I am excited to add this to my reading list! 🦖-> 🦅🦆🦜
Systematic review finds resource overlap but few direct effects of honey bees on wild bees www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Osmia are beautiful bees!
Managed honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies have expanded globally, while wild bee populations continue to decline, raising concerns about interspecific food competition. We systematically revie...
A male #Osmia tersula having a rest in a nesting tube. Believe it or not, we had a light snow fall this morning.
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A great way to end #worldbeeday! At present there are 1039 bee species/subspecies that have been documented from Canada. It takes a while to track down literature records and the specimens, and to review the taxonomy and nomenclature being used, but it sure is worthwhile! #bees #beesofcanada 🐝
One of our most common spring flying #bees in #Saskatchewan, Andrena milwaukeensis is also one of our most #beautiful, with both the female (first two images) and female (last two images) with fox red hair. #beesofcanada #macrophotography
A side by side comparison of the #bumblebees #Bombus ternarius and huntii. Do you see that the latter has what looks like a mite attached to its body? #beesofcanada
We are excited about our new #research and #collections facility that is in works! www.ctvnews.ca/regina/artic...
Though we are still waiting for snow to disappear in much of Saskatchewan, there is some promise of things to come with this Polistes dominula which somehow emerged into our house. I hope to release it outside as soon as things warm up enough! They are beautiful though!
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Life in the Last Ice Age, as Told by Squirrel Scat
Ancient DNA, preserved for 700,000 years in ground squirrel poop, offers a new view of Pleistocene ecology
by @moiradonovan.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/life-in-the-...
A former warehouse in Regina will become the Royal Saskatchewan Museum’s new research, exhibits, and collections facility.
