Nat
@bugs-are-nice.bsky.social
Bugs and fungi photos.🐞🍄 I love bees! 🐝 Environmental science masters student. Doing art occasionally. I also enjoy electronics and tech. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
🐝 Today I was delighted to find what I thought was a broken-belted bumblebee (b.soroeensis).
But no, upon closer inspection, the break is due to a loss of yellow hairs, not the addition of black ones, and the white tail band is missing. This is the Early bumblebee (b.pratorum). #bee #bees
But no, upon closer inspection, the break is due to a loss of yellow hairs, not the addition of black ones, and the white tail band is missing. This is the Early bumblebee (b.pratorum). #bee #bees
April 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Earthstar, Geastrum fungus #fungi #fungifriends
March 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Earthstar, Geastrum fungus #fungi #fungifriends
Seedling update! Mostly everything has geminated including corncockle, chicory, self-heal, chives, coreopsis, yarrow, cardamine, valerian and musk mallow... in that order.
What hasn't germinated is violets, red-dead nettle, Canterbury bells aconitum and lungwart.
What hasn't germinated is violets, red-dead nettle, Canterbury bells aconitum and lungwart.
March 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Seedling update! Mostly everything has geminated including corncockle, chicory, self-heal, chives, coreopsis, yarrow, cardamine, valerian and musk mallow... in that order.
What hasn't germinated is violets, red-dead nettle, Canterbury bells aconitum and lungwart.
What hasn't germinated is violets, red-dead nettle, Canterbury bells aconitum and lungwart.
Putting the bees out for the spring. These are Andrena Scotia. The hawthorn bee, and they should emerge late this month or next month. #bees
March 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Putting the bees out for the spring. These are Andrena Scotia. The hawthorn bee, and they should emerge late this month or next month. #bees
Such an adorable talk this was: Earwigs don't go back to earwig hotels because of the quality, but instead if an earwig is currently happy inside and releasing pheromones ie, "currently giving it a good review" others in range will visit it. 😂
February 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Such an adorable talk this was: Earwigs don't go back to earwig hotels because of the quality, but instead if an earwig is currently happy inside and releasing pheromones ie, "currently giving it a good review" others in range will visit it. 😂
Some of my favourite moments from Lars's talk yesterday: Finding out that bees play and have emotional states. That they can imagine the shape of objects they have felt but not seen. Learning their brains are more fine, complex and specialized than human ones, so they are smart despite their size.
February 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Some of my favourite moments from Lars's talk yesterday: Finding out that bees play and have emotional states. That they can imagine the shape of objects they have felt but not seen. Learning their brains are more fine, complex and specialized than human ones, so they are smart despite their size.
Have started the seedlings off early for the year indoors. I am adding to the native plants with cuckoo flower, corncockle which was almost extinct in the UK in 2014, pulsatilla, red dead-nettle, soapwart, yarrow, chicory(?), pulmonaria or lungwart, and monkshood or aconitum napellus.
February 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Have started the seedlings off early for the year indoors. I am adding to the native plants with cuckoo flower, corncockle which was almost extinct in the UK in 2014, pulsatilla, red dead-nettle, soapwart, yarrow, chicory(?), pulmonaria or lungwart, and monkshood or aconitum napellus.
“The sun poured out light on flooded waters, on purple-side thickets of alder, and celandines under them….as if all was now to be well.”
From E. Thomas, In Pursuit of Spring.
www.edwardthomaspoetryplaces.com/post/celandine
From E. Thomas, In Pursuit of Spring.
www.edwardthomaspoetryplaces.com/post/celandine
February 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
“The sun poured out light on flooded waters, on purple-side thickets of alder, and celandines under them….as if all was now to be well.”
From E. Thomas, In Pursuit of Spring.
www.edwardthomaspoetryplaces.com/post/celandine
From E. Thomas, In Pursuit of Spring.
www.edwardthomaspoetryplaces.com/post/celandine
I did some sculpting and 3D printing and made a Blahaj shower thing using OnShape and Meshmixer. #blahaj #3Dprinting
January 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I did some sculpting and 3D printing and made a Blahaj shower thing using OnShape and Meshmixer. #blahaj #3Dprinting
