#apoidea

[addicted2wasps]

Drawing of the day: Megarhyssa greenei. Bonus mini collage of my favourite non-cartoon wasp drawings. I plan on adding more as I go along. For now, this is only a sample. Drawing wasps is keeping me sane during these dark times. Which one is your favourite?

[rattyexplores]

Native Stingless bees with pollen pants

These bees sure are busy!

They appear to be nesting inside an old plastic fountain. I’ve also seen them nest in walls, cracked concrete, really anywhere that’s good for them.

The bees are also carrying big balls of pollen. Because of the position of the pollen on their legs, it looks like they’re wearing puffy pants ❤

Unidentified, Tribe Meliponini

02/01/23

[ljsbugblog]

very tiny, very sleepy.

Unknown Sweat Bee (subgenus Austronomia), April '24.

[cnestus]

incredible curlicue antennae on this bee

[ridechemy]

inaturalist is telling me it's megachile, I couldn't tell you anything because im not too good at ID

[blaznthekid]

There's a lot of Newgrounds collab art I haven't really posted so this is a pretty big mash-up of all of them throughout the year!

Courage the Cowardly Dog's Snowman for the Snowman Collab

A little Apoidea animation for the 2023 Sketch Collab

And a whole lot of Blaze for the Sandwich Collab, Ghost Collab, Dragon Raid Collab, Kart Collab, and the Summer in Wintertime Collab!

[teacup-captor]

Hello perdita minima tumble. No one else seems to post about these wonderful creatures. They can be found in Arizona, Cali and the top of Mexico (mostly) if you didn't know

Sources: Neat little map

+ iNaturalist

[amazingsuper42]

bee 🐝

(I don't actually know if this was a bee or something similar)

[unnaturalcuriositiesblog]

[addicted2wasps]

Woo! Halfway done! Heck yeah! I'm quite intrigued to see how it will look completely finished. Definitely making some progress. I will also have a separate numbered page with the names so people can correspond them with the right wasp. Stay tuned!

[rattyexplores]

Small Plasterer Bee

Unidentified, genus Palaeorhiza

26/06/22

[arthropodopolis]

a wee smol fellow

[cnestus]

i almost never go actively insect collecting anymore since i feel increasingly conflicted about it as i get older, but the nature of my research--trapping for forest/agricultural pests--typically results in a lot of by-catch which i feel duty bound to preserve and curate as best i can. especially the bees because they're cute as hell.

[worm98]

how lucky that i've kept a portfolio of me holding wasps! here are some of the pictures (species name in alt text):

if she doesn't fw the wasps, then i have other cool insect pictures! :3

Trying to convince my little sister that bugs aren't scary so; send me bug pictures / art. (Preferably ones that look cool/pretty/silly or that are on someone that way she knows they won't hurt you- she's 7) and I'll give you worms!

[blaznthekid]

Here's the villainous other half of my Apoidea characters! Praying Mantis, the leader with his dual scythes, Dragonfly (Roseate Skimmer) with her needlers, and Ambush (Ambush Bug) with his hook swords!

[leisure-photo-by-barb]

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