🧪 Looking forward to going through this beautiful #book on #insect #architecture @princetonupress.bsky.social

A male Colletes on Sphaeralcea coccinea at roadside #beesofcanada #scarletglobemallow #saskachewan

Join us! The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History is hiring a curatorial associate! For more information : careers.amnh.org/postings/4529

🧪 Revealing hidden figures within natural history collections by empowering students with data sleuthing skills

This cool new #graphicnovel is a great introduction to the importance of #insects. I am about 1/2 way through and am enjoying the #artwork, and the to the point way it is communicating important information about my favourite group of animals! #entomology #books #sciArt

The abundance of male Bombus bimaculatus is providing a lot of opportunities for crab spiders in our garden. It is only in the last decade we have found this #bumblebee species in SK and it is spreading quickly, now as far north as Nipawin, and now maybe our most common in the south. #beesofcanada

🧪 This is Stenotritus taylor Houston, 2025, only the 12th species in the genus, and one of only 22 species in the bee family Stenotritidae. No new species of Stenotritus has been described since 1935! This photo by Gary Taylor, from Terry Houston’s recent paper: search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...

I love this figure in our review of sawflies of eastern North America. Shout out to @flydrocarbon.bsky.social for leading the charge and the @catherinelinnen.bsky.social lab! Check out the paper in the @entsocamerica.bsky.social Journal of Integrated Pest Management: academic.oup.com/jipm/article...

Animals as beautiful as these greenbottle flies (Lucilia sp.) are likely in your back yard at this moment! #diptera #insects #macrophotography #backyardbugs

What a beautiful bee the female of Megachile pugnata Say is. #bees #leafcutterbees #Hymenoptera #beesofcanada

The Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) is seeking ten taxonomic specialists in Collembola or any of the following insect orders - Blattodea, Ephemeroptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, Trichoptera! graduatestudies.uoguelph.ca/postdoctoral...

A sleeping male Coelioxys bitting on a milkweed leave #beesofcanada #cuckoobees #sleepingbees

This male Megachile inermis Provancher is staying put for the night, so it allowed me to get a few more photos #beesofcanada #bees #leafcutterbee #macrophotography

This male Megachile inermis Provancher has been busy patrolling our raspberry flowers, and knocking other bees out of the way. #beesofcanada #leafcutterbee #macrophotograpy

This beautiful chalcid wasp belongs to the genus Conura. The genus contains about 300 species, and are parasitoids/hyperparasitoids of a number of arthropod groups. This beautiful specimen was collected on gumweed flowers in Eastend, Saskatchewan. #wasps #hymenoptera #parasitoid #macrophotography

A rare job opportunity for Invertebrate Zoology: fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/j...

Today while it was raining, I was sitting in our screen room and was looking at the #biodiversity on the underside of the leaves of Virginia Creeper, and noticed the #larva of a green lacewing, and lucky for you, I took photos of these formidable little predators! Enjoy! #macrophotography #insects

🧬 Shift between specialized & generalized diets in #bees is associated with evolutionary changes in their sensory genes. Generalists lose odorant receptors (ORs) and gain gustatory receptors (GRs), while specialists diversify existing genes 🌸🐝 #genomics #pollinators academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

Our big review paper on strepsipteran systematics for Insect Systematics and Diversity is out! Hoping it's a helpful resource for anyone who needs it.

Assistant Curator (Entomology) position at National Museums Scotland #jobs #entomology careers.nms.ac.uk/job/727783?f...

🧪 How many bee species are there? A quantitative global estimate www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

The Hylaeus are flying in Saskatchewan, and Hylaeus annulatus (Linnaeus) are all over (and inside of) our raspberry flowers. #beesofcanada #maskedbees #rubus #raspberry #macrophotography

Our resin bees continue to emerge from nesting tubes; this beauty is a female Heriades carinata #beesofcanada #resinbees #macrophotography

A monumental taxonomy unification effort has just been published - thanks to all those who've collaborated for years to make this happen! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/avi...

