#Apiformes

[ola-na-tungee]

Post Captain "They are remarkably adaptable – perhaps the most adaptable of all social insects!"

[ayanos-pl]

タンポポに小さいハナバチ。後肢に白い花粉をたくさんつけている（4月10日）

[cwicseolfor]

Yeaaaah, this. That bit. Oddly the direct agreement with this angle clarified why some of the reblog discussion (specifically the angle that this can be a settled matter, from any point of view) is making me nuts.

The absolute kneejerk ire going on as this conversation unwinds in reblogs is mostly about a failure to make space for the idea that when some people say “divine, holy, sacred” or even “magic” in the English language they have absolutely zero need for that to be a statement of something that exists outside the natural or even the material… and a failure to make space for the fact that we’re so culturally primed to conflate the supernatural and the holy that people can be having two conversations past each other about ontologies on one hand and affective psychologies on the other and lobbing some pretty fundamental insults even should they fundamentally agree.

Words do mean things, but words are limited to start with and cultures go out of their way to limit them further to constrain their Overton window of allowable ideas and positions.

Divinity, sacrality, holiness, mysticality, and magic are the most common (surviving) concepts in English used as a proxy for descriptions of universal human feelings about some object of awe. We have precious few that can even attempt to be secular, because institutionalized religion did a lot of murdering in an attempt to corner that market, so theological terms get borrowed back to convey grand human sentiment all the time (as OP’s username likely itself demonstrates, if it’s anything other than an appeal to a plural apiform divinity.) Almost none are materialist, but that goes with the territory of human feelings, even feelings about totally material things.

Some people need to picture something outside the natural world or outside the world at all to feel awe, and some don’t, and as an atheist in Texas who spent high school arguing for the right to learn evolution in biology class I have plenty of pent up frustration for people who go around demanding others’ universally human experiences of awe be attributed specifically to their own personal (or more likely, inherited) prescriptive religious narratives. But doing the same with a converse sentiment is surely no better, and that’s how this reads - to nearly anyone who has a strong emotional charge around art, in this context of limited language, to insist there is nothing mystical about art sounds a lot more like an experiential argument than a factual one; it’s like saying there’s nothing happy about ice cream. In the most literal reading about the ontological nature of frozen dairy this statement may not be controversial because ice cream requires an ice-cream-enjoying observer to have anything to do with happiness. But an equally valid colloquial reading, without further clarification, is that ice cream does not invoke happiness, which is making a fact claim about a subjective subject and thus especially inviting to contradiction. Or maybe a bit closer to the actual angle - as if there’s nothing divine about birth, because it is a violent, bloody, fleshy, grunting, sweating, spitting and shitting affair, exhausting and animal, and in the sense that it’s nothing to do with intangible invisible beings with a weird preoccupation with humans that may be a point of agreement and yet the experience, to most people emotionally adjacent to one, is also going to invoke wonder and awe, even should you possess a comprehensive understanding of the biology involved. Due to cultural context, even a lot of lifelong unbelievers are going to describe their emotional response in terms of divinity or mystery.

Relatedly on that point of labors I also really get the absolute frustration of the end game of mythologizing art in that a lot of people, by attributing it some supernatural quality, they (can) then perceive it as effortless (and perhaps this is the motive?) - given from the sky like rain and therefore not a product of labor with a laborer behind it to whom reciprocal community support would be expected, but rather some spontaneously-generated resource to which everyone is equally entitled despite contributing nothing. This has very real consequences of injury for workers trying to stay fed and housed, beyond the insult of demeaning into erasure the lifetime of concentrated effort that most self-described artists put into the craft.

Which … is yet another big part of what’s going on here, because even beyond the usual capitalist over-identification with profession, art is seen as a vocation, and gets so conflated with identity and values that any universal statement about what it means or should mean is always going to buzz. It kicks off with a matter of existing talk!

Whether you’re seeking light or heat, invoking first art and secondly the experience of awe (whatever the reading of the source) - and then saying the two aren’t related, while leaving open the matter of ontological vs. subjective renderings of the latter - is putting a fist each through a couple of particularly enormous hornet’s nests and then bashing them together. There’s no call for a lack of charity but it’s beyond reason to think it won’t be controversial, which is what baffled me into investing the thought in the first place.

the talk about art as something divine and mystical runs completely counter to reality: anyone can do it if they wanted to. its not a super power, its a skill. like handling a knife or power tools. anyone can do it.

[entomoblog]

[Étymozoo] Sésie apiforme

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Sésie apiforme - Wikipédia

La Sésie apiforme ou Sésie du peuplier (Sesia apiformis ) est une espèce de lépidoptères (papillons) de la famille des Sesiidae, originaire d' Europe. L' espèce Sesia apiformis a été décrite par le naturaliste suédois Carl Alexander Clerck en 1759, sous le nom initial de Sphinx apiformis.

La Sésie apiforme ou Sésie du peuplier (Sesia apiformis) est une espèce de lépidoptères (papillons) de la famille des Sesiidae, originaire d'Europe.

