A large ginger and black Tree Bumblebee feeding inside a purple crocus flower.
A queen Tree Bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) feeding inside a crocus in an Upshire garden today. #EssexWildlife #UKBees
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Aster, an autumn flowering plant, usually dying off by now, but late flowering this year, and looking good.
Supposedly to support late hibernating insects.
#wildlifeinaction
#fascinatingnature
#UKpollinators
#UKbees
#UKinvertebrates
#UKbutterflies
#UKplants
#seasonsoftheyear
#autumn
#autumncolours
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A Common Carder Bee with a bright orange thorax on a White Dead-nettle leaf.
A nice bright Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum) on a White Dead-nettle leaf at Fishers Green, Essex a few days ago. #EssexWildlife #UKBees #LeeValleyWildlife
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Honeycomb attached to yew branches in the open
What appears to be 3 'layers' of honeycomb, attached to the top of the yew hedge outside of our apartment. In the open
Can't say I've ever seen this before. Does anyone have any info on this occurring? And which species it might have been made from
#bees
#ukbees
#@ecorecord.bsky.social
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Grey and black bee on drain cover
Grey and black bee on drain cover
Grey and black bee on drain cover
Grey and black bee on drain cover
Nice to see a sharp-tailed bee (Coelioxys) in Upshire today, even though not possible to identify to species. #EssexWildlife #UKBees
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Having lost all my masonry bees to the woodpeckers, it's great to see the leaf cutters using the house. Hopefully, some of them will survive #bees #leafcutterbees #insects #wildlifegarden #ukbees
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Large-headed Resin #Bee, Heriades truncorum, moving in to the bee hotel at Lackford Lakes #Suffolk this afternoon. One of the reserve's specialities. #SolitaryBees #UKBees
@suffolkwildlife.bsky.social
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Orange-vented Mason Bee (Osmia leaiana, female) in the garden, Leeds UK. May 2025.
#orangeventedmasonbee #osmialeaiana #solitarybees #ukbees #macrophotograph
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Wood-carving Leafcutter Bee (Megachile ligniseca, male) in my garden, Leeds UK. May 2025.
I took this photo with my iPhone 7+
#woodcarvingleafcutterbee #Megachileligniseca #solitarybees #ukbees #leafcutterbee #beesseenin2025
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A newly hatched Wood-carving Leafcutter Bee (Megachile ligniseca, male) in my garden, Leeds UK. May 2025.
#woodcarvingleafcutterbee #Megachileligniseca #solitarybees #ukbees #leafcutterbee #beesseenin2025
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UK Bee experts!!! Any idea of an ID on this little bee that's making use of a hole in my window frame?
Carder Bee?
#Bees #UKInsects #UKBees
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Red Mason Beebies! (Osmia bicornis) recently laid in the garden, Leeds UK. May 2025.
#redmasonbee #osmiabicornis #ukbees #solitarybees #bees
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Blue Mason Bee (Osmia caerulescens, male) in the garden, Leeds UK. May 2025.
I've never had Blue Masons nesting in the garden before โ such a lovely surprise! ๐
#Osmiacaerulescens #bluemasonbee #nikonphotography #solitarybees #ukbees #macrophotography #bees
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Red-tailed Bumblebee: large black furry bee with reddish rear end on yellow dandylion flower.
A Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) on a dandylion at Langdon hills CP, Essex a few days ago. #UKBees #EssexWildlife
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I have got #MiningBees #UKBees #Bees #UKInsects #Pollinators #NoMowMay over the past few years has paid off. www.youtube.com/shorts/PTYUo...
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Tawny Mining Bee: a rather worn orangey furry bee with a black head sitting on a trackway.
A rather worn Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva) seen in Waltham Abbey, Essex two days ago. #EssexWildlife #UKBees
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#UKWildlife, #UKNature , #UKInvertebrates , #Wildlife, #Nature , #Invertebrates , #UKBees , #Bees, #UKInsects , #Insects
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๐๐ฌ๐ง"โUnprecedentedโ sightings of Asian hornets raise fears for UK bees" #AsianHornets #UKBees
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Bee-fly, Dark Edged
#fascinatingnature
#UKbees
#UKbugs
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#UKnature
#UKNaturePhotography
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Spotted these in the garden!
Ashy mining bees ๐ are one of the first bees to emerge in spring, making them important early-season pollinators.
#AshyMiningBee #AndrenaCineraria #SolitaryBees #BeeFriendly #Pollinators #SpringBees #WildlifePhotography #UKBees #SaveTheBees #GardenWildlife
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Hanging out with one of our rarest mining bees, the grey-backed mining bee, in Dungeness today. #ukbees
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A Grey-patched Mining Bee: a fluffy brown bee on a patch of green leaves.
A rather smart Grey-patched Mining Bee (Andrena nitida) in Waltham Abbey, Essex last week. #EssexWildlife #UKBees
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Yeovil Riverside Walk this morning, Common Carder & Tapered Drone Fly, Eristalis pertinax, strangely my 1st pic of one there @somersetwt.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social #hoverflies #droneflies #bumblebees #ukinsects #ukbees #ukwildlife
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Only got a brief time to watch the bees today,but the garden was busy. First Red Mason bee, male, seems like lots spotted today. And my second nomad sp. this year, Goodenโs Nomad, I have seen Buffish and Chocolate ming bees already this year that are its host. #ukbees #ukinsects
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Marshamโs Nomad Bee (I think, identification isnโt that straightforward)
Marshamโs Nomad Bee
Marshamโs Nomad Bee - the split yellow spots on tergite 2 separated with black
Nomad Bees - I have a fondness for Nomad Bees. I went for most of my life not noticing them, but now I know what to look for I see them quite frequently.
Nomads are cleptoparasites of other bees, laying their eggs in their nests.
This is a Marshamโs Nomad Bee in my garden at lunchtime.
#UKBees
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Hairy-footed Flower Bee: a black furry bee with red legs sitting on a mossy wall.
#SignsOfSpring A female Hairy-footed Flower Bee (Anthophora plumipes) sitting on a wall in weak sunshine in Waltham Abbey, Essex today. #EssexWildlife #UKBees
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A Buff-tailed Bumblebee: a black and yellow striped furry bee on a blue flower in front of a stone wall.
A nice surprise to see a worker Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) in front of Clacton pier, Essex this afternoon, in the almost warm winter sunshine. #UKBees #EssexWildlife
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Davies' Colletes Plasterer Bee (Colletes daviesanus, male) in my Leeds garden. July 2024.
#daviescolletes #colletesdaviesanus #plastererbee #solitarybees #ukbees #macrophotography
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Wood-carving Leafcutter Bee (Megachile ligniseca, male) in my Leeds garden, June 2024.
I miss the bees ๐ฅบ
#woodcarvingleafcutterbee #Megachileligniseca #solitarybees #ukbees #macrophotography #leafcutterbee #beesseenin2024 #excellent_wildlife #insect_on_my_finger
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It's been another drab day, though a sole honeybee food make a very brief visit to the lavender, which by now has no flowers.
This photo is from my archives, and not featuring lavender plants.
#fascinatingnature
#UKnature
#UKpollinators
#UKbees
#UKwildlife
#UKwildlifephotography
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