#nativepollinators — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nativepollinators, aggregated by home.social.
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#SeedSavingExchange - Learn how to create a garden that will attract #NativePollinators with #SeedSaving in mind.
Excerpt:
"Serve Up an Enticing Menu Year-Round
Flowering plants supply #pollinators like #bees and #butterflies with essential pollen and nectar. #PollinatorFriendly plants also provide a safe shelter for our hard-working insect friends. The most important aspect of any pollinator garden is diversity. Because pollinators are active from April to October, make sure you have a colorful array of continuously blooming flowers from early spring through fall and keep your plants free of pesticides, fungicides, and insecticides.
Plants should be selected based on the space they will occupy. Specifically, consider your space’s soil type, sun exposure, and moisture levels.
You may also choose to select plant species to support specific pollinators.
- To help monarch butterflies, include #milkweeds and high-quality nectar plants like blazingstars.
- To support #Bumblebees, include plants like #WildBergamot, #hyssop, and #goldenrod.
- #Sunflowers offer not only a supportive perch but also seeds to help attract #hummingbirds and other feathered friends to your garden. #Honeysuckles are also a great way to attract hummingbirds.To ensure that the pollinators will have something to forage from spring through fall, select various natives that flower at different times throughout the growing season. Choosing plants with a variety of flower colors and shapes will also help attract an assortment of insects of a variety of sizes and foraging habits. Larger clusters of a plant species are better for attracting pollinators than several smaller clusters in and around the garden space."
Learn more:
https://seedsavers.org/learn/pollinators/#SolarPunkSunday #Gardening #GardeningForPollinators #SeedCollection #NativePlants
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#SeedSavingExchange - Learn how to create a garden that will attract #NativePollinators with #SeedSaving in mind.
Excerpt:
"Serve Up an Enticing Menu Year-Round
Flowering plants supply #pollinators like #bees and #butterflies with essential pollen and nectar. #PollinatorFriendly plants also provide a safe shelter for our hard-working insect friends. The most important aspect of any pollinator garden is diversity. Because pollinators are active from April to October, make sure you have a colorful array of continuously blooming flowers from early spring through fall and keep your plants free of pesticides, fungicides, and insecticides.
Plants should be selected based on the space they will occupy. Specifically, consider your space’s soil type, sun exposure, and moisture levels.
You may also choose to select plant species to support specific pollinators.
- To help monarch butterflies, include #milkweeds and high-quality nectar plants like blazingstars.
- To support #Bumblebees, include plants like #WildBergamot, #hyssop, and #goldenrod.
- #Sunflowers offer not only a supportive perch but also seeds to help attract #hummingbirds and other feathered friends to your garden. #Honeysuckles are also a great way to attract hummingbirds.To ensure that the pollinators will have something to forage from spring through fall, select various natives that flower at different times throughout the growing season. Choosing plants with a variety of flower colors and shapes will also help attract an assortment of insects of a variety of sizes and foraging habits. Larger clusters of a plant species are better for attracting pollinators than several smaller clusters in and around the garden space."
Learn more:
https://seedsavers.org/learn/pollinators/#SolarPunkSunday #Gardening #GardeningForPollinators #SeedCollection #NativePlants
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Gardener puzzled after spotting tiny bee building nest like a ‘glass blown vase’ https://www.allforgardening.com/1869416/gardener-puzzled-after-spotting-tiny-bee-building-nest-like-a-glass-blown-vase-2/ #BeesNest #BlownGlass #garden #gardener #gardening #Gastonia #NativePollinators #NorthCarolina #SolitaryBee #WildlifeIdentification
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Gardener puzzled after spotting tiny bee building nest like a ‘glass blown vase’ https://www.allforgardening.com/1869416/gardener-puzzled-after-spotting-tiny-bee-building-nest-like-a-glass-blown-vase-2/ #BeesNest #BlownGlass #garden #gardener #gardening #Gastonia #NativePollinators #NorthCarolina #SolitaryBee #WildlifeIdentification
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Papilio rutulus, the western tiger swallowtail, on the verbena.
