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Albert CardonaEls romanís i els limòniums en flor estaven carregats d'abelles, moltes d'elles ben remenudes. N'hi havia tota una colla, potser una dotzena d'espècies, de les quals he pogut fotografiar-ne uns quants gèneres: Megachile, Colletes, Halictus (2 o 3 espècies), Hylaeus, Bombus, Lasioglossum i Ceratina, a més a més de Nomioides. D'aquestes, el Halictus subauratus és ben bonic:<a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/303410648" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/303410648</a><a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/iNaturalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#iNaturalist</a> <a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/Hymenoptera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hymenoptera</a> <a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/nativebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativebees</a>

Albert CardonaAquest matí he anat a fer fotografies de bestioletes vora la mar, amb la idea de trobar la meva abella solitària preferida: Nomioides minutissimus. I l'he trobada! Primer en un romaní en flor, però les fotos no foren gaire bones. Després en uns matolls de limòniums, tots en flor, preciosos. Heus aquí una entrada a l'<a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/iNaturalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#iNaturalist</a> d'aquesta abella tan remenuda, potser d'uns 3 mil·límetres:<a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/303420300" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/303420300</a><a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/Hymenoptera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hymenoptera</a> <a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/nativebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativebees</a> <a href="https://mastodont.cat/tags/entomologia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#entomologia</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bloomscrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bloomscrolling</a> break. And hubby wanted to remove the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MilkThistle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MilkThistle</a> plant near the rain barrel (we have a couple of plants). I was like, "Nope! The bees love it! It stays! Just watch out for the prickly bits." <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bees</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bumblebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bumblebees</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeBees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeBees</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Beehuggah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Beehuggah</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Flowers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GardeningForPollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GardeningForPollinators</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SolarPunkSunday</a>

Joe Wynne 🌻 🚗 ⛰️<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/InsectSaturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InsectSaturday</a> Sure, European Honeybees are effective agricultural pollinators in the U.S., but what about our native bees?🐝 Check out this shiny green beauty! It's a Metallic Green Sweat Bee, a generalist pollinator. It pollinates many trees, shrubs and flowers.🌻 Solitary, it takes pollen to its young in burrows underground or in rotting logs. I keep a population safe in my <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#garden</a> by not using pesticides and leaving large areas in a more natural state.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NativeBees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeBees</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Insect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Insect</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nature</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gardening</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HabitatGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HabitatGardening</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/BiodiversityGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BiodiversityGardening</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bees</a>

Nate Allen<a href="https://pdx.social/tags/nativebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativebees</a> story <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/hsji/2025/07/new-resource-helps-researchers-to-track-native-bees-in-oregon.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.oregonlive.com/hsji/2025/07/new-resource-helps-researchers-to-track-native-bees-in-oregon.html</a>

KellyAnn Romanych (she/her)Today 2 generations of urban wild bees visited Pretty sure a new generation emerged of green sweat bee, AgopostemonAnd a Lasioglossum gathering pollen for her next generation<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NativeBees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeBees</a>

Sisyphus with a HatAn orange-tipped wood digger enjoying the anise hyssop in the garden.<a href="https://c.im/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bees</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/pollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pollinators</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/nativebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativebees</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/yxe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#yxe</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/wildlifegardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildlifegardening</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/anisehyssop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anisehyssop</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/nativeplants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativeplants</a>

Ray N. Franklin 🇺🇸When primrose blossoms proliferated, so did these green-headed bees, and they love to spend the night at The Best Exotic Primrose Bee Hotel. But there's always one that overstays checkout time. 🐝😁<a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/u9Tv5HGIKQc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/shorts/u9Tv5HGIKQc</a><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/nativeBees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativeBees</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/colorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#colorado</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/bloomScrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bloomScrolling</a>

Albert CardonaAnthophora sp., a species of digger bee I'm not sure I knew of yet. <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/295196634" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/295196634</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/iNaruralist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#iNaruralist</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/nativebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativebees</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Hymenoptera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hymenoptera</a>

CMacDThe Two-spotted Longhorn Bee (Melissodes bimaculatus) is another one of my frequent garden visitors. You can see a male in the middle of a Showy Evening Primrose Oenothera speciosa) and a female hovering close by Lemon Beebalm (Monarda citriodora.)<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nativebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativebees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nativebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativebees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wildflowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildflowers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nativegarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativegarden</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/entomology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#entomology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wildlifephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildlifephotography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gardening</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gardens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gardens</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conservation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/invertebrateconservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#invertebrateconservation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/invertebrates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#invertebrates</a>

