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That's a wrap for #SeptemBee! This month I painted 28 species of bees, 1 isopod, and 1 landscape (not pictured), each relating to the daily #SciArtSeptember prompt (which I was able to stick to far more easily than anticipated!)
I hope you enjoyed learning about bees! I'm off to hibernate until next year :) -
That's a wrap for #SeptemBee! This month I painted 28 species of bees, 1 isopod, and 1 landscape (not pictured), each relating to the daily #SciArtSeptember prompt (which I was able to stick to far more easily than anticipated!)
I hope you enjoyed learning about bees! I'm off to hibernate until next year :) -
That's a wrap for #SeptemBee! This month I painted 28 species of bees, 1 isopod, and 1 landscape (not pictured), each relating to the daily #SciArtSeptember prompt (which I was able to stick to far more easily than anticipated!)
I hope you enjoyed learning about bees! I'm off to hibernate until next year :) -
That's a wrap for #SeptemBee! This month I painted 28 species of bees, 1 isopod, and 1 landscape (not pictured), each relating to the daily #SciArtSeptember prompt (which I was able to stick to far more easily than anticipated!)
I hope you enjoyed learning about bees! I'm off to hibernate until next year :) -
That's a wrap for #SeptemBee! This month I painted 28 species of bees, 1 isopod, and 1 landscape (not pictured), each relating to the daily #SciArtSeptember prompt (which I was able to stick to far more easily than anticipated!)
I hope you enjoyed learning about bees! I'm off to hibernate until next year :) -
Last day of #SeptemBee! For the #SciArtSeptember prompt of "dream" I've picked a bee famous for how it sleeps. Amegilla cingulata, the blue banded bee, is frequently pictured asleep, legs curled and clinging to a twig by its mandibles. Though it almost exclusively prefers blue flowers, it has become an important pollinator in Australia due to its method of buzz pollination.
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Last day of #SeptemBee! For the #SciArtSeptember prompt of "dream" I've picked a bee famous for how it sleeps. Amegilla cingulata, the blue banded bee, is frequently pictured asleep, legs curled and clinging to a twig by its mandibles. Though it almost exclusively prefers blue flowers, it has become an important pollinator in Australia due to its method of buzz pollination.
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Last day of #SeptemBee! For the #SciArtSeptember prompt of "dream" I've picked a bee famous for how it sleeps. Amegilla cingulata, the blue banded bee, is frequently pictured asleep, legs curled and clinging to a twig by its mandibles. Though it almost exclusively prefers blue flowers, it has become an important pollinator in Australia due to its method of buzz pollination.
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Last day of #SeptemBee! For the #SciArtSeptember prompt of "dream" I've picked a bee famous for how it sleeps. Amegilla cingulata, the blue banded bee, is frequently pictured asleep, legs curled and clinging to a twig by its mandibles. Though it almost exclusively prefers blue flowers, it has become an important pollinator in Australia due to its method of buzz pollination.
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Last day of #SeptemBee! For the #SciArtSeptember prompt of "dream" I've picked a bee famous for how it sleeps. Amegilla cingulata, the blue banded bee, is frequently pictured asleep, legs curled and clinging to a twig by its mandibles. Though it almost exclusively prefers blue flowers, it has become an important pollinator in Australia due to its method of buzz pollination.
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#SeptemBee 29th #SciArtSeptember prompt "foresight."
This is Bombus terrestris, the buff tailed bumblebee. As one of Europe's most common bees, it is also a frequent subject of behavior and intelligence studies, and it turns out bees can be pretty smart. They communicate by dancing, can learn and remember maps and faces, they show signs of PTSD if you harass them too much, and yes, even show signs of foresight.
B. terrestris, for example, continuously monitors its nest's honey and pollen reserves. If it gets too low, they will start biting and chewing the leaf buds off tomato plants. This damage induces the plant to start flowering and provide more nectar and pollen for the hive.
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#SeptemBee 29th #SciArtSeptember prompt "foresight."
This is Bombus terrestris, the buff tailed bumblebee. As one of Europe's most common bees, it is also a frequent subject of behavior and intelligence studies, and it turns out bees can be pretty smart. They communicate by dancing, can learn and remember maps and faces, they show signs of PTSD if you harass them too much, and yes, even show signs of foresight.
B. terrestris, for example, continuously monitors its nest's honey and pollen reserves. If it gets too low, they will start biting and chewing the leaf buds off tomato plants. This damage induces the plant to start flowering and provide more nectar and pollen for the hive.
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#SeptemBee 29th #SciArtSeptember prompt "foresight."
This is Bombus terrestris, the buff tailed bumblebee. As one of Europe's most common bees, it is also a frequent subject of behavior and intelligence studies, and it turns out bees can be pretty smart. They communicate by dancing, can learn and remember maps and faces, they show signs of PTSD if you harass them too much, and yes, even show signs of foresight.
B. terrestris, for example, continuously monitors its nest's honey and pollen reserves. If it gets too low, they will start biting and chewing the leaf buds off tomato plants. This damage induces the plant to start flowering and provide more nectar and pollen for the hive.
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#SeptemBee 29th #SciArtSeptember prompt "foresight."
This is Bombus terrestris, the buff tailed bumblebee. As one of Europe's most common bees, it is also a frequent subject of behavior and intelligence studies, and it turns out bees can be pretty smart. They communicate by dancing, can learn and remember maps and faces, they show signs of PTSD if you harass them too much, and yes, even show signs of foresight.
B. terrestris, for example, continuously monitors its nest's honey and pollen reserves. If it gets too low, they will start biting and chewing the leaf buds off tomato plants. This damage induces the plant to start flowering and provide more nectar and pollen for the hive.
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#SeptemBee 29th #SciArtSeptember prompt "foresight."
This is Bombus terrestris, the buff tailed bumblebee. As one of Europe's most common bees, it is also a frequent subject of behavior and intelligence studies, and it turns out bees can be pretty smart. They communicate by dancing, can learn and remember maps and faces, they show signs of PTSD if you harass them too much, and yes, even show signs of foresight.
B. terrestris, for example, continuously monitors its nest's honey and pollen reserves. If it gets too low, they will start biting and chewing the leaf buds off tomato plants. This damage induces the plant to start flowering and provide more nectar and pollen for the hive.
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#SeptemBee 28th! For the #SciArtSeptember prompt "harvest" I've chosen a squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, although there are lots of bees colloquially called "squash bees."
Do yourself a favor: look inside a big orange squash/pumpkin flower one morning and say hi to your new best friend. Squash bees have been quietly following humans and their crops around North America (and beyond) for thousands of years. They may spend their entire lives in a single field, pollinating only cucurbits. As solitary ground nesters, no-till methods are vital for preserving their habitat and their continuing pollination services.
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#SeptemBee 28th! For the #SciArtSeptember prompt "harvest" I've chosen a squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, although there are lots of bees colloquially called "squash bees."
Do yourself a favor: look inside a big orange squash/pumpkin flower one morning and say hi to your new best friend. Squash bees have been quietly following humans and their crops around North America (and beyond) for thousands of years. They may spend their entire lives in a single field, pollinating only cucurbits. As solitary ground nesters, no-till methods are vital for preserving their habitat and their continuing pollination services.
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#SeptemBee 28th! For the #SciArtSeptember prompt "harvest" I've chosen a squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, although there are lots of bees colloquially called "squash bees."
Do yourself a favor: look inside a big orange squash/pumpkin flower one morning and say hi to your new best friend. Squash bees have been quietly following humans and their crops around North America (and beyond) for thousands of years. They may spend their entire lives in a single field, pollinating only cucurbits. As solitary ground nesters, no-till methods are vital for preserving their habitat and their continuing pollination services.
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#SeptemBee 28th! For the #SciArtSeptember prompt "harvest" I've chosen a squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, although there are lots of bees colloquially called "squash bees."
Do yourself a favor: look inside a big orange squash/pumpkin flower one morning and say hi to your new best friend. Squash bees have been quietly following humans and their crops around North America (and beyond) for thousands of years. They may spend their entire lives in a single field, pollinating only cucurbits. As solitary ground nesters, no-till methods are vital for preserving their habitat and their continuing pollination services.
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#SeptemBee 28th! For the #SciArtSeptember prompt "harvest" I've chosen a squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, although there are lots of bees colloquially called "squash bees."
Do yourself a favor: look inside a big orange squash/pumpkin flower one morning and say hi to your new best friend. Squash bees have been quietly following humans and their crops around North America (and beyond) for thousands of years. They may spend their entire lives in a single field, pollinating only cucurbits. As solitary ground nesters, no-till methods are vital for preserving their habitat and their continuing pollination services.
