This is a beautiful picture, but it is #notabee. It is a bee-mimicking fly. There are several traits that diagnose it as a fly, but in this pic the easiest to see are the stubby little antennae. #insectThursday 🧪 #naturephotography #mimicry #batesianmimicry

Drone Fly

#Invertefest #Notabee
Drone Fly

a bald faced hornet is drinking from the bird bath/water station on my back deck. these are very large VERY aggressive wasps colored white and black.

theres one bug i dont think will be my friend #bee #NotABee #baldFacedHornet

Close-up macro photograph of a small green aphid perched on the bright yellow petals and stamens of a flower. The background is a vivid yellow, highlighting the insect's translucent green wings and slender body. The image captures intricate details such as the insect's antennae, legs, and body texture.

Have a great countdown to the weekend lovelies and for #WeekZforZoology #AlphabetChallenge have a #notabee 😉
#macro #macrophotography #photography

Fella needs a wee shave 🪒🦵🤭

So beautiful!!! The pollinator is a flower fly, by the way, #notabee

Picture of a Syrphidae on a daisy

Picture is labeled “organic honey bee”

ONE MINUTE FORTY INTO #BlackMirror #NotABee

California bees can be fish and have the same protections, a court has ruled | CNN A fishy ruling from California: A California court has ruled bees can legally be considered fish under specific circumstances.

This is a fun one: a (nota)notabee is (nota)notafish. In other words a bee is a fish. Really! (in a legal sense) #notabee #bees #conservation #scicomm 🧪 www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/u...

Honey bee Apis mellifera (copyright Fred Dyer)

Drone fly Eristalis sp.(copyright Fred Dyer)

#bee (left) vs #notabee (right)

Then I asked it (ChatGPT) to "draw a hoverfly that is a mimic of a bee" and it came out with this, which is a pretty good rendering of an Eristalis drone fly. www.animal.photos/insect6/hov-... #notabee #photography #naturephotography #AI #chatgpt #scicomm 🧪

Macro Honey Bee Apis Mellifera On Stock Photo 1574704057 | Shutterstock Find Macro Honey Bee Apis Mellifera On stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, 3D objects, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection. Thousands of new, high...

Sites offering stock photos often mostly offer bees when you ask for them, but sometimes show an insect that is #notabee. To wit, here is another hover fly www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/... #photography #naturephotography #scicomm 🧪

still working on it! also looking for any citations on the importance of specificity - why is #notabee important to you?

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This (nota)notabee. It is my favorite honey bee species in fact--the Asian "dwarf bee" Apis florea. They are lovely little bees (half the size of western honey bees Apis mellifera workers. www.pexels.com/photo/close-... #notabee #photography #naturephotography #scicomm 🧪

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Still another fly, #notabee www.pexels.com/photo/honeyb...

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Another bee-mimicking fly that is #notabee on the same stock photo site. www.pexels.com/photo/macro-...

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This is #notabee and also not a yellow wasp. It is a bee-mimicking fly of some sort. www.pexels.com/photo/macro-.... Beautiful picture, though. #photography #naturephotography #scicomm #bees 🧪

Can Cannabis and Hemp Save the Bees? Could saving bees from colony collapse disorder (possibly extinction) be as simple as growing outdoor cannabis plants?

Dead or baked? This photo is of a honey bee--it's (nota)notabee--as implied by headline. I'm just amused by the ambiguity of the message--is cannabis supposed to save the bees by preventing their death or getting them stoned out of their minds? sensiseeds.com/en/blog/can-... #notabee #bees 🧪

Alien honeybees could cause plant extinction: study | Alien honeybees could cause plant extinction: study Alien honeybees are artificially introduced into the environment for research purposes.

