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sickonsin:

I encountered this on a walk around my block. At first I thought it was just 2 bees having some quality time…but then I looked at the photo and noticed a 3rd bee. I have no idea what is going on. Is it sexy time? Is the big bee being held down and taken without consent? Are the little bees somehow killing the big one or stealing its sweet pollen? Is the big one just a little bit slutty? Anyone know?

I don’t know as much about bumblebees as I do honeybees, but I believe the large one is a queen, and the two smaller ones are males attracted to her pheromones. Obviously only one could manage to latch on to mate, and the other is just hanging around, still attracted by her queenly smell. :’D

fyeahcutebugs:

mylittlebeekeeper:

How to plant a bee garden:

Plant different kinds of flowers so something is always blooming! And avoid highly hybridized plants, which don’t provide much pollen (bees eat pollen!) - and even consider leaving “weed” plants alone for a while so the bees can get to them first before you remove them.

Only use natural pesticides and fertilizers - wouldn’t want to make the poor dears sick!

Make a bee bath! Take a shallow dish and put some pebbles or small rocks in it so that when you put water in it, the tops of the rocks are above water - that way the bees can come and land on the rocks and have a drink.

Create places for bees to nest, like leaving bare dirt for burrowing bees and providing wood for carpenter bees or mud for mason bees.

Even if all you have space for is a potted plant, that can help support local bees a little too! =D

omfg this is the best ask blog. ;_;

re-reblogging myself THANK YOU FOR EXISTING AND MAKING THIS, DIME. ;;;; ♥♥♥

I saved a little bee friend that was falling asleep on the sidewalk. Scooped it up with a helicopter seed, then it crawled on my finger for a while and licked my fingernails. Then I left it on a flower bush. ;U;

(Source: animadvertistine)

rhamphotheca:

Wasps Can Spot Familiar Faces

by Daniel Strain

Wasps can recognize faces much like many apes do, researchers report online today in Science. The team taught paper wasps (Polistes fuscatus), whose faces sport distinctive brown and creamy markings, to associate certain wasp mugshots with safety and others with danger in an electrified maze. The buzzers flew to safety quicker and with fewer errors when a kind face led the way, the team found. Closely related, but much less social, wasp species couldn’t achieve that same feat of recognition. Still, the paper wasps weren’t flawless. When the team plucked the antennae off the heads of photographed bugs, the ability of the wasps to distinguish one insect from another dropped—as if the critters had been missing a nose.

(via: Science NOW)     (image: Science, AAAS)

!!! ADORABO WASP FACES. Reblogging for biology awesome and wasp character(s) inspiration, dohoho. 

thingsorganizedneatly:

SUBMISSION: Labor Day brings us the end of summer in Minnesota and even more depressingly, the end of the MN State Fair.  Here is the 2011 Liquid Honey Contest Display in the Agriculture-Horticulture Building.  Same as last year and every year that I’ve ever been there (30 years?).  My favorite part of the fair.

LIQUID (EXTRACTED) HONEY
Quality honey, containing no more than 18.6% moisture, packed in one (1) lb. queenline or classic jars, fitted
with appropriate metal or plastic lids. Entry to consist of 12 jars/bottles.

Score Criteria - Liquid Honey
Container - appearance and cleanliness……………………………………………………….10
Color - conformity to schedule ……………………………………………………………………15
Volume - accuracy and uniformity of fill…………………………………………………………10
Absence of impurities, including froth …………………………………………………………..15
Moisture, scaled by percentage ………………………………………………………………….20
Clarity - absence of crystals, bubbles …………………………………………………………..20
Flavor - absence of off aroma or flavor …………………………………………………………10
TOTAL 100

deadsoviets:

A template I made for my color wheel assignment.

OH MY GOD DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS?

NOPE YOU DON’T.