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Absolutely love this!
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“Paint me like one of your French ground beetles”
(Variegated June Beetle)
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Japanese beetles mating
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A little family of skunks
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This one decided to be a little extra
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Self portraiture
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Untitled self portrait, 2023
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Want to Save the Bees? Focus on Habitat, Not Honey Bees
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There has been an amazing groundswell of support for bees, motivating people everywhere to act—creating pollinator gardens, planting habitat in parks and on farms, reducing pesticide use or campaigning for citywide bans. It is clear that people care, and many have rallied around this issue.
For some, a tangible goal has been to get a honey bee hive. As a result, hives have appeared in gardens and backyards, on rooftops, and in parks and nature reserves. On the surface, this makes sense: if bees are declining, it would seem that more bees in more places will help. Yet, when we look deeper, efforts to increase the number of honey bees on the landscape may be doing more harm than good.
Read the full article here.
via The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
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Mom and her literal ball of children
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Get a handful
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More bee
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White coral slime mold
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A small family of skunks
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Green sweat bee
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Japanese Beetle, likely parasitized by tachnid flies as you can tell by the white “bumps” behind the head. This is definitely infested with a form of ectoparasite though.
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Variegated June Beetle
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Zebra jumping spider
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