H. miserabilis is correct spelling. Spell check loves this name 🤣

In this dune world, silver bees surface to extract sought-after life-giving pollen and nectar and store it safe in the sands for their progeny. To do so they must tunnel deep. Habropoda miserablis, the silver bee aka Pacific dune digger bee.
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Northern California USA

Hope that for you too! If you can, check the 500 or so accounts I’m following for bee/entomology and ecology related posts

Pollen !
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You see the Eucera, mustached and long horned.
Male bee in Eschscholzia californica, the California poppy.
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Northern California USA

What a wonderful learning experience Ron Mishka

Hey bee guy

That’s great news

Btw - never been to Rocky Mountain National Forest - has anyone?

Just perused the ‘native bees’ section 🧐😆🥲 Perdita minimum ? the southeastern blueberry bee, Habpropoda, is laborious ? Hey if they spell Otorhinolaryngology right, why not a couple bee names? I hope the authors and editors got the Ear Nose Throat (ENT) stuff correct

Unseen until now - hilarious !

Nice work - thanks for sharing

Great !

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! My problem is photographing the butterflies !

See:
Trophic cascades across ecosystems by Tiffany M. Knight et al. (2005), Nature 437(7060):880-3
doi:10.1038/nature03962

The ecosystem is a vital, delicate, synergistic, interconnected food web with opportunities for nuanced resiliency, not a simple survival of the fittest predation pyramid.

Bee in lake of blue: makes me think of how fish help pollination. Imagine fish eating dragonfly larvae = less adult dragonflies = less bee predation = more bees foraging on plants nearby = greater seed set. 😀 From any angle, or as an angler, thank synergy ! See comment below !

I could definitely do more for people connecting native plants and native bees. I am a field botanist by experience and training - that work blossomed into being open to bees 🌸🐝😃

Thanks Pandra ! (there are a few bee poems in there too) I love sharing and “conducting” outreach on important elements and processes - SO much success for native bees and native plants when considered together (and also when people respect Native Peoples with thoughts words and actions) !

I’d appreciate being part of the starter pack Pandra

@jhemberger.bsky.social

@nativebeesociety.bsky.social

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