magazine. As much as I love #macrophotography, paintings such as these are such a pleasure to look at.

I have been interested in the faunistics of northern #Canada and #Alaska for some time. This lovely volume on the #arthropods of #Greenland is an excellent contribution; the three bee species are covered on three pages, though what was called #Bombus hyperboreus should now be Bombus natvigi.

I drew this for my aunt when I was a teenager before I had any knowledge of archival acid-free paper. It was framed without glass, and received the full range of exposure of dust and smoke from the house it was in. #pencil #art #dogs #sketch

UAV‐based remote sensing of bee nesting aggregations with computer vision for object detection Our novel application of UAV imagery and object detection models for mapping and censusing ground nesting bee aggregations represents a rapid, cost-effective solution for overcoming limitations in tr....

🧪 UAV-based remote sensing of bee nesting aggregations with computer vision for object detection besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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🧪 Phylogenomics and biogeography of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Triepeolus Robertson (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with a revised subgeneric classification of Triepeolus and its sister genus, Epeolus Latreille resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just got a pdf of this entire work on #chalcidoidea for a fraction of what I paid for the hard copy! Take a look: biologylibrary.online

This new book on the #bees of #Australia just arrived and it is loaded with fabulous #macrophotos and great information. I can’t wait to go through it thoroughly!

I must admit, I have not seen many specimens of #Bombus variabilis, this #cuckoo #bumblebee was collected in Florida in 1984. @paulwilliamsnhm.bsky.social

🧪 Inverted terra cotta plant pot bases for encouraging #Osmia bees that normally #nest under stones. Osmia inermis females were encouraged to nest in lowbush blueberry fields in Newfoundland (our study from 2015): resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...)