A female Lasioglossum bee, possibly fratellum or fulvicorne? Seen RSPB Middleton Lakes 25/05/24 Solitary Bee Week Steven Falk Liam Olds #solitarybee #bee
Is this Anthrax Anthrax, Black-winged Bee-fly? In Canterbury today Steven Falk Ian Beavis Band Wars #SolitaryBeeWeek
Why not #EarnYourStripes for #SolitaryBeeWeek β¦Solitary Bee Weekβ© β¦Buglifeβ©
Plenty of ideas here:
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Female Nomada goodeniana seen RSPB Middleton Lakes 25/05/24, not a bee I have recorded there before Solitary Bee Week #bee #solitarybee #Nomada
Big Bull Wall Carder Bee, Anthidium manicatum nectaring on Betony - really excited to be seeing these in my garden this year #SolitaryBeeWeek #NatureGarden #Pollinators #GardeningTwitter
Quickly prepared more nesting straws for resin bees, I have LOADS of them and I donβt think itβs enough straws atm π (turn π off for video, slow motion videos have irritating sound when uploaded on Twitter π€¦π») #solitarybee #londonwildlife #solitarybee week
Often #osmiabicornis aka #redmason bee have a quirky trait. They replenish their cells by backing in to their home. First they fly home, check their tube out, then come out and back in. They do this to scrape off collected pollen from the hairs of the underside! #SolitaryBeeWeek
It's #SolitaryBeeWeek , so we're celebrating our Tawny Mining Bees and our Peace Garden residents, the masonry bees! We love when these little guys start buzzing around the cemetery, and it's clear to see that their numbers are growing year on year! π
A male Osmia leaiana bee on the wetlands today 25/05/24 RSPB Middleton Lakes, a site 1st Solitary Bee Week #bee #solitarybee #Osmia
More Patchwork Leafcutter Bees (Megachile centuncularis) from the garden for Day 2 of #SolitaryBeeWeek π They are absolutely lovinβ the silver ragwort! πΌ
IG: itsyourgirlnature ~ Solitary Bee Week #NatureBeauty #Insects #Bees #TwitterNatureCommunity
Megachile (Leafcutter) bees π
Female on the left and male on the right.
Notice how much he much more pale fluff he has on his face than she does β a quick way of determining which is which!
#SolitaryBeeWeek
A female Chocolate Mining Bee (Andrena scotica) living up to its name in my garden yesterday. Its abdomen really does look as glossy as a bar of dark chocolate! #solitarybees #bees Solitary Bee Week
Itβs #SolitaryBeeWeek ! π
Do you know the difference between a honeybee and solitary bee? As the name suggests, solitary bees live alone, but they also donβt produce honey or have a queen.
90% of our entire bee population is solitary β how many of these have you spotted? π
Itβs time to celebrate our solitary bees!π
Itβs #solitarybeeweek - a week to do all we can to raise awareness of these amazing and hardworking pollinators.
We have a humongous 240+ species of solitary bee in the UK! Tag your pics @solitarybeeweek @urbee_ltd
