A sheet of paper containing three graphite drawings of bees. The upper left is a long-horned bee, the upper right is a european/western honeybee, and the lower drawing is a squash bee. All the drawings are shaded fully in greyscale, so the colouration of each species is not visible aside from light versus dark.

And here they are!! My mom's offered to buy them if nobody else does 😄
#art #traditionalart #drawing #pencildrawing #beedrawing #longhornedbee #westernhoneybee #squashbee #insects #insectart #natureart

Long-horned Bee
It's been at least a week since I've seen one in the wildlife gardens.
#poolinators #longhornedbee

Long-horned Bees
These ones look very different from most Long-horned Bees that I see in the wildlife gardens. I just learnt that there are many kinds of this species native to this region.
The last photo has a Bumble Bee for size comparison.
#parkdaletoronto #pollinators #longhornedbee

Long-horned Bee
#macrophotography #pollinators #longhornedbee

A brownish bee is inside a bright yellow flower; she has her back to us, looking almost like she’s standing up on her back legs, and she has her front 4 legs extended up in the air

I save pics like this in an album called ‘starfish’

Lady long-horned bee/Melissodes in Grindelia/gumweed, 2024

#dailybee #bcnativebees #nativebees #nativeplants #grindelia #melissodes #longhornedbee #vancouverisland

A blonde & brown fluffy bee is half hidden in a yellow flower- she appears to be peeking at the camera over the edge of a petal with one large blue & grey spotted eye.

I feel like half my photos are bees peeking out over the top of flowers, judging me for being a creep

Long-horned bee/Melissodes lady on Grindelia

#dailybee #bcnativebees #melissodes #longhornedbee #grindelia #nativeplants #pollinators #nativebees #nativebeesnothoneybees

A fuzzy bee is perched in the yellow centre of a purple aster flower. She has one large spotted blue eye facing the camera and is sporting large yellow pollen pants on her rear legs.

Melissodes eyes are so mesmerizing

Female long-horned bee on native aster

#bcnativebees #dailybee #melissodes #longhornedbee #pnwnativeplants #douglasaster

Holding a tiny dead bee in the palm of my (old white lady) hand. She is mostly brown and fuzzy, with huge fluffy back legs that look like fun fur leg warmers.

I don’t collect specimens but do keep any bees I find who have already died

This tiny lady Melissodes was in a Grindelia blossom on the estuary & is such a beautiful little thing

July 26.25
Snuneymuxw Territory
#dailybee #bcnativebees #melissodes #longhornedbee #nativebees #vancouverislandbees

A bee perched on a cluster of white flowers in a beam of sunlight against a dark background. She is extremely fluffy with tufts of blonde fur and has a large blueish-grey eye that appears to be looking right into the camera. She is also sporting a thick, sunshine yellow pair of pollen pants on her back legs.

Melissodes on yarrow

Seems unfair they’re called long-horned bees after the males when the ladies are such stunners

July 17.25
Snuneymuxw Territory
South End, Nanaimo

#melissodes #bcnativebees #dailybee #yarrow #achillea #longhornedbee #nativebees

And the Long-horned Bees are still very busy on the Rudbeckia hirta...
#kindness #pollinators #longhornedbee

Long-horned Bees on Echinacea
#pollinators #macrophotography #longhornedbee

A Long-horned Bee settling in for the night on one side of the Rudbeckia hirta while a spider works on its prey on the other side...
#pollinators #longhornedbee

Long-horned Bees
Foraging on the False Sunflower then tucking in for the night a little later on the Lance-leaf Coreopsis.
#pollinators #longhornedbee

A roundish fluffy bee standing at the bottom of a yellow composite flower collecting pollen. She has large blue eyes, white fur on her face, and her back leg hairs are stuffed with bright orange pollen.

Lady long-horned bees collecting pollen in the Grindelia to add to her already impressive pantaloons.

Melissodes females are some of my favourite bees, they just look like they’d give a great cuddle.

July 6.25
#bcnativebees #melissodes #dailybee #longhornedbee #grindelia #nanaimo

Long-horned Bees on False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides) and Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
#pollinators #longhornedbee

#longhornedbee on red ring #milkweed. #flowers #pollinators #botany #nature #photography #appalachia #southcarolina

Long-horned Bee on Echinacea pallida
#pollinators #longhornedbee #echinacea

This Long-horned Bee definitely had a foraging preference for the False Sunflower. But when it was time to take a daytime nap it tucked into the petals of the Coreopsis.
#pollinators #longhornedbee #parkdale

This Long-horned Bee definitely had a foraging preference for the False Sunflower. But when it was time to take a daytime nap it tucked into the petals of the Coreopsis.
#pollinators #longhornedbee #parkdale

I think this is a #nativebee and its name might be the #longhornedbee ? It’s so relaxing just watching them do there thing. I’m grateful that this one was focused on lunch so I could capture its portrait. :-) #macromonday #macrophotography

Hey there ladies! Ready for my close up tomorrow with the beeb... #euceralongicornis #bbctheoneshow #longhornedbee…

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