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blackswallowtailbutterfly · 1 month

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Bzzz!

Just some bees in my garden and in the fields and on a neighbourhood walk. :)

Featured bees include bumblebees (native), green sweatbees (native), honeybees (invasive), carpenter bees (native), and some I'm not sure about.

Featured flower hosts include bull thistles (invasive weed), rose of sharon (invasive), New England aster (native), cup plant (native), starthistle (not native), Nuttall's sunflower (native), purple coneflower (native), anise hyssop (native), white wood aster (native), swamp milkweed (native), sow thistle (invasive weed), creeping charlie (invasive), creeping thistle (invasive weed), wild rose (native maybe), wild bergamot (native), bride's feathers (native), bigleaf lupin (native maybe or invasive), and upright prairie coneflower "Mexican hat" (native species, but a cultivar).

All my photos, unedited. Don't mind the weirdness of the third last photo. It's my phone's "portrait" which I found out belatedly can have, uh, interesting results.

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mycthefirefly · 11 months

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sweat bees. Tiny tiny bee that's about 1cm. Due to their small size, I first mistaken them as hover flies. But they have longer antennas and "smaller" eyes (unlike the silly sunglasses-looking eyes flies have).

隧蜂，一種非常小的蜂，會採蜜。約一公分長。喜歡人的汗水。

#sweatbees #bees #insect #cute #yellow #flowers #nature #naturephotography #easterntaiwan #taiwan #hualien #隧蜂 #昆蟲 #自然

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pogomcl · 11 months

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Golden Furrow Bee, Halictus subauratus Canon 7D EFS-60 2.8 f/5.6 1/320 iso:125 Prague, Czech Republic July 22, 2020

#Bees #SweatBees #Hymenoptera #Halictidae #insect #invertebrates #Macro #pollinators #insectphotography #insects #macro #macrophotography #canon

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skelebee · 1 year

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12.8.22 - I got your milk and cookies, sweaty.

#chity #bug people #drawcember #cause shes a sweatbee get it

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kestrels-and-katydids · 9 months

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anyone: ew a sweat bee! 😡🙄

me: *don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it* acTUALLY—

#yes there are sweatbees cool #but most commonly what you see are hoverflies!!#I’ve noticed a lot of calligrapher flies in my area :}#bugs #kestrel calls

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nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri · 2 years

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Scenes From My Walk - Ligated Furrow Bee (Halictus ligatus) on Hairy Goldenaster Halictus ligatus is a species of sweat bee from the family Halictidae. #ScenesFromMyWalk #LigatedFurrowBee #SweatBee #HairyGoldenaster #Bee #Flower #Insect (at Agua Fria, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj8DCGoOyMR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#scenesfrommywalk #ligatedfurrowbee #sweatbee #hairygoldenaster #bee #flower #insect

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charlottan · 2 years

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SWEAT CHAT

SweatyGuy745: I'm soo sweaty is anyone else sweaty

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W3tB3ast: Same here man

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LosingElectrolites: I just did 10000000 jumping jacks

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Xx-SweatBee-xX: if i was any sweatier i could spring a leak!

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NeverWet: i think being sweaty is gross, and i would never do it.

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spookykestrel · 8 months

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tell me about bugs ! /lhnp

Aah ty for the ask this is so general there’s so many facts and things um (edit I didn’t mean to write a whole essay you don’t have to read the whole thing)

Recently I’ve been enjoying learning about spiders which is ever so slightly ironic considering how afraid I was of them and how I still am a bit scared to come across ones I’m not familiar with. Learning about them makes them so much less scary though. A lot of the most venomous and scariest spiders are actually relatively docile and won’t bite unless threatened or they’re a mother with babies. In the US there hasn’t been a death from a black widow bite in 40 years bc their bites are rare and able to be treated. A lot of venomous spiders can actually administer dry bites too or control the amount of venom they inject which is super cool. Since their venom is used to kill prey, when they bite a human it’s usually just in self defense so a lot of bites from deadly spiders aren’t actually that dangerous. Ofc it’s still imperative to seek treatment just in case you have a reaction or they did inject venom (although you’d be able to tell there’s some nasty symptoms). Most cases are able to be treated, too, with anti-venom and while not a pleasant experience they’re rarely deadly.

I feel like there needs to be a picture here to break up this post so uhhhhh here’s a bunch of bees on a clover ( and a Yellowjacket)

One of my other interests rn is misconceptions/misidentifications. Which ig ties into spider bites. One common myth is that daddy longlegs spiders are super venomous but their fangs are too small to bite humans. This is very wrong for several reason uhh first is that daddy longlegs is a super broad term used to refer to cellar spiders (actual spiders of the araneae order), harvestmen (arachnids in the opilione order so Not Spiders), and crane flies (these are literally flies as the name suggests. They…. They aren’t spiders they have wings they aren’t venomous. Although they do have long legs). Cellar spiders are a little venomous but their venom poses little harm to humans (just a typical insect bite yk) and they rarely bite humans. Harvestmen actually don’t have venom and don’t have fangs just hollow claws used to grip. Which can’t harm people.

anyway harvestman are the absolute silliest guys I love seeing them bounce around

(Photo credit evanaturalist on inat <3)

Another quickl thing (I promise I’ll stop soon you invoked a topic I’m incapable of being normal about and gave me no limitations or anything so I’m on a ramble there’ll be no survivors etcetc) is also about flies. A lot of people assume those itty bitty sweat bees that hover around you at the park or whatever are actually more likely to be hoverflies (instead of a real sweatbee)! They only have one set of wings (unlike a bee) and no they can’t sting. I told this all to my friend at a concert who was being very annoyed by the one following her around and after explaining them and marveling over the super cool patterning of the calligrapher flies (specific type of hoverfly) they actually came around and admitted they’re very cool and it was a lovely moment bc once you know more about something then you can accept it more yay woohoo.