  Wikipédia

version du 10 août 2023 à 12:22

  [Image] Sesia apiformis (le mâle est le plus petit)

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via Taupo sur X, 06.09.2022

  "#Etymozoo : Sesia apiformis, du grec sēs (mite) et du latin apis (abeille) et fōrma (forme) : le papillon à l'apparence d'abeille (ou de frelon ici) https://t.co/CZ1roSfv2r"

  https://x.com/pierrekerner/status/1567090232515756034

[vanessasisomonter]

VERANO 2023 - ABEJAS

16 de Mayo 2023 - Los martes los vamos a dedicar a DIY o manualidades de animales, hoy empezamos con ideas para hacer ABEJAS...

Como ya os comente ayer, los martes, lo vamos a dedicar a DIY o manualidades de animales propios de esta estación. Las abejas son insectos que pertenecen al orden Hymenoptera, también conocidos como Apiformes o Antofilos (del griego Anthophila, que significa “que ama las flores”). Aproximadamente se conocen 18 000 especies de abejas en todo el mundo y se estima que hay más de 20 000…

[matom01]

Anflug #hummel, #bumblebee, #hummeln, #apinae, #echtebienen, #apidae, #bienen, #apiformes, #apoidea, #stechimmen, #aculeata, #insekt, #insect, #flug, #fliegen, #flying, #austria, #österreich🇦🇹, #kärnten, #tierphotographie, #insektenFotografie, #matom, #tier, #animal, #wolfsberg (hier: Wolfsberg,K-AT) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcdFs3cqhlP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[stephanocardona]

Dancing Bee by martinerstling

[mikeahrens]

Hummel “Bombus” Artwork

[fulviomeloni]

On the top! by martinerstling http://500px.com/photo/258171063 #macro

[naturalxnotizblog]

Hylaeus spec., Reseda lutea Gelber Wau, Maskenbienen Notizblog 19: ..., Systematik, Taxonomie, Reseda lutea Rosiden, Eurosiden II, Ordnung: Kreuzblütlerartige (Brassicales),

[bunjywunjy]

i learned yesterday that the biggest bee (a mason bee, length up to 1.5 inches) builds its home into the active nests of tree dwelling termites and thats hardcore and i am sappy about apiformes

oh yeah I think that's why it took scientists so long to find the dang thing in the first place!

it's Wallace's Giant Bee from Indonesia and it's amazing but no one thought to look for it in freaking termite nests

(except for the people who already lived there, but they don't count I guess. they also gave it a way cooler name, Raja Ofu- King of Bees, but again doesn't count I guess)

[entomoblog]

Fragiles papillons | Illustré

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Aérienne et chatoyante, leur présence enchante la terre. Fascinés, les photographes allemands Heidi et Hans-Jürgen Koch ont exploré la beauté et la diversité des papillons de très, très près.

  Par Mireille Monnier publié le 26 janvier 2019 - 14:05, modifié 18 janvier 2021

  "... Il y a le plus effrayant, Creatonotos gangis, dont l’apparence d’extraterrestre a récemment fait le buzz sur les réseaux sociaux, le plus puant, Macrocilix Maia, qui dégage des relents de fiente d’oiseau, et le migrateur fou, comme le monarque, qui franchit plus de 4500 kilomètres. Il y a la sésie apiforme qui joue les frelons, le moro-sphinx qui connaît le secret du vol stationnaire, le Bombyx mori qui produit de la soie. Tous ou presque dotés d’une beauté aérienne, mariage de couleur et de lumière, qui fait d’eux les insectes les plus admirés du monde – mais des insectes tout de même, et donc en train de disparaître. Très vite. Leur nombre aurait diminué de 50 à 75% ces vingt-cinq dernières années, selon une étude européenne."

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  [Image] La saturnie du chêne du Japon («Antheraea yamamai») fut introduite en France au milieu du XIXe siècle pour remplacer le ver à soie. Les mâles sentent et goûtent avec leurs antennes plumeuses. Heidi & Hans-Jürgen Koch

[flosalat]

Crocus - iridaceae et apiformes - hymenoptera

[etienne-caspary]

"Biene" von Etienne Caspary

•| Die Biene [Apiformes] umfasst weltweit ca. 20.000 verschiedene Arten. Alleine in Deutschland leben mehr als 500 davon, z.B.

Ackerbiene

Mauerbiene

Maskenbiene

Glanzbiene

u.v.m.

Die oben genannten Wildbienen leben solitär. Das bedeutet, dass sie nicht wie z.B. die Honigbienen in staatsbildenden Kolonien, sondern alleine leben.

Mittlerweile sind mehr als 50% der Wildbienen auf der roten Liste der gefährdeten Arten. Man geht davon aus, dass ca. 10% schon ausgestorben sind. Das sind ca. 2.000 verschiedene Arten, welche auf unserem Planeten nicht mehr vertreten sind, was einen erheblich negativen Einfluss auf unser Ökosystem bedeutet.

Rolle im Ökosystem: Rund 70% unserer pflanzlichen Nahrung ist auf die Bestäubung der Biene angewiesen. Darunter zählen Apfel-, Kirsch- und Birnenbäume, Tomaten, Erdbeeren und Pfirsiche. Auch Kakao und Vanille haben wir der Bestäubung durch die Biene zu verdanken. Somit zählt die Biene, genau wie Schweine, Rinder und Hühner, zu den wichtigsten Nutztieren unseres Planeten. |•

[apiformes-bee-blog]

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[stephanocardona]

Searching for gold by martinerstling