While identifying #bumblebees I came across an interesting male of #Bombus rufocinctus. The second image shows the normal head/face of a male, while the head in the second is quite deformed; the right eye/antennae are absent but the exoskeleton is present and is covered with hair. #beesofcanada

🧪 It is going to be a busy year for #cavity-nesting #bee #research. 8000 potential homes for solitary bees just arrived!

🧪 Unraveling the function of the hooked hairs of females of Monoeca species (Apidae: Tapinotaspidini) link.springer.com/article/10.1... #bees #pollination #morphology

Entomology Job! Australian native bee systematics:

These wonderful #paintings of #bees were done by Hashime Murayama (1879–1954), a Japanese American painter and scientific illustrator and appeared in the July 1937 issue of The National Geographic Magazine. As much as I love #macrophotography, paintings such as these are such a pleasure to look at.

I have been interested in the faunistics of northern #Canada and #Alaska for some time. This lovely volume on the #arthropods of #Greenland is an excellent contribution; the three bee species are covered on three pages, though what was called #Bombus hyperboreus should now be Bombus natvigi.

I drew this for my aunt when I was a teenager before I had any knowledge of archival acid-free paper. It was framed without glass, and received the full range of exposure of dust and smoke from the house it was in. #pencil #art #dogs #sketch

🧪 UAV-based remote sensing of bee nesting aggregations with computer vision for object detection besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Come work with us! We are seeking a tenure-track botanist, preferably in the areas of non-vascular, systematics, physiology or cell. Happy to answer questions. unbc.njoyn.com/CL/xweb/xweb... 🧪🌱 #botany

🧪 Phylogenomics and biogeography of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Triepeolus Robertson (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with a revised subgeneric classification of Triepeolus and its sister genus, Epeolus Latreille resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just got a pdf of this entire work on #chalcidoidea for a fraction of what I paid for the hard copy! Take a look: biologylibrary.online

This new book on the #bees of #Australia just arrived and it is loaded with fabulous #macrophotos and great information. I can’t wait to go through it thoroughly!

I must admit, I have not seen many specimens of #Bombus variabilis, this #cuckoo #bumblebee was collected in Florida in 1984. @paulwilliamsnhm.bsky.social

🧪 Inverted terra cotta plant pot bases for encouraging #Osmia bees that normally #nest under stones. Osmia inermis females were encouraged to nest in lowbush blueberry fields in Newfoundland (our study from 2015): resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...)

🧪 Illustrated key to the Central and Northwest European species of the bee genus Colletes LATREILLE, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) www.wildbienenzentrum.de/anthophila/a... #bees

Colour variation in the #Megachile subgenus #Megachiloides has likely had an impact on #conservation assessments for some of the #species. I will be talking about this later today at #Hymathon2025 #bees

🧪Arthropod species loss underpins biomass declines www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧪 Structural and Functional Co-Adaptation of Plants of the Genus Lysimachia L. (Primulaceae) and Pollinating Insects of the Genus Macropis Panzer (Hymenoptera, Melittidae) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#Honeybee colonies swarm when the colony gets too large, with 1/2 the colony’s workers + the old queen leaving to find a suitable cavity; this is what I though was happening in the first photo. However, open-air colonies are rarely observed in regions with cold winters like SK. #saskatchewan

🧪 Keys to the genera and subgenera of the bee subfamily Euryglossinae (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pemb...

🧪 Western Palaearctic Chelostoma bees of the subgenus Chelostoma (Megachilidae, Osmiini): biology, taxonomy and key to species www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...

The beautiful nighttime sky of Saskatchewan tonight #northernlights

This was my first attempt at using #coloredpencils for #wildlife #art

🚀 Big news from BHL! 🌱 We’ve launched our Transition Fundraising Campaign to help BHL navigate the move to independence and secure a sustainable, global future for open biodiversity knowledge. #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess 🔗 Read more and donate: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/10/dona...

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto is looking for a Curator of Plants and Sustainability #academicjobs #iamabotanist royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Sf2iAO...

🚨🪲 COOL JOB ALERT 🪲🚨 3-year position at the Western Australian Museum working on an awesome beetle phylogenetics project, starting at $105k dollarydoos per annum: search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

Our new paper “On the nomenclature of Bombus flavifrons Smith, 1866 (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombini)” @paulwilliamsnhm.bsky.social jhr.pensoft.net/article/1632...

It’s great to be in Calgary, Alberta for the Entomological Society of Canada’s Annual Meeting. I will be talking about my research on one of my favourite groups of #bees @canentomologist.bsky.social

🧪 This is pretty amazing!

🧪 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...