#butterfly #pollinators #PapilioRutulus #insects #NativePollinators #WesternTigerSwallowtail #butterflies #July10 #verbena #PurpleFlowers
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Papilio rutulus, the western tiger swallowtail, on the verbena.
#butterfly #pollinators #PapilioRutulus #insects #NativePollinators #WesternTigerSwallowtail #butterflies #July10 #verbena #PurpleFlowers
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All you need to do is find some shade on hot day.
#BumbleBee #pollinators #bee #rudbeckiaHirta #NativePollinators #July6 #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #flowers
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All you need to do is find some shade on hot day.
#BumbleBee #pollinators #bee #rudbeckiaHirta #NativePollinators #July6 #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #flowers
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A big bumble bee on the monarda.
Bombus nevadensis and Monarda fistulosa.
#BombusNevadensis #MonardaFistulosa #NativePollinators #pollinators #BumbleBee #bee #bees #NativeBees #PinkFlowers #flowers #BeeBalm
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A big bumble bee on the monarda.
Bombus nevadensis and Monarda fistulosa.
#BombusNevadensis #MonardaFistulosa #NativePollinators #pollinators #BumbleBee #bee #bees #NativeBees #PinkFlowers #flowers #BeeBalm
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Sometimes you have to dive in head first and feet up.
#NativePollinators #bees #insects #pollinators #PurpleConeflower #EchinaceaPurpurea
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Sometimes you have to dive in head first and feet up.
#NativePollinators #bees #insects #pollinators #PurpleConeflower #EchinaceaPurpurea
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A small sweat bee on the bok choy.
#bees #SweatBee #NativePollinators #pollinators #bee #FlowerWithBee #YellowFlowers
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A small sweat bee on the bok choy.
#bees #SweatBee #NativePollinators #pollinators #bee #FlowerWithBee #YellowFlowers
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Bumble bees on some radish flowers.
#bees #BumbleBee #pollinators #NativePollinators #June11 #bombus
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Bumble bees on some radish flowers.
#bees #BumbleBee #pollinators #NativePollinators #June11 #bombus
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A couple more of those little black pollinators and a honeybee doing a flyby.
#FlowerWithBee #bees #pollinators #NativePollinators #blackberries #HimalayanBlackberries #bee #insect #BloomScrollingWithBee
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A couple more of those little black pollinators and a honeybee doing a flyby.
#FlowerWithBee #bees #pollinators #NativePollinators #blackberries #HimalayanBlackberries #bee #insect #BloomScrollingWithBee
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There's a bit of a waiting line at the blackberry blossoms.
#FlowerWithBee #bees #pollinators #NativePollinators #blackberries #HimalayanBlackberries #bee #insect
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There's a bit of a waiting line at the blackberry blossoms.
#FlowerWithBee #bees #pollinators #NativePollinators #blackberries #HimalayanBlackberries #bee #insect
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Some kind of little bee I don't feel like looking up. ;) It's on a bearded iris petal.
#bees #NativePollinators #pollinators #bee #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #BeardedIris #NotSpicy
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Some kind of little bee I don't feel like looking up. ;) It's on a bearded iris petal.