^ the black and yellow is deceiving it only has the one set of wings. If you cared the one pictured is a maize calligrapher specifically . Very common in the US and Canada.

Oh and I got a millipede tatto did you see :]

#thank you for coming to my Tedtalk I apologise for it being ten trillion years long #and I’m sorry idk when to make paragraph breaks so it’s very long chunks of text #I just think talking about bugs and creepy crawlies #and generally expressing my admiration for them #helps break down people’s immediate fears and judgement of them and it’s super fun and cool to watch #hopefully you don’t mind learning about spiders I used to hateeee them #I tried to mix it up a bit too #I hope you didn’t expect just a couple of fun facts I don’t really have those #just lectures I could teach a class #one fact is that spring flies have these tails or whatever #that rest under their body and they use them to spring into the air #which is cool #sorry sorry for the ramble #you said ‘no pressure ☺️’ and I said just went off #kestrel calls #chitter chatter #ty for the ask thoigh <3 #mutuals <3 #desc in alt #bugs #spiders #this is like a unskippable cutscene except you can skip it

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fruitsclipper · 8 months

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sweatbee

#astr.txt #beanie #caption is bc i call her sweet bean + it morphed #like the bone apple teeth thing :] 👍

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aflo · 9 months

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got bit by a sweatbee #DamnNatureYouScary

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tinyurbanwilderness · 2 years

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#whitetaildeer #monarchbutterfly #swampmilkweed #sweatbee #certifiedyardhabit #homegrownnationalpark #nature #plants #nativeplants #nativeplanttok

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love-elizabeth · 7 months

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Field journal 📔

ID: Halictidae family (unsure of genus or species)

Common name: Sweat bee (named because on hot days, they seek out sweaty humans to lap up their sweat—which contains salt and proteins—which they will then save for their young.)

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Since I couldn’t narrow down this bee’s ID very far (there are 60 species of sweat bee in FL alone), I can’t tell you much about the species pictured, but I *can* tell you some fun new vocab words I learned while reading about this diverse family of insects.

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In the past, I have heard animal species referred to as specialist or generalist species in reference to how picky they are in what they eat, but in pollination ecology, the following terms can be used.

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Polylectic: this refers to insects that gather pollen from a variety of unrelated flowering plants.

Oligolectic: this refers to insects that only pollinate a single family or genus of flowering plants.

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(Most sweat bee species are polylectic, but there are some that are oligolectic!)

📸 I believe the plant pictured is Genus Seymeria / blacksenna.

📍Orange County, FL

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#bee #sweatbee #florida #nativeplants #nativebees #savethebees #nature #entomology

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usgsbiml · 4 years

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The Lawn Bee. Lasioglossum imitatum. If you are looking for bees in any urban/suburban/highly disturbed habitat in the East, you will find this bee. Small even for a Lasioglossum, it loves whatever conditions it loves about lawns and beat up habitats. A survivor, a crow and sparrow bee that surely is not on the list of declining bees species. To save this bee you should put in a ball diamond. Would it be so easy for the rest of the species. Probably fond of small invasive fast food pollen, I am not sure how much quantification there has been of its diet. Id wise, it has wide cheeks and tiny thick bright white prostrate hairs on its abdomen that occur in nice parallel lines (not too obvious in this series of shots). Picture by Erick Hernandez.

#usgs #bees #stipled #sweatbees #lasioglossum #halictidae #lawn #delawnify #lawnify #suburban #dirt #dirtball #cosmo #cosmopolitan #panic at the everywhere #everyman

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thegrandimago · 3 years

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This is the 36th installment of 'Since I've Been Gone'. Taken on the same day as the previous post while working for @americanconservationexperience, I found a ligated furrow bee (Halictus ligatus) that was covered in pollen. What makes these burrowing sweat bees interesting is they have rather primitive eusocial behavior, reinforced with aggression, with a colony cycle that begins during the winter with inactivity, which only the young gynes can survive. Come spring, there is a spike in nest initiation among the newly developed queens, followed by the production of workers during summer. Come late summer-autumn, the production is switched from producing workers to producing males and gynes. Then the cycle starts over once winter has perished all, but the young gynes. It makes me wonder if this is one of those autumn males. #animal #animals #wildlife #texaswildlife #txwildlife #nature #texasbees #texasnature #invertebrate #invertebrates #fauna #imago #texasinsects #insect #insects #insectagram #bee #bees #sweatbee #sweatbees #pollinators #animalia #arthropod #arthropods #arthropoda #insecta #hemiptera #halictidae #halictus #halictusligatus (at Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVG7QyrAFSR/?utm_medium=tumblr

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driftlessroots · 6 years

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Metallic green and stripes. What's not to love! One of my favorite bees, Agapostemon #bees #sweatbees #nativebees #solitarybees #pollinators

#bees #pollinators #solitarybees #sweatbees #nativebees

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uphindia-world · 5 years

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Women cries her eye out as Dr finds four insects in her eyes

Four “sweat bees” that had been living in a Taiwanese woman’s eye were removed by a doctor who described his surprise at finding a “leg with hair, protruding from the eyelid”. The tiny insects, which are just three millimetres (one-tenth of an inch) long, were discovered after the woman — known only as Ms Ho — sought treatment for an itchy and swollen left eye, Dr Horng Chi-ting said.

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#DR #eyes #finds four #insects #sweatbees

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