Fascinating – and alarming 🐝:
“The Bee That Everyone Wants To Save”, ‘The Naturalist’ (naturalist.bearblog.dev/the-bee-that...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752...
#Bees #HoneyBees #BumbleBees #Insects #Environment #Pollination #BeeKeeping #BeeHives #BeesColonies #Flora
A picture of a magnificient plant or flower.
#spring #summer #wildlife #floral #bee #insect #red flower #yellow flower #orange flower #macro photography #botany #pollination #alstroemeria
Mason Bees: Everything You Need To Know
youtu.be/3eDGDYGHXLk?... 🙂
#SolitaryBees #Bees #Pollinators #NativePollinators #Farming #Gardening #Pollination #Food #OrchardBees
Fly in an orange globe mallow flower on my hike today. #photography #bloomscrolling #naturephotography #flowers #wildflowers #arizonahighways #fly #bug #insect #pollinator #pollination #pollen
#DYK that #sustainable #beekeeping:
🐝 Provides #pollination & apitherapy
🐝 Produces honey, wax & propolis
🐝 Helps maintain a healthy environment
🐝 Supports livelihoods of small scale producers
🐝 Helps achieve SDGs
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🥝 SURPRISING FIND: #Kiwifruit LEAFY genes sculpt flowers but DON'T control flowering time
🔬 Two AcLFY genes regulate:
✓ Flower organ development (petals, stamens)
✓ Plant architecture
✗ Flowering time (unlike other plants!)
#CRISPR double #knockout → severe flower defects, poor #pollination
🐝Did you know Advances in Pollinator Research is now on LinkedIn too?
🌻Follow our showcase page for the latest #pollinatorscience research and journal news 👇
www.linkedin.com/showcase/adv...
#pollinator #science #pollination #research #pollinators #conservation #ecology #biology
🌸 More Catkins 😺
Just loving the catkins on the trees at the moment.... just beautiful
#Cat #Catkins #Tree #Trees #Pollination #Spring #Trees
🌸How do non-native #pollinators change pollinating networks?
🐝By analyzing 2,100+ records in Chile, researchers found that non-native bees (like 𝘉. 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘴) are shifting #pollination networks toward less specialized homogenized structures, with 𝘉. 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘴 dominating 73% of the interactions.
www.explorers.org/calendar-of-...
@wcs.org @theexplorersclub.bsky.social #bees #lecture #nature #preservation #pollination #zoom #melaniekirby #ecology
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@theexplorersclub.bsky.social @wcs.org #bees #science #zoom #lectures #nature #pollination
🐝 European orchard bees (Osmia cornuta) are established in BC and are expected to invade the PNW soon. It's apparently impossible to distinguish their cocoons from native species so companies that ship bees to consumers will drive spread. #bees #osmia #pollination www.inaturalist.org/observations...
A marmalade hoverfly stops momentarily on its migration through the Pyrenean mountain pass. Photograph: Will Hawkes
[10/10] Les insectes sont des acteurs majeurs de la connectivité écologique mondiale, mais ces réseaux vivants se dégradent vite sous l’effet du climat, de l’agriculture industrielle et des pesticides. Les comprendre devient urgent. #geography #migration #pollination #biodiversity
Photo of the flowers and foliage. Each flower has showy stamens but also has four large, pink recurved petals. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
Feijoa sellowiana (formerly Acca s.), of s. Brazil, n. Argentina & Uruguay, has flowers pollinated by passerine birds (Thraupsis, Mimus, Tangara, Turdus, etc.), which consume the sugar-rich petals (we can eat them, too!). Insects can also effect pollination. #pollination #Myrtaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Prepare Your Garden for Spring with 3 Million Mason Bees for Efficient Pollination #United_States #Bothell #Pollination #Mason_Bees #Rent_Mason_Bees
Macro photograph of a Bee-fly in our Staffordshire garden.
First Bee-fly of the year in our #Staffs garden today; Bombylius major. #bees #SolitaryBees #pollination #biodiversity
Photo of a shoot with needle-like leaves and axillary flowers. Each flower has stamen visibly fused at the base into fascicles. The stamens are held together to form a narrow, slightly curved tube. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
Melaleuca peucophylla of Western Australia was formerly placed in the genus Calothamnus, but that genus is now sunk into Melaleuca. The stamens are in clusters & form a flower adapted to bird pollination. #pollination #Myrtaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Experts unsure how 'world's most destructive bee pests' landed in Australia #honey #pollination #varroamite
Tetragonisca fiebrigi
(Buenos Aires 🇦🇷)
#bees #native #pollination #argentina
Spring is coming at the @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social campus!
An #apismellifera visiting #trifoliumnigrescens reminds us how #urbanbiodiversity supports vital #ecosystemservices: From #pollination to healthier #greenspaces, even tiny interactions help keep city ecosystems thriving.
🌱🧪🌷🐝
The blueberry flowering season is almost OVER! 💮
Bees are making the most of the last open flowers 🐝
Blooming was unusually SHORT — leaving very little time for pollination... Will it be enough for a good fruit set? 🫐
Results in a few weeks. Stay tuned!
#Ecology #Blueberry #Pollination #Bee
A stinking yellow Celandine flower shines in the sunshine. A tiny wild bee sits on the anthers and has pollen on its body.
Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna) in #Sussex with a tiny solitary bee (~1cm long).
#bees
#pollination
#pollinators
#entomology
The blueberry bushes are still in full bloom! 🫐
This week, bumblebees OUTNUMBER honeybees in the fields 🐝
Data collection continues - every observation matters! 🔎
#Ecology #Pollination #Blueberry #Flower #Pollinator #Bee #BumbleBee
Conceptual diagram of touch-sensitive stigma movements in Mazus miquelii. Higher temperatures accelerate both temporary closure and reopening. whereas permanent (irreversible) closure tracks pollination progress: greater pollen deposition and faster pollen-tube growth accelerate permanent closure, while pollen-tube position is positively associated with the time to permanent closure. Pollen source shows no detectable effect.
Linking environmental & pollination-related factors to touch-sensitive stigma closure dynamics in #Mazus miquelii
New #AJB research by Xiao-Fang Jin, Tian Luo, Chun-Feng Yang & Zhong-Ming Ye
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #Mazaceae #pollen #pollination
The blueberry bushes are still flowering!
Bees are busy buzz-pollinating the flowers.
Curious to see how this will translate into fruit set this season...
💮 +🐝 = 🫐🫐 ?
#Ecology #Pollination #BuzzPollination #Blueberry #Flower #Bee #Bumblebee #FruitSet
"Japanese red elder plants protect their own survival by dropping fruits with Heterhelus beetle larvae, allowing their survival too. This interaction changes how scientists understand the balance between plants and their pollinating insects."
🌱🍃🪲 #JapaneseRedElder #Beetles #Pollination #Interactions
Walking through the blueberry fields today — The bushes are FINALLY in bloom! 🌼 — The bees are buzzing everywhere 🐝 — It's incredible to see.
Flowering is incredibly LATE this year... a consequence of truly bizarre weather!
#Ecology #Pollination #Blueberry #Flower #Phenology
Spring is right around the corner and the beautiful rotten smell of skunk cabbage is in the air! A fascinating local example of sapromyophily - flowers that smell stinky to attract fly (and beetle) pollinators. #diptera #pollination
Sunflower Power
“The sunflower is mine, in a way.” — Vincent van Gogh
#BecauseILikeFlowers #TheArtEclectic #sunflower #bee #pollination #gardenlife #botanicalart #hopeful #alive
Air pollution distracts insects from pollination and sex
->National Geographic | More on "Air pollution disrupts insect pollination" at BigEarthData.ai | #Insect #AirPollution #Pollination