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#SeptemBee 27th! The #SciArtSeptember theme is "bound" so I chose a geographically restricted species, Xylocopa darwini. These carpenter bees are the only bees native to the Galapagos Islands - up until relatively recently, they were the only bees there at all!
You get two today because I love the sexual dimorphism in the species. They look suspiciously like the valley carpenter bee (X. sonorina) that I painted for Valentine's Day earlier this year. Perhaps some lost queen got blown over the ocean a long long time ago and landed on an island full of tortoises.
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#SeptemBee 27th! The #SciArtSeptember theme is "bound" so I chose a geographically restricted species, Xylocopa darwini. These carpenter bees are the only bees native to the Galapagos Islands - up until relatively recently, they were the only bees there at all!
You get two today because I love the sexual dimorphism in the species. They look suspiciously like the valley carpenter bee (X. sonorina) that I painted for Valentine's Day earlier this year. Perhaps some lost queen got blown over the ocean a long long time ago and landed on an island full of tortoises.
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#SeptemBee 27th! The #SciArtSeptember theme is "bound" so I chose a geographically restricted species, Xylocopa darwini. These carpenter bees are the only bees native to the Galapagos Islands - up until relatively recently, they were the only bees there at all!
You get two today because I love the sexual dimorphism in the species. They look suspiciously like the valley carpenter bee (X. sonorina) that I painted for Valentine's Day earlier this year. Perhaps some lost queen got blown over the ocean a long long time ago and landed on an island full of tortoises.
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#SeptemBee 27th! The #SciArtSeptember theme is "bound" so I chose a geographically restricted species, Xylocopa darwini. These carpenter bees are the only bees native to the Galapagos Islands - up until relatively recently, they were the only bees there at all!
You get two today because I love the sexual dimorphism in the species. They look suspiciously like the valley carpenter bee (X. sonorina) that I painted for Valentine's Day earlier this year. Perhaps some lost queen got blown over the ocean a long long time ago and landed on an island full of tortoises.
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#SeptemBee 27th! The #SciArtSeptember theme is "bound" so I chose a geographically restricted species, Xylocopa darwini. These carpenter bees are the only bees native to the Galapagos Islands - up until relatively recently, they were the only bees there at all!
You get two today because I love the sexual dimorphism in the species. They look suspiciously like the valley carpenter bee (X. sonorina) that I painted for Valentine's Day earlier this year. Perhaps some lost queen got blown over the ocean a long long time ago and landed on an island full of tortoises.
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#SeptemBee 26th! For the #SciArtSeptember theme "foraging" I've chosen the alfalfa leafcutter bee, Megachile rotundata.
Alfalfa is one of the most important forage crops around the world. The flowers have a trap mechanism that is triggered when a bee lands on its keel petal. The flower whomps the bee on the head with its spring-loaded pistils, depositing pollen as it probes around for nectar. Honey bees don't like getting hit in the head and will chew through the petals to bypass the trap, but M. rotundata don't care at all!
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#SeptemBee 26th! For the #SciArtSeptember theme "foraging" I've chosen the alfalfa leafcutter bee, Megachile rotundata.
Alfalfa is one of the most important forage crops around the world. The flowers have a trap mechanism that is triggered when a bee lands on its keel petal. The flower whomps the bee on the head with its spring-loaded pistils, depositing pollen as it probes around for nectar. Honey bees don't like getting hit in the head and will chew through the petals to bypass the trap, but M. rotundata don't care at all!
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#SeptemBee 26th! For the #SciArtSeptember theme "foraging" I've chosen the alfalfa leafcutter bee, Megachile rotundata.
Alfalfa is one of the most important forage crops around the world. The flowers have a trap mechanism that is triggered when a bee lands on its keel petal. The flower whomps the bee on the head with its spring-loaded pistils, depositing pollen as it probes around for nectar. Honey bees don't like getting hit in the head and will chew through the petals to bypass the trap, but M. rotundata don't care at all!
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#SeptemBee 26th! For the #SciArtSeptember theme "foraging" I've chosen the alfalfa leafcutter bee, Megachile rotundata.
Alfalfa is one of the most important forage crops around the world. The flowers have a trap mechanism that is triggered when a bee lands on its keel petal. The flower whomps the bee on the head with its spring-loaded pistils, depositing pollen as it probes around for nectar. Honey bees don't like getting hit in the head and will chew through the petals to bypass the trap, but M. rotundata don't care at all!
