May 11
Obsessed with the way she scurries back in "there is work to be done here !" Pantaloon bees are the cutest things.
(Dasyopoda hirtipes, female imago)
16.vi.2020
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Obsessed with the way she scurries back in "there is work to be done here !" Pantaloon bees are the cutest things.
(Dasyopoda hirtipes, female imago)
16.vi.2020
And some better cropped pictures (just wanted to make the scale of a pantaloon bee digging clear in the first post !)
(Dasypoda hirtipes, female imago)
june 2020
Happy and sleepy pantaloon bee in my moms garden!
Pragtbuksebi (Dasypoda hirtipes)
Hunner (1-5) og hanner (6-7).
Pantaloon Bee aka Hairy-legged Mining Bee (Dasypoda hirtipes)
Females (1-5) and males (6-7).
Dasypotda hirtipes - The Netherlands. Fact: bee genera inhabiting western Europe almost all can be found in North America. There are exceptions and Dasypoda is one of them. I like to think of the fluffy #Dasypoda genus as a Euro replacements for the #Melissodes they don't have
Excited about bees again but unable to go outside really so i've been looking through old pictures ! This is from june 2020.
Female pantaloon bee (i love her pantaloons !!) nesting, well, digging a nest. They usually prefer more sandy patches but in this street they always nest in the pavement cracks. They enjoy nesting together (even though they are solitary bees - they seem to be a living step in the evolution between solitary and social bees !) so there was like a few meters radius with just digging little bees everywhere on the pavement.
(Dasypoda hirtipes, female imago)
Pragtbuksebi (Dasypoda hirtipes)
Pantaloon Bee (Dasypoda hirtipes)
Pantaloon bee digging out a nest ! Have always been obsessed with the way they seem to move backward (promise you this is not a reverse video !)
(Dasypoda hirtipes, female imago)
16.vi.2020
[Video description: a small heap of coarse sand on a pavement. There's a hole in the middle out of which a bee crawls up, moving the sand backwards with her legs. Background noise is of a calm street, halfway through the video a car drives past, other than that there's birds in the background]
(So sorry for the horrible quality this became by uploading to tumblr 🥲)