New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2025/03/31/remember-the-name/
A brief look at Ashwani Kumar's remarkable IPL debut and a photo gallery.
#cricket #T20 #IPL #IPL2025 #MIvKKR #AshwaniKumar #photography #birds #insects #bees #ladybirds #egret
I am in need of some ideas. I want to make a story about bees dreamlike.
You walk in a super cute meadow, and a bee lands on you. You recognize it as a bee, but it doesn't look like one exactly. What does it looks like?
I was thinking of making them just tiny bears, but it's just cute, not ''weird dreamlike-cute''.
Gimme your best ideas pls
Dotted Bee-fly (Bombylius discolor) in flight today in #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#Nature #Wildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #NatureCommunity #Insect #Insects #Fly #Diptera #Spring
From my latest #photo gallery: 'In Formation' - two bees flying exactly parallel to one another, with a cluster of white flowers seemingly the target.
#photography #nature #insects #SweatBees
#bloomscrolling #flowers #spring #insects #insekten #hummel #plüschmors #Fotomontag
Hach, wie es brummt hier!
At first I thought this the same as yours but this visitor to my garden is more unusual.
This is (unsurprisingly!) a Dotted Bee-fly (Bombylius discolor).
The range is limited but I am in the middle of it.
Xylocopa violacea
Abejorro azul
Volet carpenter bee
UPO, Sevilla (España / Spain)
2025-03-29
Sony A7 IV + Sony 200-600mm + Sony Teleconverter 1.4x
#Aninagin [verb] Tagalog (Filipino) : “To take a closer look at something whose details are difficult to make out”.
"With the intention of arousing one’s curiosity about tiny things that we sometimes take for granted, more than 40 species of #Insects filmed in #Philippines forests reveal themselves to us..."
"Technical note : All animal #Sounds are pure artistic creation, not their real sounds. No #AI was used in any part of the film."
I love that idea!
Seven-spotted ladybugs (coccinella septempunctata) celebrating the upcoming arrival of spring. End of March. Alicante (Spain)
iPhone 15 Pro main camerai + homemade lens for close focusing.
Unas mariquitas de siete puntos (coccinella septempunctata) celebrando la próxima llegada de la primavera.
Siebenfleckige Marienkäfer (Coccinella septempunctata) feiern die Ankunft des Frühlings.
I think the first wasp I saw last year was in around August. This isolated example today was a big surprise.
In bee news, male Osmia are showing up at the insect hotel in my back yard (Swarthmore, PA, USA). The females never choose to use these tunnels, sadly, opting instead for the smaller, paper-lined cavities in the wood blocks. #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #MasonBees #bees #nature #pollinators #insects
New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2025/03/30/cardiff-caper/
A look back at yesterday's Women's Six Nations #rugby clash between Wales and England and a #photo gallery.
#rugby #SixNations #WomensSixNations #WALvENG #photography #insects #bees #flies #birds #cormorant #egret #GreylagGoose
From this afternoon's walk, a large #bee zooms in on some white flowers against a background of green leaves.
#photography #nature #insects #bees
Eine Veröffentlichung der Bochumer Botanischen Vereinigung warnt vor dem willkürlichen Ausstreuen der vermeintlich gut gemeinten #Seedbombs.
(PDF) Buch, C. & Jagel, A.: #Schmetterlingswiese, #Bienenschmaus und #Hummelmagnet – #Insektenrettung aus der Samentüte? / #Butterfly meadow, #bee beacon and #bumblebee magnet - Seed mixes to save the #insects?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342834850_Buch_C_Jagel_A_Schmetterlingswiese_Bienenschmaus_und_Hummelmagnet_-_Insektenrettung_aus_der_Samentute_Butterfly_meadow_bee_beacon_and_bumblebee_magnet_-_Seed_mixes_to_save_the_insects
#Wissenschaft #Wildbienen #Honigbienen #Hymenoptera #Beewashing #Hummel #Balkonien #Balkon #Garten #Biodiversität #Bienenliebe #Bienenschutz #artenschutz #Artenvielfalt #Wildpflanzen #Honig #Nektar #Pollen #Imkerei #Blumen #Blumenwiese #Insektenrettung #Insekten
