Save Bees

Bees can bee playful! Bees can learn from one another. Bees sleep and likely dream... of flowers? Bees are thinking, feeling creatures, akin to us. 💛🐝✨

[Save Bees @savebees]

Bees ask for so little: a variety of seasonal flowers, undisturbed nesting sites (in soil, under leaves, and in stems and logs), a relatively poison-free life, a generally predictable climate. Helping pollinators helps so many other plants and critters 💛

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[Oliver C Wright @OW_Photography]

Maybe the find of the Bulgaria trip? So lucky to find a bee and wasp roosting on the same perch!

Going to find the individual species (if any knows please let me know)

A very tricky field stack of 69 images with Canon R5ii and MP-E. Both subjects are small!

With @Greenwings

[Save Bees @savebees]

@drseanmullen Indeed so here too

[Save Bees @savebees]

@JoelMCurzon …Yeah, neat you see. So what happens is you sit and you watch it and then everything appears to swirl upwards, out of the plug hole and fill the bath… amazing.

Arthur Dent: And that’s how the universe began?

Ford Prefect: No. But it’s a marvellous way to relax.”

[Save Bees @savebees]

@JoelMCurzon …you pull the plug out and it all just twirls down out of the plug hole… but the thing is… No, the clever thing is that you film it happening. You get a movie camera from somewhere and actually film it. But then you thread the film in the projector backwards...

[Oliver C Wright @OW_Photography]

Incredible views of black veined white butterflies here in NW Bulgaria this morning! There’s 1000’s of them everywhere. Here with @Greenwings Wildlife Tours. Lots of other interesting subjects too :)

[Hella Bee Nerd @sfbaybees]

Longhorn bee season is slowing down but if you look carefully you can still see groups of males settling in for togetherness sleepy time in the evening. 😴 [Alameda, CA 6-18-26] #bees #nativebees

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Good news! After decades of ignoring rampant environmental crime on the Roding, @EnvAgency has finally decided to act.

Bad news! It’s not against Thames Water for illegally dumping billions of litres of sewage in the Roding, or the waste criminals who have dumped thousands of tonnes of rubbish on its banks, but against myself & a small volunteer charity for… restoring a river without a permit!

Within a week of the magnificent work of River Roding Trust volunteers completing the arduous work of restoring 250 metres of the Aldersbrook this winter, EA investigators had been down to the site and rattled off a letter threatening us with prosecution for doing the work without a permit. This is despite the fact that the Trust have repeatedly asked the EA to do this vital work on the Aldersbrook themselves & they have refused. It is also despite the fact that they have not investigated the huge illegal sewage outlet on the Cranbrook a few hundred metres away, which illegally discharges 750,000,000 litres of raw sewage straight into the River Roding every year.

[Oliver C Wright @OW_Photography]

Today I found a little family of grasshoppers :)

I’m sure they are not really a family but that’s what it looked like!

Btw anyone know the species? Found in Yorkshire, UK

[Save Bees @savebees]

Interesting that some folks are quick to think of latest AIs as ‘minds’, whilst still thinking little of likely intelligence of insects or of plants.

[Oliver C Wright @OW_Photography]

Exceptional morning today! 3:45am start and headed to site before sunrise. Found scores of marbled white (with dew!) butterflies and some other butterfly species. Was also treated to barn owl, kestrel, deer…

Best nature morning I’ve had this year and no one else there!

[Save Bees @savebees]

Such high-energy on a searingly hot June day… how they quiver so when alighting, as though eager to keep their flight muscles moving!

(Oregon Swallowtail feeding on Armenian aka Himalayan blackberry… my personal nemesis, the blackberry that is, oh my goodness what a plant)

[Save Bees @savebees]

Another daisy friend from this morning, though not nearly so fluffy!

[Save Bees @savebees]

Who says beetles can’t be pollinators too? Such fluff! (Checkered Beetle)

[Prof Duncan Westbury @DuncanWestbury]

Question: What’s the link? Answer: You feed the bees & they feed you. Simple.

[Save Bees @savebees]

@LyleLewis__Real Last year I went on a bird walk with a local conservation agency. Saw no birds (though we did hear a few). Came back home and watched a spirited battle between a bald eagle and osprey (the latter succeeding in chasing off the bald eagle, assumedly from near their nest)!

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The most advanced technologies in the world are trees, mycelium networks, river systems, and entire ecosystems. I’m personally tired of idolizing human made technology that destroys the very systems that actually sustain life and hold real wisdom.

[Carim Nahaboo @CNahaboo]

A full spectrum of insects! Showcasing their natural colours, this is a selection of my ink & coloured pencil illustrations. Available to order as a limited edition art print: https://t.co/28qMVtOzzV

[Lyle Lewis @LyleLewis__Real]

Imagine a world where environmental destruction isn’t a problem.
It’s a business opportunity.
https://t.co/WkQWpKRmzV

[Save Bees @savebees]

Such a pretty garden visitor (those fluffy orange leg tufts!!) yesterday evening (Macculloch’s Forestry Moth)