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Bee Photography Thread

Started By ConcordAntman , Jun 14 2020 2:35 AM

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#181 Offline ANTdrew - Posted April 14 2025 - 1:25 PM

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Today I found this huge Anthophora bee nesting site. There were hundreds of nests with bees coming in and out to stock their brood cells.

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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#182 Offline MyrmecologyMaven - Posted April 14 2025 - 4:17 PM

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A Tripartite Sweat Bee I came across on 4/6/25 while I was visiting some vineyards in San Luis Obispo. 

 

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#183 Offline OwlThatLikesAnts - Posted April 15 2025 - 7:09 AM

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A Tripartite Sweat Bee I came across on 4/6/25 while I was visiting some vineyards in San Luis Obispo. 

 

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I love sweat bees, used to make refuges for them when it rains, it actually worked!


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Currently keeping:

 

1x Formica subsericea, 35-40 workers +  BIG brood pile + 10 pupa

1x Crematogaster cerasi, 2 workers + eggs / larva? (pls don't die workers) *1 is trying to die* (I SAID DON’T DIE)

1x Myrmica ruba sp around 10 workers

 

*As you watch your ants march, remember that every thing begins with a small step and continued by diligence and shared dreams*

-A.T (Me)

 

#184 Offline ANTdrew - Posted April 17 2025 - 5:40 PM

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Osmia cornifrons exiting a new bee house I made a few weeks ago.
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#185 Offline L.H - Posted April 20 2025 - 12:44 PM

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Green sweat bee on rotten log
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#186 Offline ANTdrew - Posted April 20 2025 - 4:16 PM

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Agapostemon bee. Nice shot!
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.
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