In the Great Sandhills of SK we observed many cool bees, including Lasioglossum pictum, on wild rose. The type series was also caught from rose, though it visits other plants. This colourful little bee also tends to nest in sandy areas. #beesofcanada #sweatbees #macrophotography #sanddunes

We were very excited to find Dielis plumipes in the Great Sand Hills and Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park. There are no published accounts of this species in Canada west of southern Ontario, though I subsequently discovered a few records from Saskatchewan on iNaturalist. #coolwasps #wasps

Look at the ocelli on this female Andrena ceanothi Viereck - the anterior ocellus and one of the laterals have fused into one large, irregular lens. There are three females in this series, though only one has this condition, and it is also the only one that is stylopized. #beesofcanada #mutant #bees

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This colourful bee is Andrena erythrogaster, a rather common spring species in Canada. It is a common visitor of willows (Salix), but also uses pollen from cherry (Prunus), Saskatoons (Amelanchier), and hawthorn (Crataegus). #beesofcanada #bees #macrophotography

Look closely at the oil-glands at the base of this Lysimachia flower. The oil is used for larval food by Macropis nuda, and helps line and water-proof the natal cells in the soil. The female bee has specialized hairs on the hind legs for carrying the oil to the nest. #oilbee #beesofcanada #bees

The female of Nomada depressa is a I have been watching and photographing for a number of years in my flower garden, and have watched it go in and out of nests of Andrena milwaukeensis in the same garden #cuckoobees #Nomada #hosts #beesofcanada #macrophotography

🚨 New Paper 🚨 Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living. On average, $10kCAD below cost of living. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Megachile discorhina Cockerell, 1924 is a beautiful #resinbee of the southwestern USA and Mexico. This single specimen is from #Alberta, Canada. Mislabelled? An introduction that did not establish? Will look into it more. It is a cool bee! #beesofcanada

Looks like another #bumblebee species can be added to the list of species occurring in the #NorthwestTerritories #beesOfCanada #bees

🧪 A taxonomic revision of Habralictus Moure, 1941 from Brazil, with description of four new species (Hymenoptera: Apidae) europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ej...

I was in my early 20s in #NovaScotia when I started to collect insects seriously, and back then, this was still a somewhat common #cuckoo #bumblebee

🧪 #science #jobs #bumblebees Wildlife Preservation Canada (WPC) is seeking an experienced biologist to oversee all activities for their Native Pollinator Initiative, and in particular our Ontario-based Bumble Bee Recovery Program wildlifepreservation.ca/work-with-us/

Today is #WorldBeeDay, which is a real reason to celebrate these wonders of nature! #Canada is a very large, diverse country. Our efforts have confirmed almost 1030 species (www.beesofcanada.com/species), and this list continues to grow.

🧪 Experimental short-term heatwaves negatively impact body weight gain and survival during larval development in Bombus terrestris L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae) url:https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/14/4/bio061781/367787/Experimental-short-term-heatwaves-negatively

I have a small series of Bombus sandersoni from Newfoundland that have a lot of pale hairs on tergum 5 (which is not that uncommon), but have not seen many with so many pale hairs on terga 3 & 4. #bumblebees #beesofcanada

Another #bumblebee that seems to be making its way into northern Canada, these Bombus ternarius were collected in the Northwest Territories. There are also a few recent records on @inaturalist.bsky.social #beesofcanada

Northern #Canada may be the spot if you are interested in observing good numbers of the #cuckoo #bumblebee Bombus bohemicus in North America, these from a few locations in the Northwest Territories #beesofcanada #speciesAtrRisk

What a beautiful work this is, all 219 pages! #osmiini #bees #taxonomy

A female mason bee, Osmia tersula nesting in our bee condo. In the first image you can see her carrying chewed leaf pieces, which she will use to make her nest cells. #macrophotography #masonbees #beesofcanada

The newest addition to our library! #chalcidoidea #wasps #hymenoptera #books

Our #haskap is in full bloom, and it is loaded with #bumblebee queens: Bombus huntii, B. perplexus, and B. bimaculatus #pollination #beesofcanada

Spectacular to watch

🧪 An opportunity for #gradstudies at the #MSc level o investigate #plant-insect community dynamics across deep time and environmental changes at the University of Alberta and Royal Tyrrell Museum (www.i-deel.org/opportunitie...)

🧪 The Australian Resin Pot Bees, Megachile (Austrochile) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), with descriptions of 71 new species www.taxonomyaustralia.org.au/ajt/papers/u...

🧪 The past, present, and future of bee taxonomy in mainland China www.zootax.com.cn/EN/10.11865/...