I put 3 frames of bees, brood, queen cells, and food into the green nuc. 1 frame from the Center hive and 2 from the West hive. I cleaned up the queen cells in both those hives but I didn't see a queen in either just brood. The West hive that 'swarmed' seemed to have a full hive of bees so I think they must of not actually swarmed. Maybe just chased a virgin queen to a branch then lost her.
Probably more than a dozen queen cells removed from both those hives.
Nothing fancy, but thought y'all might like watching a little native desert bee work in its home under a rock... it's too adorable
https://loops.video/v/7WEVbd_LHH
Edit* think it's a petalcutter bee
It’s #Friday folks.
Have the best #weekend you can.
You know the drill:
Be #kind
Be #gentle
Be #true
Be like #bees
Wanna save native wild bees?
Keep #flowers not hives.
Wanna save democracy?
Keep judges not fascists.
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 101
Bees 101:
A reminder as some don’t get this no matter how many times it’s said:
NOT ALL BEES ARE HONEY BEES.
The honey bee is just 1 of over 100 species of bee in Ireland, is essentially domesticated and NOT under threat.
Do I get a raising queens badge or something when the queen cell that got removed hatches?
I saw bee messing around by the queen cells after I came back from sting triage then looked again and noticed it was a queen. It fell off the top of the hive, got caught up in a couple of spiderwebs under the other hive, then fell to the ground where I caught it.
I marked her and put her in the 1st nuc.
Can you find the pure green sweat bee? #SweatBee #halictidae #augochlora #bee #bees #insects #log #tree #nature
#Bees #Spiders #Plants #HousePlants #photography
A few images from today - a 3mm spider taken with a x10 magnification lens, a female tawny mining bee, our lipstick plant flowering and our orchid flowering again !
We noticed a solitary bee looking for a nest in the side of the Wendy shed, so we've bodged together a hotel for them. Hopefully will be good.
I fully checked my East hive this afternoon. Found a capped swarm cell or two, moved that frame and bees into a nuc. I also put in a bunch of bees that fell off the top box when I was putting it back on. Acted like nurse bees, they didn't want to fly. Then I opened up the Center hive until I found a frame with brood and bees plus another capped queen cell and moved that too the nuc too. That hive also had a piping queen in it. Nuc placed between the two hives.
Late?
Of course.
Around these parts this is actually yesterday’s fact!
Still a good one though.
Want #bees
Grow #flowers.
And more flowers.
And more flowers.
And even more flowers.
From organic/untreated seed.
Simple.
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 100
A #bumblebee colony develops over several months (Spring to Autumn). Most plants bloom for a few weeks.
So a colony needs multiple plant/crop species blooming in succession to successfully complete the life cycle.
The burrowing bees are so cute. They'll sit right at the entrance of their holes and, when you pass by, immediately retreat. However if you wait patiently they'll come back up again.
I thought I also saw immense bees buzzing around, but they turned out to be furry scarab beetles of some kind!
#InverteFest #bugstodon #insects #bees #beetles #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Colletidae? #Coleoptera #Scarabaeidae
There has been a lot of bee activity at the bait hive this morning. When I first looked for the swarm up in the tree I thought it was gone but then I spotted it later but it seemed like maybe it was smaller. The branch wasn't bent down as much. Seems sorta like the bee swarm didn't have a plan or maybe they had found a migratory hive that was empty and it moved overnight. They're 50 feet, 15 meters, up in a tree so not much I can do about that.
Today we saw our first Ashy Mining Bee (we think) 
There were loads of them zipping about on the woodland floor and getting into scuffles. So cute!
Tiny wild bee tucks into flower to take a break
She was busy collecting pollen from the California poppy on an overcast morning
Birds, bees and tulips
Spring's bounty of rebirth launched
Nature's bloom orgy
#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Spring #Birds #Bees #Trees #Nature #Rebirth #BirdsAndBees #Flowers #Orgy #Bloom #Yellow #Tulips
April 24, 2025
I prefer to have a species identification on the photographs I post, but this one is more of a PSA: take lots of pics and don't throw any away, because you never what angle an expert on iNaturalist or BugGuide might need to make the call. I *think* this might be Ceratina calcarata (a carpenter bee), but it turns out one of the diagnostic characters is a triangular swelling on the hind femur, something (of course) I didn't know at the time. A frame that I'd normally trash (right pic) shows it. #inaturalist #bugguide #bees #dandelion #taxonomy #insects #macrophotography
Solitary bees don’t live in hives — they nest alone, often in hollow stems or holes in wood.
Bee hotels give these vital pollinators a safe place to rest and raise their young. No stings, no swarms — just hard-working, gentle creatures helping your garden thrive.
A simple structure like this can support dozens of native bee species. Build one. Hang it up. Let nature do the rest.
#wildislands #bees #island pollinators
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