Beck 🌸🐝
@beckarooobanzai.bsky.social
Surfing on a wave of light. ✨ bees wasps flies fungi slime mold mushrooms moss garden native plants pollinators flowers trees nature corvids birds bugs invertebrates amphibians wildlife ally pnw https://www.instagram.com/beckaroobanzai
They look so serious until you see them in their wet pantaloons. 🪶 Juvenile Cooper’s hawk.
I think hop cones look so cool at this stage with their wild & crazy hair. 🌱🍺
What would you do with them if your legs were this dexterous? 🐝
Please join us on August 2nd! Let's use art to imagine "thinking like a bee" in the Riley Park Community Garden in Vancouver, BC.
Cooper’s hawks nested in our big trees again this year and there’s been so much cool activity as the juveniles fledge and learn the ropes right in my backyard. 🪶🩶
Home again and seeking out all the cool things that make this little ecosystem so special. In this case, grass carrying wasps provisioning nests in the vacant mason bee tubes.
Saw a blade of dry grass poking out of the hole so of course I had to investigate. 👀 🔍🐝
Been away for what feels like years. Home just long enough to remember why I miss it so much. ✨
@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social I read this important news that bumblebees have OPINIONS www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Do bees have inner lives? Slow-motion video reveals bumblebee behaviour similar to ‘liking’ or ‘disliking’
Bees respond to tasty treats or plain water based on context, a study that may provide support for establishing insect sentience shows
theguardian.com
A mantis nymph looking before she leaps. (Stagmomantis limbata, SoCal) Found in my garden today on a native buckwheat (Eriogonum sp.). The various species of buckwheats are among my favorite native plants; they are often pretty, in and out of flower, and attract tons of insects. 🐙🌿📷 #BugSky
Chocolate tubes in their “pink tubes on sticks” phase. Stemonitis sp. #slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends
Leafcutter bee cutting a leaf and bringing it back to her nest :)
Male Gasteruption “carrot” wasp spotted on feverfew today. The ladies should be around any time now. 🌼🐝
I’m still amazed at how bizarre this developing slime mold looks. This will turn into chocolate tubes later. Stemonitis sp. #slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends #naturephotography
1st of 2026!! 🐝 I’ve been a little bummed because I hadn’t stumbled across any bumblebee nests this year… and then this happened. 🎉
Another day, another random piece of #trashure unearthed by the moles. Seems this may have once plugged up the spout of an old Eagle gas can. ⛽️
