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The South End Daily Bee
@msjessegray.bsky.social
*Bees on hiatus; returning end Oct*

Documenting the native bees in my small urban yarden

Rewilding as anticapitalist resistance

Snuneymuxw Territory
South End, Nanaimo
www.jessegray.ca
Green metallic sweat bee males’ main job seems to be annoying other bees into leaving ‘their’ territory

Poor leafcutter lady never gets a moment’s peace

#beesbehavingbadly #dailybee #bcnativebees #nativebees #pollinatorgarden #urbangardening #vancouverisland
September 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
These ladies never seem to catch a break

Female Leafcutter ambushed by male Leafcutter hoping to create some
baby Leafcutters

Megachile on Helianthus maximilliani

#dailybee #bcnativebees #pollinators #nativebees #leafcutterbees #nanaimo #urbangardening
September 6, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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
August 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM