OliverUv
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TinDrum
@oscarjiminy@aus.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

One little piece of news like this a day'd probly see me survive this darkness "a cost-effective and sustainable solution to help tackle the devastating decline in honeybees"

"Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers provided bees with a nutritionally complete diet that boosted reproduction up to 15-fold."

#bees #climatechange #insects

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250822073807.htm
TinDrum
@oscarjiminy@aus.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

One little piece of news like this a day'd probly see me survive this darkness "a cost-effective and sustainable solution to help tackle the devastating decline in honeybees"

"Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers provided bees with a nutritionally complete diet that boosted reproduction up to 15-fold."

#bees #climatechange #insects

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250822073807.htm
jakalopes
@jakalopes@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

I came across this awesome website with (mostly) free to use silhouette images of different organisms - great for scientific publications and presentations! I really appreciate people making/uploading these images for others to use - will probably be using these on graphs in the future. The bee species available are a bit lacking, though.
https://www.phylopic.org/

#science #biology #entomology #bees #research #academia#ScienceResources
jakalopes
@jakalopes@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

I came across this awesome website with (mostly) free to use silhouette images of different organisms - great for scientific publications and presentations! I really appreciate people making/uploading these images for others to use - will probably be using these on graphs in the future. The bee species available are a bit lacking, though.
https://www.phylopic.org/

#science #biology #entomology #bees #research #academia#ScienceResources
SaltPhoenix
@saltphoenix@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

WE'VE BEEN FREELY CHOSEN! This hive sat empty for just over a year, since the last ones absconded. I found yesterday that some other wild #bees have moved in. 🥰🐝🍯 This is such good news! By far the easiest capture to date. 😅 #beekeeping

A top bar bee hive, the entrance busy with many bees both coming and going.
A top bar bee hive, the entrance busy with many bees both coming and going.
SaltPhoenix
@saltphoenix@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp last year

Feral bee swarm update: Kid installed the bees, but either they didn't get dumped hard enough, or they didn't like it and eventually absconded. 😭 I didn't lock them in bc I didn't want them to stay if something was wrong with the hive, I'd rather them leave and survive. We still have them coming and getting sugar syrup/bee food that I put in, but the swarm left. ☹️ Maybe next time. Fun adventure while it lasted. Now we have somewhere to put them immediately, if we ever get another chance. 😅
SaltPhoenix
@saltphoenix@kolektiva.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

WE'VE BEEN FREELY CHOSEN! This hive sat empty for just over a year, since the last ones absconded. I found yesterday that some other wild #bees have moved in. 🥰🐝🍯 This is such good news! By far the easiest capture to date. 😅 #beekeeping

A top bar bee hive, the entrance busy with many bees both coming and going.
A top bar bee hive, the entrance busy with many bees both coming and going.
der.hans
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🦅 🪿RKeller Photography🏳️‍🌈
@Rihilism@toot.community  ·  activity timestamp last month

Snug as a bug in a rose mallow bud!

Bit cold this July morning. Found this (likely) 2-spotted longhorn bee a bit sleepy/groggy in the rose mallow where it decided to bed down.

How 'bout that black and pink though?!

#StormHour#PhotoHour #bees #insects#MacroPhotography#Photography#AltText

Extreme closeup photograph of a (likely) two-spotted longhorn bee resting just within the central petals of a partially opened rose mallow bud (Hibiscus laevis). The bee has a few patches of fine granules of pink-white rose mallow pollen on its leg and head. This bee species has similar features to honeybees with a black abdomen, dark thorax, and head covered in fine black hairs, two long antennae, three simple black eyes on the forehead, and two black and gray compound eyes facing forward, six segmented legs, and transparent wings with dark veining. The upper segments of the bee's legs are covered in fine black hairs but the lower segments on the rear legs are covered in fine pale-yellow hairs.
Extreme closeup photograph of a (likely) two-spotted longhorn bee resting just within the central petals of a partially opened rose mallow bud (Hibiscus laevis). The bee has a few patches of fine granules of pink-white rose mallow pollen on its leg and head. This bee species has similar features to honeybees with a black abdomen, dark thorax, and head covered in fine black hairs, two long antennae, three simple black eyes on the forehead, and two black and gray compound eyes facing forward, six segmented legs, and transparent wings with dark veining. The upper segments of the bee's legs are covered in fine black hairs but the lower segments on the rear legs are covered in fine pale-yellow hairs.
Extreme closeup photograph of a (likely) two-spotted longhorn bee resting just within the central petals of a partially opened rose mallow bud (Hibiscus laevis). The bee has a few patches of fine granules of pink-white rose mallow pollen on its leg and head. This bee species has similar features to honeybees with a black abdomen, dark thorax, and head covered in fine black hairs, two long antennae, three simple black eyes on the forehead, and two black and gray compound eyes facing forward, six segmented legs, and transparent wings with dark veining. The upper segments of the bee's legs are covered in fine black hairs but the lower segments on the rear legs are covered in fine pale-yellow hairs.
🦅 🪿RKeller Photography🏳️‍🌈
@Rihilism@toot.community  ·  activity timestamp last month

Snug as a bug in a rose mallow bud!

Bit cold this July morning. Found this (likely) 2-spotted longhorn bee a bit sleepy/groggy in the rose mallow where it decided to bed down.

How 'bout that black and pink though?!

#StormHour#PhotoHour #bees #insects#MacroPhotography#Photography#AltText

Extreme closeup photograph of a (likely) two-spotted longhorn bee resting just within the central petals of a partially opened rose mallow bud (Hibiscus laevis). The bee has a few patches of fine granules of pink-white rose mallow pollen on its leg and head. This bee species has similar features to honeybees with a black abdomen, dark thorax, and head covered in fine black hairs, two long antennae, three simple black eyes on the forehead, and two black and gray compound eyes facing forward, six segmented legs, and transparent wings with dark veining. The upper segments of the bee's legs are covered in fine black hairs but the lower segments on the rear legs are covered in fine pale-yellow hairs.
Extreme closeup photograph of a (likely) two-spotted longhorn bee resting just within the central petals of a partially opened rose mallow bud (Hibiscus laevis). The bee has a few patches of fine granules of pink-white rose mallow pollen on its leg and head. This bee species has similar features to honeybees with a black abdomen, dark thorax, and head covered in fine black hairs, two long antennae, three simple black eyes on the forehead, and two black and gray compound eyes facing forward, six segmented legs, and transparent wings with dark veining. The upper segments of the bee's legs are covered in fine black hairs but the lower segments on the rear legs are covered in fine pale-yellow hairs.
Extreme closeup photograph of a (likely) two-spotted longhorn bee resting just within the central petals of a partially opened rose mallow bud (Hibiscus laevis). The bee has a few patches of fine granules of pink-white rose mallow pollen on its leg and head. This bee species has similar features to honeybees with a black abdomen, dark thorax, and head covered in fine black hairs, two long antennae, three simple black eyes on the forehead, and two black and gray compound eyes facing forward, six segmented legs, and transparent wings with dark veining. The upper segments of the bee's legs are covered in fine black hairs but the lower segments on the rear legs are covered in fine pale-yellow hairs.