Take
A
Minute
Yellow
Gorse
Coconut
Aroma
Blue
Sky
Woodpecker
Drumming
Bird
Song
Bees
Humming
What
It
Could
Be
If…
#BeesNotBillionaires
#gorse #birdsong
#woodpecker #wildlife
#earth #wild #bees
Here’s a
#MondayMorningMinute
with #nature here on
The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland.
Take a moment.
Go do some #good.
Have the best week you can.
If you’re not having a good week - tell someone.
And if someone tells you -
Listen.
Really #listen.
#mentalhealth
#wellbeing
No flowers or even much in the way of green plants yet, but this old photo has been in the favs for a while as a reminder.
#BloomScrolling #bees
“If we’re able to disentangle, and to reverse engineer, how nature has solved these challenges… that can be transformative for pausing ageing, human fertility, transport of organs and provide new means of fighting disease.”
Aria's second tranche of directors to focus on areas including bees, plastics and the immune system:
Scientists target queen bees in search of secret to longer life https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/07/scientists-target-queen-bees-in-search-of-secret-to-longer-life #Environment #Worldnews #Wildlife #Science #Insects #Animals #Bees
Fuzzy little punks!
Three days the flowers were blooming and no insects came even though they were swarming the blueberries.
I spent over an hour hand-pollinating this bush this morning and now 3 different species of bees are visiting the flowers.
WERE THEY WATCHING ME???
Habropoda laboriosa, blueberry digger bee
Osmia taurus, tuarus mason bee
Apis mellifera, western honey bee
Join the bee resistance!
You want more #bees or more #billionaires on this planet?
#BeesNotBillionaires
Bees = vital and productive
Billionaires = dispensable and exploitive
Earth’s ecosystem needs bees not billionaires.
You need bees not billionaires.
www.beesnotbillionaires.org
Over a hundred Dunning's mining bees (Andrena dunningi) are back in the front yard again this year! WARNING: Graphic Content #bees #pollinators #insects #Illinois #nature #photography #Spring
Combination incisor, canid, and molar dentation, a single stage stomach, forward facing eyesight with great depth perception and relatively little peripheral vision, bipedal endurance permitting all day and all night hiking if given sufficient water and snack--
We are omnivorous predator-scavengers by nature.
We removed most of the predators from our environment, so we must replace them with our own predatory actions in order to maintain balance in the environment, carefully.
Farmed animals have a population problem. If there is to be an intelligent response to the problem of using too much land, food, and water to grow animals, it will have to include the responsible, gradual reduction in populations until they can be reintroduced to an at least quasi-wild context, and we will have to continue to hunt them on occasion, as needed, or reintroduce/increase the populations of their predators.
Pollinators are more important than ever in such a case; however, the overuse of invasive honeybees has caused a competition problem. The non-natives out-compete the natives largely because they have direct human support. This fuss over "massive bee die-offs" and "devastating results for [unsustainable monoculture] farmers" is manufactured outrage designed to prop up a failed, imbalanced system. If you can't farm sustainably and in balance with the needs of nature, then fuck off and find a different job. I don't care if your grandaddy did it this way.
Finally. Veganism is a post-scarcity ideology. We are not there yet. At least, 95% or more of us aren't. One can abide non-cruelty to animals and humans, but doing so at the cost of their living healthy, libre lives is insufficient at best. To act as if a set of biologically unnecessary dietary restrictions is a Big Moral Issue completely ignores the ethical concerns of minding your own damn business, let alone those of living under capitalism with scarcity.
Howdy folks!
I’m in an early kinda humour.
If you’re enjoying the good weather in your garden/yard/patch keep an eye out for bumblebee queens out and about presently and resist the urge to tidy up. #Nature thrives in messy wild.
#gardens
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 85
Forage Basics 101:
Nectar = Carbohydrates = Sugar = Energy.
Pollen = Protein + Nutrients + Fats.
‘Bees need flowers need bees need flowers need…’
- The Bee Guy
…and you can quote me on that!
#bees
My https://wildbieneundpartner.ch #BeeHotel is running fine now for two weeks: the bees have been busy and already got 3 eggs in the observation drawer and two mudded up tubes, thus likely more there. I guess the rule or thumb is if half the tubes are full one has to buy a bigger hotel? ;)
/cc @colinpurrington #insects #bees #insecthotel
Just another scene from the observation wing of my backyard insect hotel. I don't know whether they turn around after entering or whether they back in. #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #bees #osmia #insects
