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New favorite #pollinator just dropped: #Denticulate #Longhorn #Bee! Evidently, these little suckers find #Ironweeds irresistible.
#NativeBees #Oklahoma #wildlife
#Melissodes #denticulatus
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#biodiversity #KillYourLawn
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“Sleeping near the enemy?” Fuzzy male #Melissodes #bees roost each nite on prairie grasses. I’ve noted another species roosting nearby. I think they may be #Triepeolus which are kleptoparasites on Melissodes! Strange bedfellows, indeed!
“Boy bees are just hanging” Sleeping male #Melissodes #bees are back! Batches of boy bees will bunk on the same blades of grass, night after night until sometime in August. Assembling by ca. 7 pm they take off between 7 & 8 am. Females sleep nestled in burrows.
Ever tried to photograph these #Usain Bolts of the bee world, #Melissodes agilis? This image, "Catch Me If You Can," won the best #ESA image at the 63rd North Central Insect Photography Salon. The flower: Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. #BugSquad https://t.co/fjfzW83U7W
Melissodes comptoides. One of the big long-horns. It and M. communis are often confused, but with patience and and I for separating pitting patterns on the thorax and abdomen it can be done. #bees #melissodes #bee
Pollen, pollen, pollen, #pollen, on a #Melissodes desponsa...a species usually associated with #Thistles so this may well be thistle pollen. Note that while bees may carry loads of pollen on their legs...pollen usually gathers loosely all over the bee and that's what plants get
Dasypotda hirtipes - The Netherlands. Fact: bee genera inhabiting western Europe almost all can be found in North America. There are exceptions and Dasypoda is one of them. I like to think of the fluffy #Dasypoda genus as a Euro replacements for the #Melissodes they don't have
“Just like one of the boys”. After a tiring work week, I was ready to hit the hay early…then I spotted a snoozy group of #Melissodes male #bees gripping grass. I couldn’t resist taking pictures & you know they must love the flashes of this adoring paparazzo!
“Just hang on to what you got…”. Close up view of a solitary bee male perched at the top of a blade of grass. For weeks a group of #Melissodes male #bees have used the same plant for communal sleep. They arrive by ca. 5-6 p.m. and are gone by ca. 7-8 a.m. What a life!
All settled in for the night! While the #Melissodes male #bees are slow to settle in, once it's dark they are excellent subjects. If you look closely, you may even see some spots where the grip of their mouthparts damaged the grass blade from a prior night of holding tight.
From the tip of Florida comes #Melissodes communis. As a whole, Melissodes is almost always a #composite specialist of some kind, some highly specialized on one #genus and a few branching out to the delights of other non-composite #flower groups.
Shhhh!...These bachelor bees are catching some ZZZ’s. Male longhorn #bees, genus #Melissodes, gather to sleep each night w/ other males perched on vegetation which they grasp w/ their mouthparts. For ca. 15 yrs, I can count on some to use the same iris plant each summer.
It's National Pollinator Week, and male longhorned bees are targeting a Gulf Fritilliary. #Melissodes agilis vs. #.Agraulis vanillae #BugSquad https://t.co/8kDd1B5OG8
It's National Pollinator Week, and male longhorned bees are targeting a Gulf Fritilliary. #Melissodes agilis vs. #.Agraulis vanillae #BugSquad https://t.co/0difhnYLJW
It's the beginning of #National Pollinator Week! Here a male longhorned bee, #Melissodes agilis, awakens from a night of sleeping on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. Let's roll! It's ready to start the day! #BugSquad https://t.co/pM1YhlCRQ4
It's the beginning of #National Pollinator Week! Here a male longhorned bee, #Melissodes agilis, awakens from a night of sleeping on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. Let's roll! It's ready to start the day! #BugSquad https://t.co/bnq15MHIRN
Sleep well boys!
A cluster of male #Melissodes #bees in my #Florida native garden. These bees typically start settling down between 4 and 6 pm and will start waking up once the sun hits them in the morning.
Florida is home to more than 300 bee species. Who’s in your garden?
Boys night out sleepover! #Melissodes #bees are solitary & ground nesting. Females spend the night in underground burrows while the males aggregate on plant stems or in flower heads. These males like a particular #coneflower in my yard, this is at least their 3rd nite here.
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