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benjyhere.bsky.social
#SolitaryBee season open - signs of hatching around the hotel and if you look carefully you can see the white moustache of an orchard mason bee. Not much pollen about but cherry plum is coming into flower and the snowdrops are out and about. Forecast bit wet though... @ianbeavis.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 12:30 PM
minouette.bsky.social
I made a full edition of my alfalfa leafcutting bee (Megachile rotundata) cutting a leaf. The alfalfa leafcutting bee is a solitary bee originally from Europe which has been spread to all continents but Antartica for agriculture. 🐡🧪🐝

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#linocut #printmaking #Megachile #solitaryBee #pollinator
My linocut print shows a section of leaf with an alfalfa leaf cutter bee in the act of cutting its telltale half-moon shape. The leaf is a pale green with dark green veins and patterns and much paler obverse site. The bee is black and pale yellow. My print is on cream coloured Japanese paper with bark inclusions.
January 24, 2026 at 12:41 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
An alternative photo of the Orange Vented Mason #bee that I recovered from the nest tubes. I think this lighting, and background is better for showing off the details of his mouthparts. #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #insects #solitarybee #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife
A portrait profile shot of a bees head and thorax. The bee is looking to the right, with a green/blue background. It's covered in fine hairs, from pale yellow to orange in colour. The whole of the bee is in focus allowing details like the occeli on it's head to be clearly visible. It's tongue is extended, with the central glossa having a bottlebrush like structure on the end. The labial palpa, which extend either side of the glossa to help form a tube to drink nectar, are also visible, as are the galea which support the tongue when it's in use.
January 12, 2026 at 1:09 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
When I cleaned out the bee nests in Oct this ♂️ Orange Vented Mason #bee (correct me if I'm wrong!) was in a tube, having died at the back. I kept him for some 📷, this is a focus-stacked composite of 40+ pics. I love the detail on his tongue! #wildlifefrommywindow #solitarybee #invertebrates #insects
A portrait profile shot of a bees head and thorax. The bee is looking to the right, with a black background. It's covered in fine hairs, from pale yellow to orange in colour. The whole of the bee is in focus allowing details like the occeli on it's head to be clearly visible. It's tongue is extended, with the central glossa having a bottlebrush like structure on the end. The labial palpa, which extend either side of the glossa to help form a tube to drink nectar, are also visible, as are the galea which support the tongue when it's in use.
January 11, 2026 at 2:28 PM
lisawilliams30.bsky.social
Female Megachile willughbiella Leafcutter bee with leaf! 15/06/25, #RSPBMiddletonLakes #Megachile #solitarybee
January 9, 2026 at 10:37 AM
lisawilliams30.bsky.social
Female Andrena haemorrhoa bee, seen at #RSPBMiddletonLakes, 27/04/25 #solitarybee #bee #Andrena
January 9, 2026 at 9:57 AM
lisawilliams30.bsky.social
Female Hylaeus hyalinatus bee in my #Staffs garden 25/07/25 #solitarybee #bee
December 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
lisawilliams30.bsky.social
A late female Colletes hederae from 08/11/25, Tamworth #bee #solitarybee #Colletes
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
lisawilliams30.bsky.social
Colletes hederae still present at #RSPBMiddletonLakes, 18/10/25 #bee #solitarybee #Colletes
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
lisawilliams30.bsky.social
Plenty of Colletes hederae, Ivy Bees, present at #RSPBMiddletonLakes, 28/09/25 #bee #solitarybee #Colletes
October 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
wanderingreen.bsky.social
Ashy mining bee. I really love this perspective on the subject. Head on and at eye level. I think my next few posts will be of the same angle...
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#solitarybee #pollinators #savethebees
The face of a solitary bee sat on a seed. The background is blurry.
September 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
lisawilliams30.bsky.social
Colletes hederae, Ivy bees are back! Tamworth, #Staffs 30/08/25 #Colletes #IvyBee #Bee #solitarybee
August 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
lisawilliams30.bsky.social
Slightly ropey photos but my 1st Melitta tricincta bee, seen 08/08/25 at Brandon Marsh, #Warwickshire @warwickshirewt.bsky.social #Melitta #solitarybee #bee
August 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
biophilliabotany.bsky.social
Unexpectedly I located a further crimped leaf this morning, as the female Leaf cutter worked well until sunset

A South facing Verbascum Olypmpicum ~ Olympic Mullein

Also visited by both night/day pollinators amongst our crescent leaf nester collectors

#Solitarybee
July 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
duleyp.bsky.social
My eldest spotted this Wood Carving Leafcutter #solitarybee bedraggled on a thistle. She slowly perked up after the rain, and moved into a patch of sunshine. She's 'old', with tatty wings and damage to one eye, but gorgeous all the same. #wildlifefrommywindow #gardenwildlife #invertebrates #insects
A dark brown bee, with light brown fluffy highlights, climbing up the side of a blue thistle flower. A dark brown bee, with light brown fluffy highlights, viewed from her right hand side, on the top of a blue thistle flower. Under her abdomen is a yellow brown pollen brush, that becomes dark brown under her tail. A dark brown bee, with light brown fluffy highlights, viewed from her left front, on the top of a blue thistle flower. Her left eye has a crease across the middle that might be from impact damage.
July 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
lisawilliams30.bsky.social
Worn Andrena flavipes? What do we all think? Seen at #RSPBMiddletonLakes 28/06/25 @liamolds.bsky.social @obeckett98.bsky.social #solitarybee #bee #Andrena
July 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
lisawilliams30.bsky.social
Female Lasioglossum leucozonium bee from 09/06/25, my #Staffs garden #solitarybee #bee
July 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
lisawilliams30.bsky.social
A female Osmia leaiana bee enjoying a Knapweed flower, seen 25/06/25, Tameside Nature Reserve, #Staffs #solitarybee #bee
July 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
ormejks.bsky.social
Busy:
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#insects #invertebrates #bee #SolitaryBee #FourBandedFlowerBee #AnthophoraQuadrimaculata #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting #MacroPhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders #MacroMonday
A Four-banded Flower Bee feeds from the purple flower of a black horehound plant. He is a small grey and black solitary bee, with a yellow face and large grey eyes.
July 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
I could do with some #bee #invertID please. This little one has been foraging on the Queen Anne's Lace, but I'm struggling to work out what it is. #solitarybee #inverts #invertebrates
A four picture collage showing different views of a small dark bee, with pollen collected on her rear legs. She has some light brown "eyeshadow", and the occaisional light coloured hair on her body. In all the photos she is resting on Queen Anne's Lace, which is made up of multiple tiny white flowers clustered together into a platform.
July 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
A Common Furrow #bee foraging on the last of the Fox and Cub flowers (grown from seed from @jemimasgarden.bsky.social!). These flowers have been so popular with the smaller bee species, a great addition to the garden. #solitarybee #invertebrates #insect #wildlifefrommywindow #ukwildlife
A small bronze coloured bee with light brown hair, and browny yellow bands on its abdomen. It's nestled in a red and yellow flower, with a dusting of pollen on its face and body.
July 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
lisawilliams30.bsky.social
A very smart looking male Osmia leaiana bee, seen at #RSPBArne 28/05/25 #solitarybee #bee
July 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
lisawilliams30.bsky.social
A very fresh looking Megachile versicolor bee, seen at #RSPBArne 28/05/25, a species I don't see often #solitarybee #bee
July 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
A leafcutter bee foraging in the sun #Fridaybee #solitarybee 🐝 #theweethings ##beeFriday
A small bee forages on the side of a purple flower. Her pollen brush on the underside of the abdomen appears orange and is loaded with pollen.
July 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
duleyp.bsky.social
This is a short clip of the #leafcutterbee taken on my phone from one of her visits. #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife #insect #solitarybee #invertebrates #wildlifefrommywindow
July 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM