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2y

In case you were wondering, 1/8000 sec is not a short enough shutter speed to freeze a bee's wings.

#photography #bees

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2y

In case anyone’s not too sure.. this is what a 'spring lawn' is supposed to look like.

Breakdown:

• No irritating lawn-mower lines.
• A multitude of flowers.
• Lawn-mower rests, unperturbed in garden shed.
• No Louis X1V - 'rules over nature'.
• No walking up and down for hours, making a really annoying, loud noise and irritating the neighbours.

• Just peace, quiet and LOTS of bees.

#Nature #NoMowMarch #NoMowApril #ClimateDiary #Climat #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #WildLife #Insects #Bees

An image of a lush, unmown lawn in late March, showing lots of small flowers, which are mostly daisies, primroses and dandelions. Soon there will be buttercups too.
At the foot of the garden is a blossoming cherry tree in front of a blue sky, with a terracotta roof to the side. And yes... for the observant, just in front, there are the beginnings of what is a roughly 10 metre stretch of raspberry bushes (two lines deep! Yum!)

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350d

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 181

Bumblebees tend to start struggling to fly when the ambient temperature rises above 100°F (38°C).

#bees
#climate
#nature
#environment
#insects
#education
#science
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2y

now this is some buzzworthy real estate

#bees

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2y

Bee butt.

#Bloomscrolling #pollinators #bees

The backend of a bumblebee as it burrows into the center of a magenta rose.

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323d

Summer’s last stand even in Fall. A few busy bees making the most of it.

#sunflower #nature #photography #naturephotography #bees

A close-up photo of a large sunflower with bright yellow petals against a pale blue sky. The flower’s center shows an unusual pattern of green and brown textures, and several bees are clustered along the lower edge, collecting pollen.

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2y

Replacing some or all of your #lawn with native plants and food is one way to support each other and the environment – but it truly does so much more than that.

Here are some significant research-backed and expert-approved benefits you’ll experience when you make the switch.

#nolawn #nolawns #rewilding #gardening #biodiversity #cities #urbannature #insects #ecology #landscaping #ediblelandscaping #mentalhealth #bees

https://www.rewildingmag.com/6-reasons-to-downsize-your-lawn/

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309d

The different colors of the cells indicate pollen from different species of plants, packed away to be used as food for hungry honey bee larvae.

#bees #geometry #nature #HoneyBees #Pollen

Photo of a honeycomb, face on, in close-up showing about 100 cells, with three or four colors of pollen in them arrayed somewhat randomly. A few cells are empty.

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248d

The January cover of Genome Biology and Evolution features a Review by Brenman-Sutner & Zayed on how new developments in 'omics techniques have enabled unique insights into the ecology and evolution of bees.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf226

📸 Amro Zayed

#genome #evolution #bees #pollinators

Genome Biology and Evolution | January 2026 cover

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1y

Bike security in Bristol is reaching new levels. #bike #bees #bristol

A bicycle attached to a Sheffield stand with a U-lock. It is guarded by an entire swarm of cute honey bees, hanging from its handlebars.

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1y

Bee happy.

#bees #photography #CarpenterBee #nature #naturephotography #insects #insectphotography

Close up color photo of a carpenter bee in flight facing toward the camera.

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1y

Honey bee on Lavender in my garden

#Bloomscrolling #Bees #Photography

A close up of a honey bee on purple lavender

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1y

Dude is coming back a tonne heavier than when he left the hive this ayem.

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#bees #pollinators #Bloomscrolling #nature

A bumblebee clinging to a wrought iron fence as he recalibrates his pollen payload. He is blanketed stem to stern with pollen spores.

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1y

🌸 Echinacea is a plant known for attracting insects, especially bees, bumblebees, and butterflies 🐝🦋.

#echinacea #bumblebees #bees #natuur #nature #naturephotography #insects #natur #insecten

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177d

#News: HUGE win for the #bees in the #Amazon! 🧐🐝 Stingless bees are the first #insects EVER granted legal rights. They are threatened by #mining and #palmoil. We must protect them 🌴☠️🚫 #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife #Deforestation @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/29/stingless-bees-from-the-amazon-granted-legal-rights-in-world-first?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

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137d

Bee hotel on a misty morning
#photography #pollinators #bees #nature

4 foot tall wooden structure with a roof like a house. The Ope. Face is filled with logs, bricks, and honeycomb shaped holes. All have holes of various sizes to accommodate the preferences of solitary bees and bugs. At the top is a birdhouse. It is surrounded by greenery and purple flowers.

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134d

Bee in the now.
#bloomscrolling #bees #photography #gardening

An eastern carpenter bee forages among lilac blooms

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151d

The first spring butterfly, the first spring bees and lilacs! #insects #bees #butterfly #lilac #flowers #photography #nature #spring #naturephotography

This photo shows a medium sized butterfly. It has a brown body and wings. The tips of its wings are black with white spots and it has an orange bar on each wing and at the back edge of the wing. It is a red admiral!

