Late for the UK- but since I'm home/not yet outdoors on a Sunday afternoon and just at the edge of the growing season, here's a post for #WildflowerHour ! Photos from last week, #FirstFlowers of the season: #Aspen -Populus tremuloides +Willow- one of our several native #Salix species. Bonus #pollinators non-native #honeybee on the Aspen- supposed to be wind pollinated! + one of several types of #flies seen on the Willows (along with honeybees) #Alberta#Spring#Canada#bees#florespondence
Honey bees are a powerful system to probe host-gut #microbiota interactions. @a_chhun@PEngellab@YSchaerli &co engineer a native bacterial #symbiont of the #HoneyBee to non-invasively sense & report exposure to molecular cues inside the gut #PLOSBiologyhttps://plos.io/3P8ioWJ
Every time I've gone on the porch to have a mug of tea today, a #honeybee has arrived shortly after I finish to lick the inside of my mug clean. Is it the same bee every time?
I put lots of #honey in my tea, and I understand that you're not supposed to give honey to bees, because it can transmit disease. The tea is boiling hot when I stir the honey in, which I would think would destroy some disease vectors, but I don't really know.
How bad is this? Do I need to flee inside when I see the bee?
The bees have finally come for the scarlet beebalm (Monarda didyma). I was getting concerned - they seemed too lacking of bees in the past week. #BloomScrolling#garden#HoneyBee#Bees
#honeybee air conditioning. Several bees standing at the entrance of this nuc, fanning air out of it. Too hot for the bees. Will be moving these into a larger, white box tomorrow, hopefully they were able to keep temperatures under control the last two days for the brood. #beekeeping