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#SeptemBee 26th! For the #SciArtSeptember theme "foraging" I've chosen the alfalfa leafcutter bee, Megachile rotundata.
Alfalfa is one of the most important forage crops around the world. The flowers have a trap mechanism that is triggered when a bee lands on its keel petal. The flower whomps the bee on the head with its spring-loaded pistils, depositing pollen as it probes around for nectar. Honey bees don't like getting hit in the head and will chew through the petals to bypass the trap, but M. rotundata don't care at all!
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#SeptemBee the 25th! For the #SciArtSeptember theme of tireless I've chosen one of the few (known) nocturnal bees, Megalopta genalis. These Central American sweat bees have absolutely enormous eyes, which are specially adapted for the polarized light of dawn and dusk. Many of its favored flowers open at sunset.
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#SeptemBee the 25th! For the #SciArtSeptember theme of tireless I've chosen one of the few (known) nocturnal bees, Megalopta genalis. These Central American sweat bees have absolutely enormous eyes, which are specially adapted for the polarized light of dawn and dusk. Many of its favored flowers open at sunset.
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#SeptemBee the 25th! For the #SciArtSeptember theme of tireless I've chosen one of the few (known) nocturnal bees, Megalopta genalis. These Central American sweat bees have absolutely enormous eyes, which are specially adapted for the polarized light of dawn and dusk. Many of its favored flowers open at sunset.
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#SeptemBee the 25th! For the #SciArtSeptember theme of tireless I've chosen one of the few (known) nocturnal bees, Megalopta genalis. These Central American sweat bees have absolutely enormous eyes, which are specially adapted for the polarized light of dawn and dusk. Many of its favored flowers open at sunset.
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#SeptemBee the 25th! For the #SciArtSeptember theme of tireless I've chosen one of the few (known) nocturnal bees, Megalopta genalis. These Central American sweat bees have absolutely enormous eyes, which are specially adapted for the polarized light of dawn and dusk. Many of its favored flowers open at sunset.
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#SeptemBee 24th! For the #SciArtSeptember theme of "numbered" I've chosen the blue calamintha bee, Osmia calaminthae. These bees are very hard to find, having only been observed at 11 sites within a narrow range of sandy Florida scrub since they were first described in 2011. They are specialists of the calamintha plant for which they are named.
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#SeptemBee 24th! For the #SciArtSeptember theme of "numbered" I've chosen the blue calamintha bee, Osmia calaminthae. These bees are very hard to find, having only been observed at 11 sites within a narrow range of sandy Florida scrub since they were first described in 2011. They are specialists of the calamintha plant for which they are named.
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#SeptemBee 24th! For the #SciArtSeptember theme of "numbered" I've chosen the blue calamintha bee, Osmia calaminthae. These bees are very hard to find, having only been observed at 11 sites within a narrow range of sandy Florida scrub since they were first described in 2011. They are specialists of the calamintha plant for which they are named.
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#SeptemBee 24th! For the #SciArtSeptember theme of "numbered" I've chosen the blue calamintha bee, Osmia calaminthae. These bees are very hard to find, having only been observed at 11 sites within a narrow range of sandy Florida scrub since they were first described in 2011. They are specialists of the calamintha plant for which they are named.
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#SeptemBee 24th! For the #SciArtSeptember theme of "numbered" I've chosen the blue calamintha bee, Osmia calaminthae. These bees are very hard to find, having only been observed at 11 sites within a narrow range of sandy Florida scrub since they were first described in 2011. They are specialists of the calamintha plant for which they are named.
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#SeptemBee the 23rd! The #SciArtSeptember theme is "scouting" so I chose another eusocial honey bee, the red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea). When swarming in search of a new home, scout bees will dance to let their fellow hive mates know of a suitable location. Unlike western honey bees, however, this dwarf bee's dance includes tiny squeaking sounds! The more excited the chatter, the more likely the bees are to pick that scout's location.
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#SeptemBee the 23rd! The #SciArtSeptember theme is "scouting" so I chose another eusocial honey bee, the red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea). When swarming in search of a new home, scout bees will dance to let their fellow hive mates know of a suitable location. Unlike western honey bees, however, this dwarf bee's dance includes tiny squeaking sounds! The more excited the chatter, the more likely the bees are to pick that scout's location.
