#hymenoptera — Public Fediverse posts

How to handle yellowjacket nests in garden beds https://www.allforgardening.com/1922178/how-to-handle-yellowjacket-nests-in-garden-beds/ #agricultural #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalProduct #AnimalProtection #apocrita #BeeColony #BeeHouse #beekeeping #bees #black #breeding #BreedingGround #BreedingSeason #Builds #BunchOf #caring #Colony #Cultivate #Cultivation #cutout #deserted #ecofriendly #EnvironmentProtection #exemptable #ExteriorView #garden #gardening #group #Hobby #honeycomb #hymenoptera #Many #ManyAnimals #nest #NestBuilding #NestingAid #NestingSite

Okay, I put off watching the latest ZeFrank video because it seemed to be about honeybees, which are boring (sorry bee people), but it's actually an amazing journey through geometry, evo-devo, the other, cooler Hymenoptera such as wasps, solitary bees, and ants, the evolution of eusociality, "stigmergy" (a new one for me), and more!

https://youtu.be/_hw26yREe9w

#bugstodon #entomology #insects #bees #wasps #ants #EvolutionaryBiology #EvoBio #EvoDevo #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Formicidae

Okay, I put off watching the latest ZeFrank video because it seemed to be about honeybees, which are boring (sorry bee people), but it's actually an amazing journey through geometry, evo-devo, the other, cooler Hymenoptera such as wasps, solitary bees, and ants, the evolution of eusociality, "stigmergy" (a new one for me), and more!

https://youtu.be/_hw26yREe9w

#bugstodon #entomology #insects #bees #wasps #ants #EvolutionaryBiology #EvoBio #EvoDevo #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Formicidae

Okay, I put off watching the latest ZeFrank video because it seemed to be about honeybees, which are boring (sorry bee people), but it's actually an amazing journey through geometry, evo-devo, the other, cooler Hymenoptera such as wasps, solitary bees, and ants, the evolution of eusociality, "stigmergy" (a new one for me), and more!

https://youtu.be/_hw26yREe9w

#bugstodon #entomology #insects #bees #wasps #ants #EvolutionaryBiology #EvoBio #EvoDevo #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Formicidae

Okay, I put off watching the latest ZeFrank video because it seemed to be about honeybees, which are boring (sorry bee people), but it's actually an amazing journey through geometry, evo-devo, the other, cooler Hymenoptera such as wasps, solitary bees, and ants, the evolution of eusociality, "stigmergy" (a new one for me), and more!

https://youtu.be/_hw26yREe9w

#bugstodon #entomology #insects #bees #wasps #ants #EvolutionaryBiology #EvoBio #EvoDevo #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Formicidae

Peanut Butter (that's what I've decided to call the _Platycryptus undatus_ who lives down the street) nabbed herself a female ant alate! I also saw more female alates in other spiders' webs, and a few that had gotten into the grocery store somehow.

Northeastern North Americans/ant people in general: anyone know which ants' nuptial flight time it is? Those yellow _Lasius_ maybe? The males (in my window orbweaver's web) seem yellow.

#DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #ants #Araneae #Salticidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae

#DailySpiderPic: "Well, this is awkward…" An ant-mimic jumping spider (_Synageles_) crosses paths with a _Prenolepis imparis_ ant. Its disguise is meant to put off potential predators that won't mess with ants—but the ants themselves rely more on chemical cues and aren't fooled. I saw a couple of _Synageles_ on this planter and they both carefully avoided the ants.

#SpidersOfMastodon #JumpingSpiders #spiders #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #Araneae #Salticidae #ants #Hymenoptera #Formicidae

The burrowing bees are so cute. They'll sit right at the entrance of their holes and, when you pass by, immediately retreat. However if you wait patiently they'll come back up again.

I thought I also saw immense bees buzzing around, but they turned out to be furry scarab beetles of some kind!

#InverteFest #bugstodon #insects #bees #beetles #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Colletidae? #Coleoptera #Scarabaeidae

Ein neuer Duft für die #Bienenkönigin.
“Unsere Studie stellt diese Annahme in Frage und zeigt ein viel komplexeres Bild der #Evolution.”

Bei #Honigbienen sorgt die Königin durch einen speziellen Duftstoff dafür, dass ihre #Arbeiterinnen unfruchtbar bleiben und ihr dienen. Ein solches Königinnenpheromon haben Forscher nun erstmals auch bei einer #Bienenart mit weit einfacherem Staat nachgewiesen – der #Furchenbiene. Das Überraschende jedoch: Der Duftstoff der Königin besteht bei dieser #Bienenart aus einer chemisch völlig anderen Substanz als bei den #Honigbienen
(Pheromon (E)-9-Oxodec-2-ensäure („Königinnensubstanz“)) . Das deutet darauf hin, dass die #Evolution dieser Pheromone komplexer ablief als bisher gedacht.

https://www.wissenschaft.de/erde-umwelt/ein-neuer-duft-fuer-die-bienenkoenigin/

Macrocyclic Lactones Act as a Queen #Pheromone in a Primitively Eusocial Sweat #Bee https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30026-9
#Bienen #hymenoptera #Wildbienen #Insekten #Natur #biodiversität #artenschutz #Artenvielfalt #Biene #Bienenliebe

The Autumn Joy sedum (_Hylotelephium telephium_) at Christie Pits is positively mobbed by all kind of bees! Most just feeding, but _Anthidium_ wool carder bees were also mating.

#bugstodon #insects #bees • #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Megachilidae

Early Bumblebee Bombus pratorum Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/3.2 1/ 320 iso: 400 Srbsko, Czech Republic 5/23/2010 #Hymenoptera #Apidae #Bombus #bees #Bumblebees #pollinators #insects #invertebrats #macro #grasslands #Wildbees

A sharptail bee (Coelioxys sp.). #Entomology #Insect #Photography #InsectPhotography #bee #Hymenoptera #megachilidae

wow ppl liked this, ok have a bonus picture. This one is grooming itself with its leg.

#insects #bees #Hymenoptera #Megachilidae #macro

one of today's highlights was finding a patch of lamb's ear full of rather docile wool carder bees who let me get close enough for photos!

these bees get their name from their behaviour of scraping fluff for their nests from fuzzy plants like this. they are very cute.

#insects #bees #Hymenoptera #Megachilidae #macro

I think I improved upon this photo a bit. #Entomology #Photography #InsectPhotography #Bees #Hymenoptera #Megachilidae

A red bee, Rhodanthidium sticticum – a megachilid – resting on a pebble: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/155170123

A male and female were tumbling about, putting out quite the mating show. See this cluster of 4 observations https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=41.235501969870946&nelng=1.4741093236519154&on=2023-04-16&place_id=any&subview=map&swlat=40.950367608936276&swlng=1.1081272679878529&taxon_id=467410&user_id=albertcardona&verifiable=any

#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #nativebees #Megachilidae #entomology

Had three of these beauties emerge yesterday. Blue orchard bee (Osmia lignaria). Female. #Osmia #bee #insect #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #MasonBee #Megachilidae #Hymenoptera #entomology #nature #pollinator #MacroPhotography