Gwen Pearson on Adorable Bees That Live Inside Snail Shells

Osmia bicolor is one of the first bees of spring, emerging as early as February in their native range of South England and Wales. As solitary bees, there are no queens and workers; females build their nests alone. Males emerge, mate, and then die.

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A new species of bee has been discovered in my home town!

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/8667682/scientists-find-new-bee-in-perth/

I was visiting one of my favorite crafting blogs and they featured this unusual looking cocoon in one of their entries:


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(This is the text from the BoingBoing article I was linked to)
This is, I kid you not, the actual title of a paper published in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. I love it, because it sounds like it could just as easily be the fan-encyclopedia description of some minor creature from a Lovecraft story. The ( Read more... )

Once again, a disclaimer for the newbs: How do I know this isn't old? I've read the rules and checked the TAGS LIST, archive, and it is NEW news (not from 1920).

ScienceDaily (Jun. 4, 2008) - Asian and European honeybees can learn to understand one another's dance languages despite having
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First post, and all that jazz.  Have checked the archives, think this is new.

Bees.

The cuter, fluffier variety of hymenoptera excluding unfortunate mentions of African-hyrbids, bees are defined in their phylogeny as eusocial wasps that gave up on the idea of eating meat, and moved onto a more vegan, laid-back lifestyle of pollen protein sources. So ( Read more... )

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Just in case you didnt see my comments on the japanese Killer Bees

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