Late season beauty. 🌱

Had a “no way!” moment today when I spotted another first for me - common puffball. Can’t say it’s been all that common here but maybe it will be from now on. Woohoo!! 🍄📸 🙌

There I was staring at this flower thinking I’d seen the last of the pollinators for this year…

My very first Cafe au Lait bloom. 🌱✨💕

I'm guessing this is Physarum album, a little white-topped slime mold that I found on a wood chip 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/4, 1/6, ISO 400 Stack of 16 images 8/29/25 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

The rain has finally returned but there is no shortage of sunshine. 🌱

I know this is going to result in me getting spammed - but we're looking for an artist to commission for a lab logo and reusable (bumble) bee vector graphics. Please get in touch if that's you, or recommend anyone you've worked with in the past. frsbeelab.org is our research group!

The stages of gall.

Weird thought of the day: If a person’s life energy/spirit can get stuck in their home would that suggest that a person’s dream energy could get trapped in their bed? Given how much brain activity happens in these spaces it has me wondering. 🤔 What do you think? 🛌✨

Today’s the day. Happy Autumn, friends.

How do you like your marshmallows? 🔥

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world. ~Mary Oliver, Invitation (2008)

An antennal cleaner, they run their antennae through them

--in looking at the shots later, I noticed a structure on his foreleg I'd never seen before. It's the little sclerotized divot in the cropped pic. I'd guess it helps him hold onto a female - maybe to a leg or antenna? - during mating. But not sure. Maybe one of my bee-wise friends can tell me?

Hope to see you at City Farmer in Vancouver on October 4th!

Be open to receive the vibe. ✨

A beautiful orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca), from my time in Yellowknife, NT, Canada. #lichen #fungifriends

A boy bumblebee (male bees have longer antennae, with an extra segment). It may look like he's drinking from the flower, but if you zoom in you'll see he's actually using the claws on his front leg to groom the end of the tongue (glossa), which has tiny hairs for soaking up nectar. #InverteFest 🐙🌿

That feeling when someone knows you love insects and says, “I saw a cool bug today. Come with me, let’s see if we can find it so I can show you.” 💚

Such a busy bloom she tucked herself right up underneath for a little snooze. 🐝🌼

which just happens to be my birthday! There will also be a short 'walk' at the nearby pollinator garden afterwards. Date: Sep 6 Time: 11:00am Venue: Merritt branch, Thompson-Nicola Regional Library Location: 1691 Garcia Street, Merritt, BC

Stay nimble. 🐝🌱

Love me some baby 🗑️🐼🦝

Hang on, my guy! 🐝

quiet owl

There's a huge disconnect between people's love for bees and their knowledge about them. We explore this, and proposed pollinator conservation policies, in our most recent publication. Open access. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Drink a little, snooze a little.🪻🐝🌱

My first of the season. 💚🐝

That belly! 🦊🐝

The Cave

Orion is Rising Winter is Coming

Success! I put out a second set of tubes with the hope I’d see more Mexican grass-carrying wasps and it worked. #isodontiamexicana #insects #wasps

… dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the great hands of light– good morning, good morning, good morning Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness ~Mary Oliver, Why I Wake Early

See you soon in Syringa! @bcnativebees.bsky.social @bcparksfoundation.ca #bees

Whose teenager is this? I barely spotted this future lacewing but so happy that I did.

When your phone decides to try a longer exposure. ✨

Biodiversity is beautiful.

Punk. 🌱🍺🧑‍🎤

So sweet to be in the path of a flock of Bushtits. This must be where the term ‘borb’ originated.

Tucked away in the shade of a cedar tree. So very welcome here.

Cup & Card Method? you ask I’ve got ya. Creators of this most excellent spider PSA in the AltText

Bedtime booty. 🐝

An owlfly, Ascaloptynx appendiculata. Owlflies look a bit like dragonflies, but are in a different order, Neuroptera, with antlions and lacewings. (Note the long antennae; dragonfly antennae are very short.) They are predators as both adults and larvae. Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona. 🐙🌿 #insects

Today’s lesson: Hang on. Zoom out for a different perspective. Take a beat to get your bearings. 🐝

Seed collecting season. 🌱😊

I thought I was chasing a fairy around the garden. 🧚

Everyone is fledging.

A Good Morning of Bees Slept overnight in the embrace of a wild sunflower. They were starting to stir and vibrate their abdomens as I observed them. Two flew off while the others took a bit longer to warm up under the rays of sunrise.

Fill up the empty chairs with your own favorite “Unhated Insect.” And tell us why it’s your favorite “Unhated Insect.” — My posting, my rules. Can be any arthropod people would consider a crawly-leggy thingy.

Do you see the bee?