Two tailed spider in harder mode: you can see how cryptic they can be on a complex surface!
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Writer, artist, and advocate for native bees in British Columbia. Author of the revised edition of Victory Gardens for Bees: A DIY Guide for Saving the Bees.
Desde Canadá a Panamá hay más de 5000 especies de abejas clasificadas en 173 géneros. Se acaba de publicar la segunda edición de The Bee Genera of North and Central America y el pdf completo se puede descargar de este enlace del Smithsonian 🐝 scholarlypress.si.edu/publications... 🐝
My heart goes out to all those displaced by wildfires and affected by the smoke in the air. Bee well. #bees
Posting bee observations on iNaturalist means you are contributing to scientific research that can help conserve native bees. Plus, you are more likely to get multiple people looking at your observations and getting the best possible identification from your photos. #bees
Taking a little siesta in the garden. Hibiscus Turret Bee in Swamp Rose Mallow. #nativeplants #bees #insectthursday
Female and male Nearctic resin bees, Megachile subgenus Chelostomoides, prob. M exilis. Never saw these in my yard until planted blue vervain, Verbena hastata. #bees #nativeplants #macrophotography #bugsky
Leaf-cutter bees are busy in the garden today. Just saw one chase off a really BIG Nevada Bumble Bee 😂🐝
A big part of the late summer soundtrack around here is the American Goldfinch. They have an amazing repertoire of sounds #birds 🌿
thank u to our beloved Egyptology curator for asking me about nocturnal fauna of Egypt, so I could learn about the FAT SAND RAT www.reddit.com/r/AIDKE/comm...
From the AIDKE community on Reddit: Fat sand rat (Psammomys obesus)
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A sand tiger beetle that I found watching me carefully on a Lake Erie beach, near Buffalo, New York ... Tiger beetles are the fastest-running insects on earth, by far, and their vision is amazingly good.
California sister (Adelpha californica) nectaring on Yerba santa (Eriodictyon spp.) near Red Box Picnic Area on the Angeles Crest, San Gabriel Mountains 🌿 buff.ly/lOonAoq
Male Calliope hummingbird. #birds It's the smallest bird in the United States. It weighs about one-third as much as the smallest North American warblers and about the same as a ping pong ball!
Little Melissodes microsticta drying out before she starts work for the day. Ants were farming aphids on the elecampane, so of course I got covered in them! #rileyparkcommunitygarden #bees
I fought the parts of this agreement that go against the interests, the human rights and the clear will of the Ecuadorean people, bringing it to the International Trade Committee for study, meeting with the Ecuadorean ambassador and with Ecuadorean indigenous reps. Canada should be ashamed.
MiningWatch Canada@miningwatch.bsky.social · 2w ago⚠️ Canadian Organizations Condemn Signing of High-Risk Ecuador Free Trade Agreement" 🔊 | Press release: tinyurl.com/2kha5m58 The #EcuadorCanada Free Trade Agreement, signed today, grants sweeping and undemocratic protections to Canadian investors while deepening Ecuador’s human rights crisis.
It's raining today in Vancouver. Bees will be hunkering down for the time being. And when the sun returns, it will be back to beezness. #bees
Nine years ago today 🌿 Calochortus gunnisonii, our Gunnison's Mariposa Lily, blooming in Lower McCollough Gulch #nativeplants
Taste the Tiny Pollen Rainbow Green & Pink Yellow & White
Random Friday caterpillar post. This dude is about the size of my pinky finger and I think it’s an Intermediate Hooded Owlet moth in the making. What a name! #invertebrates
Just love these little Green-eyed flower bees.... this time, a female flying around the Verbena flowers that are doing well despite the drought! 🐝🌿💚 Happy #FlyDay everyone. Wishing you all a good weekend ahead. 🕊️ #Scape #Photography #Bees #Invert #Insects #FlowersOnFriday #Nature #UKWildlife #ECK
I visited my local bison herd this morning. It is good to remind ourselves that bison are not strictly western animals. They were the dominant herbivore of the Bluegrass and created our woodland pasture ecosystem. More at Our Trees.
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I took advantage of today’s fine weather to visit my local bison. You may think of bison as western animals, but they were first seen by European settlers in what is now downtown Washington DC and onc...
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