#melissodes

6 months ago

Wet wet bee 📸 Olympus 90mm ISO200 f11 1/250

Soaked male 2-spotted longhorn bee
(Melissodes bimaculatus)

Post evening shower
July 24th, 2025 in Chicago ☮️

#macro #photography #native #bees #flowers #Melissodes #pollinators #bloomscrolling #insects #bugs #art #ColorADay #YellowThu #smArtist #condensation #AbstractAug #flowers #eastcoastkin 🐝

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6 months ago

I think about what it might be like to operate at this speed & live for only a couple weeks

Their world is queererer than we can suppose, etc

Melissodes/long-horned bee lady on Grindelia

#dailybee #bcnativebees #nativebees #nativepollinators #nativeplants #grindelia #melissodes #vancouverisland

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6 months ago

Less than 3 seconds from take off. 📸 Olympus OM-3 90mm ISO200 f13 1/250

Male dark-veined longhorn bee
(Melissodes trinodis)

shakes water from itself on the tip of a tiger lilly yesterday morning in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood.

#macro #photography #native #bees #melissodes #nature #pollinators #flowers #gardens #gardening #art #macroMonday #eastCoastKin

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6 months ago

A brownish bee is inside a bright yellow flower; she has her back to us, looking almost like she’s standing up on her back legs, and she has her front 4 legs extended up in the air

I save pics like this in an album called ‘starfish’

Lady long-horned bee/Melissodes in Grindelia/gumweed, 2024

#dailybee #bcnativebees #nativebees #nativeplants #grindelia #melissodes #longhornedbee #vancouverisland

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6 months ago

A blonde & brown fluffy bee is half hidden in a yellow flower- she appears to be peeking at the camera over the edge of a petal with one large blue & grey spotted eye.

I feel like half my photos are bees peeking out over the top of flowers, judging me for being a creep

Long-horned bee/Melissodes lady on Grindelia

#dailybee #bcnativebees #melissodes #longhornedbee #grindelia #nativeplants #pollinators #nativebees #nativebeesnothoneybees

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7 months ago

A fuzzy bee is perched in the yellow centre of a purple aster flower. She has one large spotted blue eye facing the camera and is sporting large yellow pollen pants on her rear legs.

Melissodes eyes are so mesmerizing

Female long-horned bee on native aster

#bcnativebees #dailybee #melissodes #longhornedbee #pnwnativeplants #douglasaster

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7 months ago

Holding a tiny dead bee in the palm of my (old white lady) hand. She is mostly brown and fuzzy, with huge fluffy back legs that look like fun fur leg warmers.

I don’t collect specimens but do keep any bees I find who have already died

This tiny lady Melissodes was in a Grindelia blossom on the estuary & is such a beautiful little thing

July 26.25
Snuneymuxw Territory
#dailybee #bcnativebees #melissodes #longhornedbee #nativebees #vancouverislandbees

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7 months ago

A large striped bee with orange pollen pants is foraging on one of half a dozen small purple aster flowers, while a smaller green & yellow bee is banking in mid-air above her

A large striped bee with orange pollen pants is foraging on a small purple aster flower, while a smaller green & yellow bee is diving through the air towards her

A large striped bee with orange pollen pants is foraging on one of half a dozen small purple aster flowers, while a smaller green & yellow bee is diving right at her from above

A small green & yellow bee has just crashed into a larger striped bee with orange pollen pants who was in the middle of foraging in a clump of a small purple aster flowers. Another of the green & yellow bees is patrolling the air above them.

Tonight it’s a four-square storyboard featuring Agapostemon males & their aerial harassment of this poor lady Melissodes who’s just trying to finish her shift already

Green metallic sweat bee bonking Long-horned lady on Douglas aster

#dailybee #bcnativebees #nativeplants #agapostemon #melissodes

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@dremlichtenberg.bsky.social

7 months ago

A bee perched on a cluster of white flowers in a beam of sunlight against a dark background. She is extremely fluffy with tufts of blonde fur and has a large blueish-grey eye that appears to be looking right into the camera. She is also sporting a thick, sunshine yellow pair of pollen pants on her back legs.

Melissodes on yarrow

Seems unfair they’re called long-horned bees after the males when the ladies are such stunners

July 17.25
Snuneymuxw Territory
South End, Nanaimo

#melissodes #bcnativebees #dailybee #yarrow #achillea #longhornedbee #nativebees

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Elinor Lichtenberg

7 months ago

Two black male bees sleeping on a prickly lettuce leaf

These #Melissodes bimaculatus males went to bed around 7pm a few weeks ago in Denton, TX, about two hours before sundown.

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8 months ago

9x16 📸 Olympus 90mm ISO200 f11 1/250

Verticality
Series’ end
Two-spotted longhorn bee (4/4)
(Melissodes bimaculatus)

on butterfly milkweed
7-6-25

#westRidgeNaturePark #macro #photography #native #bees #flowers #milkweed #Melissodes #pollinators #bloomscrolling #insects #bugs #art #nature #chicago #eastCoastKin #insectThursday

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8 months ago

A goofy looking bee is drinking nectar in the bottom of a yellow composite flower. He’s got large blue eyes, tufts of fur on his body spotted with clumps of pollen, and under a bushy blonde mustache his tongue is extended into the flower below. Most striking of all are his disproportionately long antennae sticking into the air, looking like they belong to a much larger bee.

