#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]

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.

[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

[unnaturalcuriositiesblog]

[arthropodopolis]

a wee smol fellow

[leisure-photo-by-barb]

#newpost

[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

[rara-avis-fr]

this is the only thing that’s ever mattered

[graveyardwriting]

Um..

What?

I'm both confused and screaming

[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!

[bestanimal]

:ooo do you have a favorite hymenopteran? im fond of the velvet ant, since i saw so many while i was at my last job

It’s hard to narrow it down to just one favorite (we’ll see if I have to do that in this tournament lol), but tbh I am really fond of a lot of wasps, mostly Apoidea. I love Eastern Cicada Killers (Sphecius speciosus) and a lot of the other big guys like the Steel-blue Cricket-hunter (Chlorion aerarium) and Great Black Digger Wasp (Sphex pensylvanicus) are always fun to see in the wild. I love sweat bees too, especially the green ones. One I added to my collection last Summer that I found really beautiful was the Norton’s Nomia (Nomia nortoni) which has pearlescent stripes???

But yeah Velvet Ants are also a great pick, I love seeing them. I saw a male Eastern Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis) for the first time this Summer and was really bummed I didn’t have my net with me. (I collect only one male and female of each species.) He had beautiful metallic blue wings. I also used to have 2 pet velvet ants that lived with my death-feigning beetles. Their names were Bambi and Cupcake. 😅

The thing with Hymenopterans is that they’re just so incredibly diverse that it’s hard to pick just one, and that’s one of the reasons I love them so much! And you don’t even have to travel far to see cool ones; there’s a huge diversity of them right in your backyard. I am sitting on the back porch right now watching a Potter Wasp and and Carpenter Bee pollinate my Heuchera.

Photos, cause I guess this can double as Arthropod propaganda, not that it needs it lol:

Eastern Cicada Killer (Sphecius speciosus) (own work)

Steel-blue Cricket-hunter (Chlorion aerarium) (source)

Great Black Digger Wasp (Sphex pensylvanicus) (source)

Pure Green Sweat Bee (Augochlora pura) (source)

Norton’s Nomia (Nomia nortoni) (source)

Eastern Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis) (female, but there is also a photo of a male in the source)

Sacken’s Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla sackenii) (this is what Bambi was, but I don’t remember what exact species Cupcake was) (source)

[noosphe-re]

Melittology (from Greek μέλιττα, melitta, "bee"; and -λογία -logia) is a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of bees. It may also be called apiology or apicology. Melittology covers the species found in the clade Anthophila within the superfamily Apoidea, comprising more than 20,000 species, including bumblebees and honey bees.

Wikipedia