#bees #NativePollinators #pollinators #bee #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #BeardedIris #NotSpicy
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[PDF] How To Construct a Study, All Wood #MasonBee House
by Don Harper
"The construction method described below is based on a presentation made by Lawrence County Master Gardener Dave Hughes in 2007. The construction process can obviously be modified, depending on the availability of power
tools and the preference for using one piece of 4x6 wood instead of two pieces of 2x6. Construction, once you are
familiar with the process, requires about a day. Waiting for glue to dry is the only part of the process that really slows
down construction."Given the diminution of populations of honeybees due to colony collapse disorder, it is hoped that everyone with a
garden will make at least one of these houses available for mason bees in which to lay eggs. This will lead to the next generation of bees, and over time increase the population of these #NativePollinators."Learn more:
https://mendotrails.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/bee-house-plans.pdf#SolarPunkSunday #DIYBeeHouses #Pollinators #BeeNesting #BeeHouses #BeeHousePlans
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[PDF] How To Construct a Study, All Wood #MasonBee House
by Don Harper
"The construction method described below is based on a presentation made by Lawrence County Master Gardener Dave Hughes in 2007. The construction process can obviously be modified, depending on the availability of power
tools and the preference for using one piece of 4x6 wood instead of two pieces of 2x6. Construction, once you are
familiar with the process, requires about a day. Waiting for glue to dry is the only part of the process that really slows
down construction."Given the diminution of populations of honeybees due to colony collapse disorder, it is hoped that everyone with a
garden will make at least one of these houses available for mason bees in which to lay eggs. This will lead to the next generation of bees, and over time increase the population of these #NativePollinators."Learn more:
https://mendotrails.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/bee-house-plans.pdf#SolarPunkSunday #DIYBeeHouses #Pollinators #BeeNesting #BeeHouses #BeeHousePlans
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Maybe... Bombus vosnesenskii Vosnesensky bumble bee... crawling and flying around the crocuses.
#bee #BumbleBee #bombus #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #BombusVosnesenskii #NativeBees #NativePollinators #pollinators #ellipsis
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Maybe... Bombus vosnesenskii Vosnesensky bumble bee... crawling and flying around the crocuses.
#bee #BumbleBee #bombus #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #BombusVosnesenskii #NativeBees #NativePollinators #pollinators #ellipsis
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By Heather McCargo, Photos by Jean English, Winter 2014-2015
"#NativePlant corridors attract #pollinators and #wildlife to your farm by stretching across your property to connect your piece of #NativeHabitat to nearby #meadows, #wetlands or #woodlands. This creates a much larger area for #NativePollinators to #forage, raise young and migrate. Corridors may run along a road, between fields, in a #swale or on the edge of a #forest, connecting habitats off the property and returning native plants to the parts of the farm not suitable for traditional crops.
This article describes two approaches to creating native habitat corridors: changing #mowing habits to favor native species, and planting woody and herbaceous combinations to increase native plant diversity on the farm.
Populations of all native species are in decline across the state. Our human footprint is taking its toll on wild creatures, including pollinators such as #bees and #butterflies that are so important on the farm for crop pollination. Native plant species each share an evolutionary history with indigenous insects, birds, reptiles, mammals, bacteria and fungi. When native plants are gone, many of these creatures go too, leading to a collapse of ecosystem function. Farmers benefit from the services provided by a healthy ecosystem, such as groundwater recharge; clean surface streams and ponds; pollination; a diversity of birds, spiders and amphibians to eat many insects including crop pests; and beneficial soil fungi and bacteria. Fortunately, when native plants are reintroduced into a landscape, many of these other creatures return.
As farmers and landowners, we can bring native plants, and the attendant diversity, back into the Maine landscape in a way that works with a farmer’s busy schedule. Many native plants thrive in dry, wet and shady areas that are poor sites for traditional farm crops."
Learn more:
https://www.mofga.org/resources/pollinators/plant-corridors/#SolarPunkSunday #GardeningForPollinators #NativePlantCorridors #Gardening #Farming #Homesteading #Nature #NatureConservation #NatureRestoration #Maine
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By Heather McCargo, Photos by Jean English, Winter 2014-2015
"#NativePlant corridors attract #pollinators and #wildlife to your farm by stretching across your property to connect your piece of #NativeHabitat to nearby #meadows, #wetlands or #woodlands. This creates a much larger area for #NativePollinators to #forage, raise young and migrate. Corridors may run along a road, between fields, in a #swale or on the edge of a #forest, connecting habitats off the property and returning native plants to the parts of the farm not suitable for traditional crops.
This article describes two approaches to creating native habitat corridors: changing #mowing habits to favor native species, and planting woody and herbaceous combinations to increase native plant diversity on the farm.