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113d

Once did I see
A sounding bee,
Amongst her sweetned swarme…

—“Madrigall: Of a Bee”, by Simion Grahame (c.1570–1614)
published in JACOBEAN PARNASSUS: Scottish Poetry from the Reign of James I (ASL, 2022)

A poem for World Bee Day 🐝 – today, 20 May

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/jacobean-parnassus/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EarlyModern #16thcentury #17thcentury #Jacobean #bees #WorldBeeDay

Madrigall: Of a Bee.
Simion Grahame

Once did I see
A sounding bee,
Amongst her sweetned swarme;
Still would shee flee
And favour me,
Then did I dreade no harme.

Now, whilst in nectred-glorie of her gaines
She sitts and suckes the fayre well-florisht flower,
My sugred hopes are turn’d to bitter paines,
And lookt-for-sweete is nothing elles but sower.
Ah, cruel sweet, bee sweet and cure my smart;
Honny my mouth, but doe not stinge my hart.

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112d

Seillean
dian, dùrachdach
a’ siubhal nam blàth…

—Ruaraidh MacThòmais, “A’ Siubhal nam Blàth”
from Sùil air fàire: dain ùra le Ruaraidh MacThòmais / Surveying the horizon: recent poems by Derick Thomson (Acair, 2007)

A Gaelic poem for World Bee Day 🐝

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #20thcentury #bees #WorldBeeDay

A’ Siubhal nam Blàth
Ruaraidh MacThòmais

Seillean
dian, dùrachdach
a’ siubhal nam blàth
mar a bhà
ann an Àird nam Murchan
o chionn dà cheud bliadhna gu leth
agus an dubh-Mhùideartach
ga dhian-amharc,
agus a-rithist
ann am meadhan a’ gheamhraidh
a’ dùsgadh na cuimhne sin.
An dùil am mair
blas na meala sin
dà cheud bliadhna gu leth eile
is a’ Ghàidhlig leth-bheò
ann an duilleagan sgoileir.
Carson nach maireadh
agus Horace is Catullus
fhathast a’ dùsgadh am blàth
nar cridheachan.

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Reconnoitering the Blossoms
Derick Thomson

A bee
steadily, industriously
reconnoitering the blossoms
just as
in Ardnamurchan
two and a half centuries ago
while the Dark-Moidart-man
observed it keenly
and later
in midwinter
revived the memory of it.
I wonder if the taste
of that honey will last
another two and a half centuries,
with Gaelic half-alive
on the pages of scholars.
Why not
when Horace and Catullus
still blossom
in our hearts.

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112d

Here are my bees,
brazen, blurs on paper,
besotted; buzzwords, dancing
their flawless, airy maps…

—Carol Ann Duffy, “Bees”
published in THE BEES (Picador, 2017)

A poem for World Bee Day 🐝

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/carol-ann-duffy/the-bees/9781509852925

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #bees #WorldBeeDay

Bees
by Carol Ann Duffy

Here are my bees,
brazen, blurs on paper,
besotted; buzzwords, dancing
their flawless, airy maps.

Been deep, my poet bees,
in the parts of flowers,
in daffodil, thistle, rose, even
the golden lotus; so glide,
gilded, glad, golden, thus –

wise – and know of us:
how your scent pervades
my shadowed, busy heart,
and honey is art.

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My youngster is selling hand made badges and stickers of their own artwork. Or trying to - only had one order so far. If you want to support an autistic teenager, please have a look at https://store.eva-jane.uk/ and see if anything tickles your fancy. It's mostly fan art, though there are some originals. (I especially like the bees!) Posts worldwide at cost. She also takes commissions if you like the art style.

Feel free to boost! 🙂
#selling #fanart #badges #stickers #bees

Edit:thx for 4 orders!

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109d

A Bee’s Dream.

#photography #EastCoastKin #TeamPixel #crimsonclover #phacelia #ireland #wildflowers #nature #summer #bees

A close-up shot of several conical, crimson clover flowers stretching upwards against a blurred bright green background. In the lower left, a single purple phacelia flower head stands out with its delicate lavender petals and long, thin stamens. The scene is bathed in bright, warm sunlight, casting soft shadows and highlighting the hairy texture of the stems. The overall mood is sunny and warm.

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Two Minnesota solar farms swapped the gravel under their panels for native prairie and wildflowers. Five years later the native bees had multiplied twentyfold and were crossing the fence to pollinate the soybeans next door

https://www.autonocion.com/us/solar-farm-wildflowers-bees/

#solarpower #nature #wildflowers #bees