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#SeptemBee the 23rd! The #SciArtSeptember theme is "scouting" so I chose another eusocial honey bee, the red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea). When swarming in search of a new home, scout bees will dance to let their fellow hive mates know of a suitable location. Unlike western honey bees, however, this dwarf bee's dance includes tiny squeaking sounds! The more excited the chatter, the more likely the bees are to pick that scout's location.
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#SeptemBee the 23rd! The #SciArtSeptember theme is "scouting" so I chose another eusocial honey bee, the red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea). When swarming in search of a new home, scout bees will dance to let their fellow hive mates know of a suitable location. Unlike western honey bees, however, this dwarf bee's dance includes tiny squeaking sounds! The more excited the chatter, the more likely the bees are to pick that scout's location.
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#SeptemBee the 23rd! The #SciArtSeptember theme is "scouting" so I chose another eusocial honey bee, the red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea). When swarming in search of a new home, scout bees will dance to let their fellow hive mates know of a suitable location. Unlike western honey bees, however, this dwarf bee's dance includes tiny squeaking sounds! The more excited the chatter, the more likely the bees are to pick that scout's location.
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#SeptemBee 22 - Happy Autumn!
The #SciArtSeptember theme is "Fellowship" as in "of the Ring" and fun fact! Did you know that of the over 200 taxa named for Tolkien and his works - including dozens of moths, and six recently discovered wasps mostly named for hobbits in the genus "Shireplitis" - there's only one bee?
And this one's a fellowship destroyer - Austrosphecodes balrog, or as I like to call it, the Balrog bee.
Are its wings real? Are they metaphorical? We may never know, but we do know that these cuckoo bees are aggressive brood parasites, often attacking solitary bees before laying eggs in their nests. I can imagine a big hairy Gandalf bee at the entrance shouting "You Shall Not Pass!"
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#SeptemBee 22 - Happy Autumn!
The #SciArtSeptember theme is "Fellowship" as in "of the Ring" and fun fact! Did you know that of the over 200 taxa named for Tolkien and his works - including dozens of moths, and six recently discovered wasps mostly named for hobbits in the genus "Shireplitis" - there's only one bee?
And this one's a fellowship destroyer - Austrosphecodes balrog, or as I like to call it, the Balrog bee.
Are its wings real? Are they metaphorical? We may never know, but we do know that these cuckoo bees are aggressive brood parasites, often attacking solitary bees before laying eggs in their nests. I can imagine a big hairy Gandalf bee at the entrance shouting "You Shall Not Pass!"
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#SeptemBee 22 - Happy Autumn!
The #SciArtSeptember theme is "Fellowship" as in "of the Ring" and fun fact! Did you know that of the over 200 taxa named for Tolkien and his works - including dozens of moths, and six recently discovered wasps mostly named for hobbits in the genus "Shireplitis" - there's only one bee?
And this one's a fellowship destroyer - Austrosphecodes balrog, or as I like to call it, the Balrog bee.
Are its wings real? Are they metaphorical? We may never know, but we do know that these cuckoo bees are aggressive brood parasites, often attacking solitary bees before laying eggs in their nests. I can imagine a big hairy Gandalf bee at the entrance shouting "You Shall Not Pass!"
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#SeptemBee 22 - Happy Autumn!
The #SciArtSeptember theme is "Fellowship" as in "of the Ring" and fun fact! Did you know that of the over 200 taxa named for Tolkien and his works - including dozens of moths, and six recently discovered wasps mostly named for hobbits in the genus "Shireplitis" - there's only one bee?
And this one's a fellowship destroyer - Austrosphecodes balrog, or as I like to call it, the Balrog bee.
Are its wings real? Are they metaphorical? We may never know, but we do know that these cuckoo bees are aggressive brood parasites, often attacking solitary bees before laying eggs in their nests. I can imagine a big hairy Gandalf bee at the entrance shouting "You Shall Not Pass!"
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#SeptemBee 22 - Happy Autumn!
The #SciArtSeptember theme is "Fellowship" as in "of the Ring" and fun fact! Did you know that of the over 200 taxa named for Tolkien and his works - including dozens of moths, and six recently discovered wasps mostly named for hobbits in the genus "Shireplitis" - there's only one bee?
And this one's a fellowship destroyer - Austrosphecodes balrog, or as I like to call it, the Balrog bee.
Are its wings real? Are they metaphorical? We may never know, but we do know that these cuckoo bees are aggressive brood parasites, often attacking solitary bees before laying eggs in their nests. I can imagine a big hairy Gandalf bee at the entrance shouting "You Shall Not Pass!"