Populations of all native species are in decline across the state. Our human footprint is taking its toll on wild creatures, including pollinators such as #bees and #butterflies that are so important on the farm for crop pollination. Native plant species each share an evolutionary history with indigenous insects, birds, reptiles, mammals, bacteria and fungi. When native plants are gone, many of these creatures go too, leading to a collapse of ecosystem function. Farmers benefit from the services provided by a healthy ecosystem, such as groundwater recharge; clean surface streams and ponds; pollination; a diversity of birds, spiders and amphibians to eat many insects including crop pests; and beneficial soil fungi and bacteria. Fortunately, when native plants are reintroduced into a landscape, many of these other creatures return.
As farmers and landowners, we can bring native plants, and the attendant diversity, back into the Maine landscape in a way that works with a farmer’s busy schedule. Many native plants thrive in dry, wet and shady areas that are poor sites for traditional farm crops."
Learn more:
https://www.mofga.org/resources/pollinators/plant-corridors/#SolarPunkSunday #GardeningForPollinators #NativePlantCorridors #Gardening #Farming #Homesteading #Nature #NatureConservation #NatureRestoration #Maine
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Bumblebee on the first goldenrod flowers.
#bumblebee #bee #pollinators #FlowerWithBee #nativepollinators #bombus #BloomScrollingWithBee #bees
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Bumblebee on the first goldenrod flowers.
#bumblebee #bee #pollinators #FlowerWithBee #nativepollinators #bombus #BloomScrollingWithBee #bees
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Bombus on the tall sunflower. I see a lot of pollen coming off of it too with all the yellow specks on the leaf below it.
#pollinators #FlowerWithBee #bombus #bee #bumblebee #YellowFlowers #BloomScrollingWithBee #NativePollinators
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Bombus on the tall sunflower. I see a lot of pollen coming off of it too with all the yellow specks on the leaf below it.
#pollinators #FlowerWithBee #bombus #bee #bumblebee #YellowFlowers #BloomScrollingWithBee #NativePollinators
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One of the neat things about heightening my focus towards life around me, even the smallest of insects, is that when I pause to observe one thing, my stillness often invites others to move into frame.
In this case a sutured longhorn beetle caught my attention and then a ligated furrow bee stopped by.
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One of the neat things about heightening my focus towards life around me, even the smallest of insects, is that when I pause to observe one thing, my stillness often invites others to move into frame.
In this case a sutured longhorn beetle caught my attention and then a ligated furrow bee stopped by.
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The bees love the bee balm, Monarda fistulosa.
#pollinators #MonardaFistulosa #BeeBalm #PollinatorPlants #NativePollinators #bees #insects #BloomScrollingWithBee #FlowerWithBee #BeeMovie #BeeVideo #PinkFlowers #PurpleFlowers #monarda #flowers #July16
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The bees love the bee balm, Monarda fistulosa.
#pollinators #MonardaFistulosa #BeeBalm #PollinatorPlants #NativePollinators #bees #insects #BloomScrollingWithBee #FlowerWithBee #BeeMovie #BeeVideo #PinkFlowers #PurpleFlowers #monarda #flowers #July16
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Probably Bombus vagans on the Echinacea purpurea.
#BumbleBee #HalfBlackBumblebee #BombusVagans #bee #pollinators #NativePollinators #insects #PinkFlowers #PollinatorPlants #July16 #BeeMovie #EchinaceaPurpurea #PurpleConeflower #bees
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Probably Bombus vagans on the Echinacea purpurea.
#BumbleBee #HalfBlackBumblebee #BombusVagans #bee #pollinators #NativePollinators #insects #PinkFlowers #PollinatorPlants #July16 #BeeMovie #EchinaceaPurpurea #PurpleConeflower #bees
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A bumblebee on a purple coneflower.
#bombus #bumblebee #FlowerWithBee #pollinators #NativePollinators #BloomScrollingWithBee #PurpleFlowers #flowers ##bees #bee #insect #July16
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A bumblebee on a purple coneflower.
#bombus #bumblebee #FlowerWithBee #pollinators #NativePollinators #BloomScrollingWithBee #PurpleFlowers #flowers ##bees #bee #insect #July16
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Some kind of drone fly I'd guess, taking a break from the wind.