CMacDIt seems my garden is popular with American Bumble bees (Bombus pensylvanicus), I see them regularly, Someone told me bees generally favor purple and yellow blooms, and many of the native plants and vegetables growing in my garden are accommodating in that regard. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vegetablegarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vegetablegarden</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nativebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativebees</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#beans</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/invertebrateconservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#invertebrateconservation</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/invertebrates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#invertebrates</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/entomology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#entomology</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gardening</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildlife</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wildlifephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildlifephotography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bees</a>

Ms. Que Banh<a href="https://beige.party/tags/TinyHomes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TinyHomes</a> for <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NativeBees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeBees</a> at <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WellandCommunityOrchard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WellandCommunityOrchard</a> 🐝 <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Bee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bee</a> condos wall, hosts native sweat bees, leaf cutter bees & blue mason <a href="https://beige.party/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bees</a>.<a href="https://beige.party/tags/Pollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pollinators</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FoodSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FoodSecurity</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CommunityOrchard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CommunityOrchard</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ViewRoyal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ViewRoyal</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Saanich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Saanich</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VictoriaBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VictoriaBC</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/YYJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YYJ</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VancouverIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VancouverIsland</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VanIsle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VanIsle</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PNW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PNW</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SaveTheBees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SaveTheBees</a>

Cascade PineFuzzy green bee from the genus Agapostemon.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bees</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#insects</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/nativeBees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativeBees</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/pollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pollinators</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/macroPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macroPhotography</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/pnw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pnw</a>

Sisyphus with a HatA Hunt's bumblebee serenely clinging to a swaying Foxglove beardtongue, with a very gentle, much needed drizzle coming down. <a href="https://c.im/tags/huntsbumblebee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#huntsbumblebee</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/foxgloveBeardtongues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#foxgloveBeardtongues</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/nativebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativebees</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/nativeplants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativeplants</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/wildlifegardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildlifegardening</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rain</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/yxe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#yxe</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#insects</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/pollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pollinators</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDFor <a href="https://spore.social/tags/PollinatorWeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PollinatorWeek</a> I am sharing the pollinator garden work which I made for my show *next week* about the future of pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems. Using collaged linocut prints I built up this little garden with multiple native wildflowers, bees, moths, butterflies, beetles and a log, complete with some holes as homes for native bees. 🧵1/2<a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/wildflowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildflowers</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/pollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pollinators</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/nativeBees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativeBees</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mastoArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/manufacturedecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#manufacturedecosystems</a>

le Pétomane AncienMaltese Cross is not native to USDA 5A but it attracted at least one native bee. That wins it a reprieve from the weed puller. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BloomScrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BloomScrolling</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NativeBees" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NativeBees</a>

Joe Wynne 🌻 🚗 ⛰️<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NationalPollinatorWeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NationalPollinatorWeek</a> 🐝 Before sunrise, a Bumble Bee sleeps on the mound of a Coneflower. That's dedication to the job. Gets up and starts working immediately.🐛 Unbee-knownst, a caterpillar munches below. Probably a Geometer Moth caterpillar but haven't been able to get confirmation yet.Good example of two ways insects interact with plants ecologically. Some eat them, other pollinate them. Insects evolved in association with certain plants and have adapted to their defenses. Non-native plants can overrun natives and be inedible to the eaters. <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/BiodiversityGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BiodiversityGardening</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HabitatGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HabitatGardening</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gardening</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NativePlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativePlants</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Insects</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NativeBees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeBees</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nature</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/gardening" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@gardening</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDPollinator Week is a great time to share this print, which expresses the central theme of my work about the Future of Pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems. Our food sources & ecosystems around us are dependent on pollinators (mostly bees & other insects, some birds & mammals) but insects populations have lost huge numbers and many species altogether.🧵<a href="https://spore.social/tags/PollinatorWeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PollinatorWeek</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/nativeBees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativeBees</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/entomology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#entomology</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecology</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#insects</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/butterflies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#butterflies</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/beetles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#beetles</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#moths</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ManufacturedEcosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ManufacturedEcosystems</a>

Joe Wynne 🌻 🚗 ⛰️🦋 New species in my garden! 🥳 A Painted Lady on a Black-eyed Susan.🐛 The caterpillars feed on thistles and I have a few. 🐛 They also feed on mallows. I need to get some mallows, actually, especially the U.S. temperate version of the popular Hibiscus. The platter-shaped flowers of the Swamp Rose-Mallow would look great. Even better, they provide food for <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NativeBees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeBees</a> and caterpillars of two other butterflies: the Gray Hairstreak and Common Checkered-skipper. That would be serious habitat building! 💪 <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/BiodiversityGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BiodiversityGardening</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HabitatGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HabitatGardening</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gardening</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/gardening" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@gardening</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NativePlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativePlant</a>

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