Mr “I thought I ordered the large (antennae)” Melissodes

On Grindelia, my favourite plant/all around weirdo

#dailybee #bcnativebees #melissodes #grindelia #longhornedbees

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8 months ago

Her world 1 📸 Olympus 90mm ISO200 f11 1/250

Horizontallity
Two-spotted longhorn bee (3/4)
(Melissodes bimaculatus)

on butterfly milkweed
7-6-25

#westRidgeNaturePark #macro #photography #native #bees #flowers #milkweed #Melissodes #pollinators #bloomscrolling #insects #bugs #art #nature #chicago #ColorADay #RedWed #eastCoastKin

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8 months ago

Lateral 📸 Olympus 90mm ISO200 f11 1/250

Blue-eyes & white leg warmers
2-spotted longhorn bee (2/4)
(Melissodes bimaculatus)

on butterfly milkweed
7-6-25

#westRidgeNaturePark #macro #photography #native #bees #flowers #milkweed #Melissodes #pollinators #bloomscrolling #insects #bugs #art #ColorADay #BlueTue #eastCoastKin #nature #chicago

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8 months ago

A roundish fluffy bee standing at the bottom of a yellow composite flower collecting pollen. She has large blue eyes, white fur on her face, and her back leg hairs are stuffed with bright orange pollen.

Lady long-horned bees collecting pollen in the Grindelia to add to her already impressive pantaloons.

Melissodes females are some of my favourite bees, they just look like they’d give a great cuddle.

July 6.25
#bcnativebees #melissodes #dailybee #longhornedbee #grindelia #nanaimo

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8 months ago

Tête-à-tête 📸 Olympus 90mm ISO200 f11 1/250

Two-spotted longhorn bee (1/4)
(Melissodes bimaculatus)

pollinating butterfly milkweed
yesterday in Chicago
#westRidgeNaturePark

#macro #photography #native #bees #flowers #milkweed #Melissodes #pollinators #bloomscrolling #insects #bugs #art #macroMonday #eastCoastKin #nature #chicago #longhorns

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8 months ago

Two bees and a bright orange composite flower. One bee is at the bottom of the flower drinking nectar and the other is approaching by air. They both have striped abdomens and absurdly long antennae.

Long-horned dudes cruise around this gumweed & smash into any bees they don’t like (aka aren’t lady bees of their kind).

Here’s 2 taking a quick nectar break before the next round.

Melissodes on Grindelia.
#dailybee #bcnativebees #melissodes #grindeliastricta #longhornedbees

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8 months ago

In the bottom of the yellow composite flower two bees are foraging. They are dark with whitish-cream fur and blue eyes. The female bee on the right has two of her legs extended out to prevent the male beside her from getting too close.

One of my favourite flowers w/ some of my favourite bees.

Melissodes (long-horned) bees on Grindelia. Male L, female R.

They like their personal space & are often seen keeping other bees at leg’s distance.

#dailybee #bcnativebees #melissodes #grindelia

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Loki the cat

@estuary.us

8 months ago

Alt for all four photos: A small bee that is black with abundant white hairs on its legs, a noticeable yellow "mustache on the front of its face, nearly black, oval eyes and very long antennae. Wings are dark brown and folded at rest above its abdomen. Each black abdominal tergite is accented with a fringe of white hair. Scattered white hairs are also visible on the thorax and sides of the head, framing the eyes. Each photo shows the bee at a different angle: front, top, side and back.

Sleeping Melissodes.

I found a male Melissodes resting on a Common Madia flower in the pollinator garden this morning.

When the sun comes out he will be a blur in front of my camera.

June 24, 2025. Thousand Oaks, California.

#bee #invertebrate #Melissodes #conservation #pollinators #socal

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1 year ago

Lateral view at tippy top of sunflower petal.

Male dark-veined longhorn bee II
(Melissodes trinodis) 🐝

Side view, August 2024, on a backyard sunflower.

#nativeBees #longhorn #melissodes #bees #Macro #macroPhotography #insects #photography #chicago #nature #naturePhotography #sunflowers #gardens #gardening #longhornBees #bugs #pollinators

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1 year ago

Male dark-veined longhorn bee (Melissodes trinodis) 🐝

Late August 2024, on a backyard sunflower.

#nativeBees #longhorn #melissodes #bees #Macro #macroPhotography #insects #photography #chicago #nature #naturePhotography #sunflowers #gardens #gardening #longhornBees #bugs #native #pollinators

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1 year ago

Male denticulate longhorn bee
(Melissodes denticulatus)

On Ironweed flower
Late August in Chicago

#pollinators #bees #longhornbees #melissodes #flowers #ironweed #nature #naturalist #macro #photography #gardening #gardens #nativeBees #chicagoparks #communitygardens #insects #bugs #summer 🐝 🌼

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1 year ago

Keep those antennae clean!

Male dark-veined longhorn bee / sunflower

Melissodes trinodis in July, backyard again

Hope Monday’s copacetic

#nativeBees #bees #longhornBees #macro #photography #nature #handHeld #pollinators #sunflowers #flowers #garden #gardening #chicago #entymology #melissodes

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1 year ago

Female dark-veined longhorn bee / crimson sunflower

(Melissodes trinodis)

She’s enjoying a flower grown from a seed in a few feet of earth between porch & parking pad. 🥰

Late August in Chicago.

#nativeBees #Bees #nature #flowers #pollinators #gardens #gardening #macro #photography #melissodes 🐝

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