#NativePollinators #insects #DroneFly #hoverfly #pollinators #bees #NotaBee
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Some kind of drone fly I'd guess, taking a break from the wind.
#NativePollinators #insects #DroneFly #hoverfly #pollinators #bees #NotaBee
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Bees, basil...
battlestar galactica
#bees #basil #gardening #GrowYourOwn #flowers #pollinators #video #July12 #garden #bee #honeybee #NativePollinators
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Bees, basil...
battlestar galactica
#bees #basil #gardening #GrowYourOwn #flowers #pollinators #video #July12 #garden #bee #honeybee #NativePollinators
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I was trying to get a photo of the little bees after I took photos of this big bumble bee but wasn't successful but I see I got a good picture of one with the bumblebee. I think it's a Ligated Furrow Bee minus it's usual coating of pollen but it has a little bit stuck to it. The big ones is a Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis I think.
#pollinators #bees #FurrowBee #BumbleBee #NativePollinators #bee #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #insects #July7 #PinkFlowers #BeeBalm #bombus
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I was trying to get a photo of the little bees after I took photos of this big bumble bee but wasn't successful but I see I got a good picture of one with the bumblebee. I think it's a Ligated Furrow Bee minus it's usual coating of pollen but it has a little bit stuck to it. The big ones is a Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis I think.
#pollinators #bees #FurrowBee #BumbleBee #NativePollinators #bee #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #insects #July7 #PinkFlowers #BeeBalm #bombus
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The bee balm was busy with pollinators today, here's Bombus huntii.
#pollinators #Bombus #BumbleBee #BombusHuntii #bees #bee #NativePollinators #July6 #PinkFlowers #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #BumbleBees #insects
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The bee balm was busy with pollinators today, here's Bombus huntii.
#pollinators #Bombus #BumbleBee #BombusHuntii #bees #bee #NativePollinators #July6 #PinkFlowers #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #BumbleBees #insects
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The 4th of July is fluttering by.
#butterfly #flowers #petunias #BloomScrolling #FlowersOfMastodon #NativePollinators #insects #nature #SwallowtailButterfly #Lepidoptera #PapilioMachaonOregonius #wildlife #pollinators #PinkFlowers
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The 4th of July is fluttering by.
#butterfly #flowers #petunias #BloomScrolling #FlowersOfMastodon #NativePollinators #insects #nature #SwallowtailButterfly #Lepidoptera #PapilioMachaonOregonius #wildlife #pollinators #PinkFlowers
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A bumble bee on the Bergamot bee balm, and a few other pollinators too.
#pollinators #PollinatorPlants #BumbleBee #bombus #bees #NativePollinators #BergamotBeeBalm #MonardaFistulosa #bee #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #PinkFlowers
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A bumble bee on the Bergamot bee balm, and a few other pollinators too.
#pollinators #PollinatorPlants #BumbleBee #bombus #bees #NativePollinators #BergamotBeeBalm #MonardaFistulosa #bee #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #PinkFlowers
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Bombus vosnesenskii and Bombus melanopygus on the bergamot bee balm today.
#bees #bombus #pollinators #PollinatorPlants #BumbleBee #NativePollinators #BombusMelanopygus #BombusVosnesenskii #BeeBalm #BergamotBeeBalm #bee #insects
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Bombus vosnesenskii and Bombus melanopygus on the bergamot bee balm today.
#bees #bombus #pollinators #PollinatorPlants #BumbleBee #NativePollinators #BombusMelanopygus #BombusVosnesenskii #BeeBalm #BergamotBeeBalm #bee #insects
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Saw some mason bees today on the catnip and lavender. They don't pose for the camera.
#NativePollinators #MasonBee #bees #insects #pollinators #catnip #OsmiaLignariaPropinqua #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee
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Saw some mason bees today on the catnip and lavender. They don't pose for the camera.
#NativePollinators #MasonBee #bees #insects #pollinators #catnip #OsmiaLignariaPropinqua #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee
