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duleyp.bsky.social
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My word, the news is unrelentedly shit at the moment... so I'm switching to my Nature list only on BSky for a bit!

This female Ivy #bee was going her thing last weekend. The ivy was alive with bees, flies, and wasps, which was delightful. 😊 #solitarybees #wildlifefrommywindow #insects #inverts
A profile shot of a fluffy bee. She has yellow and black stripes on her abdomen, a fluffy orange downy thorax, and a fluffy head, apart from her dark eyes and antennae. Her hind leg is covered in pollen collected from the Ivy flowers she's resting on. The ivy flowers are like tiny globes with a stalk out the top with the pollen held on the end.
October 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM Everybody can reply
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Jeroen van der Sluijs
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Critical habitat thresholds for effective pollinator conservation in agricultural landscapes

#pollinators
#biodiversity
#butterflies
#hoverflies
#bumblebees
#solitarybees

Butterflies require >37% semi-natural habitat cover in agricultural landscapes!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Critical habitat thresholds for effective pollinator conservation in agricultural landscapes
Biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes is declining, but evidence-based conservation targets to guide international policies for such landscapes are lacking. We present a framework for informing h...
www.science.org
September 26, 2025 at 4:36 AM Everybody can reply
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Jeremy Bartlett
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Ivy Bees, Colletes hederae, are no longer a novelty here in Norfolk. Nonetheless, it's lovely to see them and to smell the heady scent of Ivy flowers on a sunny early autumn day.

#Bees #SolitaryBees #UKWildlife
Ivy Bee, Colletes hederae, at rest on Ivy foliage. A female Ivy Bee, Colletes hederae, on an Ivy flower.
September 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM Everybody can reply
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benjyhere.bsky.social
Ben
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We always get a few ivy bees in the garden and here's this year's first. #SolitaryBees
September 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM Everybody can reply
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Roger_TL45Y
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In #Cambridge yesterday Ivy Bees, Colletes hederae, in numbers on Ivy in Coronation St (top left) and in the Systematic Beds at the #BotanicGarden being far from solitary (top right) and a fly past over the Rubiaceae bed below. @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
#Bees #SolitaryBees
September 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM Everybody can reply
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Roger_TL45Y
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Perhaps the local Ivy isn't quite ready yet! Here's an Ivy Bee on Wild Carrot by Shaker's Lane #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk. yesterday. #Bees #SolitaryBees
September 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM Everybody can reply
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Jeremy Bartlett
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Ivy Bees, Colletes hederae.

At their nesting aggregation at the entrance to Earlham Cemetery, Norwich, this morning.

#Bees #SolitaryBees #UKWildlife
Ivy Bees, Colletes hederae, at their nesting aggregation. Ivy Bees, Colletes hederae, at their nesting aggregation.
September 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM Everybody can reply
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GetNews.me
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Cellophane bees (Colletes inaequalis) recover from chill coma twice as fast as honeybees, their 4‑5‑week life starts spring break, ends by mid‑May in the northern U.S. Read more: https://getnews.me/cold-proof-cellophane-bees-face-new-climate-risks/ #cellophanebee #solitarybees #climatechange
Cold‑Proof Cellophane Bees Face New Climate Risks
September 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM Everybody can reply
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Ed Phillips
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First Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae) that I've seen in our #Staffs garden this year; a male. Lots of other invertebrates on the Ivy too, showing what in important resource it is. #bees #SolitaryBees #pollination #macro #photograph #biodiversity
Macro photograph of an Ivy Bee on garden ivy flowers.
August 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM Everybody can reply
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duleyp.bsky.social
duleyp.bsky.social
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Spent a little time this afternoon knelt by the Marjoram watching the Common Furrow #bees coming and going. They're dinky little #solitarybees (the face is a little over 2mm across) and they don't ever seem to stay still! #wildlifefrommywindow #ukwildlife #invertebrates #insects
A portrait close up of a tiny bee half facing the viewer, whilst standing on the green flowers (with the odd white petal) of a Marjoram plant. The bee has light brown fur on its face, and a patch of yellow above its jaws. Its thorax is also covered in light brown fur, its legs has yellow knees, and feet, with dark brown 'shins'.
August 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM Everybody can reply
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Doctor Melissa Palmer
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Leaf-cutter bee UK carrying leaf #nature #insects #bee #solitarybees #wildlifephotography
August 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM Everybody can reply
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Ed Phillips
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Female Coelioxys (sharp-tailed) bee in the garden this morning. These are cuckoo bees that lay their eggs in the nests of leafcutter bees. #macro #photography #Staffs #bees #SolitaryBees #pollination
August 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM Everybody can reply
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Richard Moyse
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Exploring the Rochester Riverside area, currently being developed, for Orthoptera. Flower-rich, "brownfield" vegetation heaving with Field, Meadow, & Lesser Marsh Grasshoppers. Also Pantaloon Bees & LOTS of Bee-wolves. #ukorthoptera #bees #solitarybees #wasps #solitarywasps #brownfield #KentNature
A level area of flower-rich herbaceous vegetation, with buildings in the background. Lesser Marsh Grasshopper. A straw-coloured grasshopper with a pale wing-stripe, against a background of dried grass. A Pantaloon Bee, with its rear towards the camera, as it excavates sand from its nest burrow. Bee-wolf. A wasp with a broad black-and-yellow abdomen, sitting on a leaf.
August 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM Everybody can reply
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Ben
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Fleabane pulling in the leaf cutters and their nemesis.
#SolitaryBees
Sharp tailed bee.
August 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM Everybody can reply
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Urban Butterfly Alliance
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Andrena pilipes, Black Mining Bee #SolitaryBees
August 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM Everybody can reply
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peterpeatfree.bsky.social
Urban Butterfly Alliance
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Black Mining Bee, Andrena pilipes (I think?) spotted at Pegwell bay yesterday #SolitaryBees
August 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM Everybody can reply
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peterpeatfree.bsky.social
Urban Butterfly Alliance
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Pantaloon Bee, Dasypoda hirtipes #SolitaryBees
August 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM Everybody can reply
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Urban Butterfly Alliance
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Always like to check Bristly Oxtongue, when i'm along the coast, just in case there's Pantaloon Bees about. Dasypoda hirtipes spotted at Pegwell nature reserve yesterday #SolitaryBees #WildFlowers
August 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM Everybody can reply
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duleyp.bsky.social
duleyp.bsky.social
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The Thistle is proving a real sanctuary for old, tired, #leafcutter #bees this week. This poor dear is missing her front right leg. Am going to make sure there's a nice large patch of Thistle in the beds next year. #wildlifefrommywindow #gardenwildlife #solitarybees #invertebrates #insects
A profile photo of a bee, facing left to right, on a pink thistle. The bee is black with light brown hairs, which are slightly worn off in patches. She's dusted with yellow polle on her back and face.
August 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM Everybody can reply
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Marco
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Parende pluimvoetbijen op echt bitterkruid. #wildebijen

Maiting pair of Dasypoda hirtipes; female was visiting Picris hieracioides #solitarybees
July 31, 2025 at 9:33 AM Everybody can reply
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BiophilliaBotany
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During July 2018, the 1st of the Leaf-Cutter #Solitarybees were observed within my garden in order to their most prolific foliage preferred nesting materials totalling 17 varieties

Forward to 2025 still creating their convex nesting homes they chose >40 different varieties

Wisteria again came top
The Leaf cutter ~ Solitary bee, using clean hollow canes, now filled with their nesting foliage preferences and sealed ends for overwintering/protection For 7 years Wisteria Alba is still the firm favourite for the female Solitary bee ~ Leaf cutter bee nesting material Solitary bee ~ Megachilidae ~ Leaf cutter bee Snapshot. Insight to the gallery of chosen foliage with crescent shaped leaf sections from the female Megachilidae ~ Solitary bees ~ Leaf cutters
July 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM Everybody can reply
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David Smith
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Spotted in the garden today this Coelioxys conoidea, Large Sharp-tail Bee. It's a cleptoparasite of Megachile maritima, the Coast Leafcutter Bee, so I probably need to review my Megachile IDs. This is a female, and I saw a male a while back. #Coelioxys #SolitaryBees
Dark bee with white marks on its abdomen and pale hairs on the sides of its sharply-pointed thorax. It's feeding from the centre of a golden-yellow marigold flower.
July 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM Everybody can reply
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Jeremy Bartlett
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Female Pantaloon Bees (Dasypoda hirtipes) now out in force in Eaton Park, Norwich.

Seen on Lesser Knapweed, Field Scabious and Globe Thistle.

With @vannabartlett.bsky.social yesterday afternoon.

#Bees #SolitaryBees #ukwildlife
Female Pantaloon Bee (Dasypoda hirtipes) on Lesser Knapweed. Female Pantaloon Bee (Dasypoda hirtipes) on Field Scabious. Female Pantaloon Bee (Dasypoda hirtipes) on Field Scabious. Female Pantaloon Bee (Dasypoda hirtipes) on Globe Thistle (Echinops).
July 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM Everybody can reply
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jeremybartlett.bsky.social
Jeremy Bartlett
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Clover Melitta, Melitta leporina.

Several on Tall Melilot (Melilotus altissimus) in our back garden yesterday evening.

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#bees #SolitaryBees #ukwildlife
A female Clover Melitta, Melitta leporina, on the yellow flowers of Tall Melilot (Melilotus altissimus). A female Clover Melitta, Melitta leporina, on the yellow flowers of Tall Melilot (Melilotus altissimus). A female Clover Melitta, Melitta leporina, on the yellow flowers of Tall Melilot (Melilotus altissimus). A female Clover Melitta, Melitta leporina, on the yellow flowers of Tall Melilot (Melilotus altissimus).
July 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM Everybody can reply
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Ed Phillips
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Tiny male Hylaeus (Yellow-face) Bee in the garden bee-hotel today. With the whitish colouration of the face, shape of facial markings, orange underside to antennae and suggestion of hairiness, this could be a Hairy Yellow-face Bee (H. hyalinatus). #macro #photography #bees #SolitaryBees
July 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM Everybody can reply
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