BEEKEEPING.BUZZ

The ramblings of a beekeeper and the latest buzz from the world of bees.

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See the Flowers that Bloom All At Once, One Night a Year

The mysterious night-blooming cereus just dazzled a garden in Tucson. Scientists still aren’t sure exactly how they bloom at the same time

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Tiny scales in ancient lagoon may be the first fossil evidence of the moth-butterfly line

Fancy liquid-sipper mouthparts might have evolved before the great burst of flower evolution

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Bees collect honeydew from bugs before spring blossoms arrive

In the absence of nectar, bees get by on the sweet secretions of other insects — but they still need flowers for their protein-laden pollen.

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Cute bees you probably didn’t know

1.  Leafcutter Bee 2.  Metallic Sweat Bee 3.  Carpenter Bee / Blue Carpenter Bee 4.  Cuckoo Leafcutter Bee 5.  Orchid Bee 6.  Teddy Bear Bee

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BeeFTA 2018 - The Shutterbug Award

NOMINEE 1 - Ming Thein (Insect macro photography techniques – an ongoing experimentation)

NOMINEE 2 - Vicky-Michelle Squire - cameraless photography to create vivid and detailed colour prints of real butterflies, beetles and bees

NOMINEE 3 - Scientists are buzzing after developing tiny cameras that are so small they can be placed on bees.

NOMINEE 4 - Entomology Project showing the Iridescent microworld of insects - Francesco Bagnato

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Butterfly Animation

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Most insect studies lack crucial species information

Survey results suggest that a lot of entomology research could be impossible to replicate.

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A beautiful Kentish snowdrop garden... a paradise for pollinators early in the year. There were over 400 different varieties of snowdrop in this garden!

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Study highlights importance of vertebrate pollinators

The importance of birds, mammals and reptiles for pollinating plants around the world is the subject of a major new study involving the University of East Anglia.

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BeeFTA 2018 - Best Pollination Exhibition Award

NOMINEE 1- Cross-Pollination at 516 Arts

NOMINEE 2 - PolliNation 2017 Community Art Project Exhibition

NOMINEE 3 - Cross-Pollination Exhibition at The National Botanical Garden of Wales

NOMINEE 4 - Nectar: War Upon the Bees at Pratt Manhattan Gallery

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Honeybees Help Farmers, But They Don't Help The Environment

Maybe honeybees get too much attention. They are agricultural animals, like sheep or cattle, and they sometimes make life harder for wild bees. In fact, the bees in true peril are the wild ones.

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The lovely flowers embarrass me, they make me regret I am not a bee.

Emily Dickinson

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New species of teddy bear bee discovered

Yet another new species of teddy bear bee has been discovered in northern Queensland during a 'bush blitz' of the area.

LOOK AT ITS EYES! No, just look at them. Why didn’t I *see* these things in the world years ago? Reminder to myself: It’s never too late to dive into discovering the world around you. Go study the math you forgot. You got this. 

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BeeFTA 2018 - Snug as a Bug in Rug Award

NOMINEE 1 - Sunflower Goat

NOMINEE 2 - Dog Bee

NOMINEE 3 - Bat Cat

NOMINEE 4 - The Bee Lady & David Walliams

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Butterflies in The Glasshouse exhibit returns to RHS Wisley

More than 50 species of free-flying butterflies will inhabit the tropical Zone of the Glasshouse as they land on plants, fruit and even people.

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BeeFTA 2018 - The Songbird Award

NOMINEE 1 - Scientists discover how the distinctive pitch of mosquito wingbeats could tell us how to fight malaria.

NOMINEE 2 - The Plight of the Bumblebee (and others) by Caroline Ritchey

NOMINEE 3 - Dynamics by Secret Drum Band (an album composed in response to soundscape and form in locations chosen to draw attention to issues concerning endangered species, ecosystem function, and habitat loss)

NOMINEE 4 - The Pollination Rap