This is (nota)notabee, in other words it IS a bee, but it is not a honey bee, alien or otherwise. www.asianage.com/life/more-fe.... I THINK it is a type of ground nesting bee, based on this iNaturalist link: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/484631-... #notabee #photography#naturephotography #bees #scicomm 🧪

Difference Between Honey Bee And Bumble Bee Explore nuanced differences between Honey Bees & Bumble Bees, from wings to stings, and discover their unique roles in pollination.

This one is REALLY weird--a web site that is meant to describe the difference between bumble bees and honey bees. Both pictures are of honey bees, but one has pollen on its legs ozarmour.co/en-us/blogs/... #notabee #photography #naturephotography #bees #scicomm 🧪

What is Colony Collapse Disorder? - Live Bee Removal Are you aware of how important honey bees are to our ecosystem? Bees play a vital role in pollinating the crops we eat, including many fruits, vegetables,

Colony collapse is a thing involving honey bees. Lets find a good pic of a honey bee. Oops, it is a wasp, #notabee #photography #naturephotography #scicomm #bees 🧪
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Colony-collapse disorder, stress among threats to pollinators Consider the life of the modern honeybee. In fall, she and her buzzing colony along with hundreds of other hives in Lyle Keller s care prepare to winter in ...

And the Toledo Blade figures it is a sweat bee thing www.toledoblade.com/news/medical... #notabee #photography #naturephotography #scicomm #bees 🧪

Here's Why Our Food Supply Depends on the Health of Bees And how you can help save them.

Colony collapse is a honey bee thing, but Teen Vogue figures it is a bumble bee thing. #notabee #photography #naturephotography #scicomm #bees 🧪
www.teenvogue.com/story/bees-a...

Understanding the Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder

A honey producing company’s explanation of colony collapse shows dead hoverflies, not bees #notabee #photography #naturephotography #scicomm #bees 🧪

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Feds Will Take Their Sweet Time Evaluating Pesticide Linked to Bee Deaths The EPA will allow use of neonic pesticides at least through 2018. That's good news for Syngenta and Bayer; bad news for the birds and the bees.

Mother Jones is concerned about bee deaths, but picture is not a bee (it is a wasp) #notabee #photography #naturephotography #scicomm #bees 🧪

www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/...

Another #notabee, this one in a peer-reviewed journal (h/t Jason Keagy)

From peer-reviewed article (J. Proteome Res., 2009, 8: 1464–1473) about proteomics in bee brain: #notabee but a hoverfly pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1... #notabee #photography #naturephotography #scicomm #bees 🧪

not a bee but a really amazing bee-mimicking fly

From Guardian (UK) 16 Jan 2013 www.independent.co.uk/environment/...

You can tell it's a fly from the stumpy little antennae #notabee #photography #naturephotography #scicomm #bees 🧪

not a bee but a (very beautiful) fly

From The Conversation theconversation.com/neonicotinoi...
(the caption in article does acknowledge that "Honeybees aren’t the only species pollinating plants," so possibly admits this is #notabee #photography #naturephotography #scicomm #bees 🧪

Another fly not a bee

From Scottish Farmer 28 March 2013 www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news/pestici...

Methinks pictures of bee-mimicking flies confuse photo editors #notabee #photography #naturephotography #scicomm #bees 🧪

Apis dorsata worker extruding droplet of water to cool nest

nota(notabee): or, an actual bee

A worker of Apis dorsata extruding a droplet of its stomach contents (dilute nectar) to cool its nest and concentrate the sugar solution. (Copyright Fred C Dyer) #notabee #photography #naturephotography #scicomm #bees 🧪

Article about "America's pollinators" shows a European bee

Here the web site is about "Saving America's Pollinators" but the picture appears to show the European bumble bee Bombus terrestris. crownbees.com/blogs/news/b... #notabee #photography #naturephotography #scicomm #bees 🧪

article about honey bees shows picture of a hover fly

A hover fly not a bee

From International Business Times 29 March 2012

(The mimicry is exquisite, but it is #notabee #photography #naturephotography #scicomm #bees 🧪