#white-banded digger bee

[saiintvalentiine]

wifies but he's a 'white banded digger bee' ^_^

i had to look it up BUT THAT IS SUCH A FUZZY LITTLE GUY???? I bet they look sooooo funny coming out of a flower covered in pollen hehehehehe

beefies....... the instinct to go to colorful things bc they look like flowers so he bumps his face into Ken and Wato's heads near their ears or Parrot's wings ansndknsksdbjsjs

[the-starry-seas]

What kind of things remind you of your ocs? (Like with Hops its 🐸) O:

I couldn't decide which OCs to do so I decided to do... all of them

Kestrel: turquoise, winter soldier fanart, socks patterned like cats' feet

Racer: loud colours, monster trucks, things drawn in lesbian flag colours

Fury: engineering blueprints, blue/red combos, things decorated with red and pink love hearts, strawberries, poly memes

Blue: blueberries, fanart of couples dancing, blue dresses with white stockings

Whisper: frogs, sniper rifles, cool prosthetic arms

Ember: sea turtles, aquariums, ballet

Winter: snowflakes, fountains, matching wedding rings

Bee: bees, yellow clothes, vegetable gardens

Indigo: playing cards, undercut mohawk hairstyle, dusky blue colours

Jewel: bright lipstick, novelty hair clips, band-aids

Nebula: stars, medals from service, black coffee

Zenith: pilot aesthetics, german shepherds, firefighters

Sunny: orange hair, fancy food concotions

Star: matching wedding rings, clones with Sith eyes/lightsabers

Sky and Silver: twin aesthetics, blue/silver combos, shiny fanart

Harlow: tired dad memes

Karla: hmmm idk actually 🤔

Shay: ocean and anxiety

Cavalry: leg braces and human/Twi'lek ships

Boom: explosions, prosthetic legs, dad jokes, scarecrows

Ray: brown clothes and lipstick, sarcasm memes

Nox: pink hair, bad driving, Jurassic Park raptors (art!)

Tally: hashmarks, business casual daywear

Grafitti: grafitti, bakeries, fancy cakes

Rence: murals, girls smoking aesthetic, snickerdoodle cookies

Watcher: eyes, ponies, squirrels

Kit: red hair, baby foxes, Corrie armour

Lucky: femboys, soft blankets, hooded sleeeveless jackets

Shrike: stabbing, thorns, medic kit

Carno: biting, hand tattoos, sharp teeth aesthetics

Bug: literally any insect lmao

Jaonyc: thunder, heat lightning, classical music

Yancy: beach photography, tide pools

Helio: sun art/photography, soccer teams

Vidal: green beans

Prim: primroses, pit droids, orange tabby kittens

Riye: the mir'shupur symbol i came up with, red and tan, toe spikes

Kryndi: bouquets, frogs, garden swing chairs

Cathedi: cacti, dogs, bandaged fingers, holding songbirds

Xerin: silver and blue jewellery, messy blond hair, stacks of books

Mirshko: peach colour, sci-fi-looking glasses, knee braces

Varkus: facial tattoos, red eyes, gold jewellery

Vermil: facial scars, messy buns, pointy decorative patterns

Vinir: droids, green, aro memes, knife memes, the last four gifs here

Valkyries: literally any lesbian and pirate aesthetics LOL

U'Rajya: sand desert scenery, banthas, bright rugs, turquoise and silver jewellery, Tusken head wraps, poly memes, strawberries

Button: mechanical keyboards, mint green colours, cat trees

Chromeblaze: 1940s cars, Michelle Yeoh's performances in Shang Chi and Rise of the Beasts, cars with those slightly glittery paint jobs

Demoiselle: cranes, 4x4 carts, estuaries

Goldshot: Jurassic Park jeeps and Dilophosaurus, hurricanes

Neutrobolt & Nitroblitz: twin aesthetics and red/blue combos

Nightflash: loud noises and bright colours, dumb jokes, objectively horrible songs that I still enjoy

Stormbrake: supercell storms, Optimus Prime, bright orange, diggers

Voltcast: the song Razorblade Raptor, sci-fi knives, mech animals

Rowan: dinosaurs, pride flags, gnc outfits, paleontology, skirts, ginger beer, western American deserts especially night scenes

[acarinarium]

Animal spotlight!

Starting off with a personal favourite, we have the cloak-and-dagger bees, genus Thyreus! I'd love to say they're my favourites because they're exceptionally interesting but it is mainly because I find them very cute and beautiful :3 I am not immune. Thyreus histrionicus (David Marquina Reyes) and Thyreus himalayensis (marcelfinlay on iNaturalist)

They are kleptoparasites, meaning that they lay their eggs in other bees' nests so their larvae can feed on pollen collected for the host's larvae, much like a cuckoo (lending various kleptoparasitic bees the title of cuckoo bees). They also often kill and eat their new nestmates.

One of my favourite things about them is their roosting behaviour. They sleep attached to twigs or dead plants by the mandibles! This isn't exclusive to the genus, many solitary bees sleep this way, particularly males. Here, two histrionic cloak-and-dagger bees can be seen roosting alongside some white-banded digger bees, Amegilla quadrifasciata (a species that they parasitise!). Image by David Marquina Reyes

And here is an articulated nomad bee (Nomada articulata, another cuckoo bee) doing the same! Image by jerremie on iNaturalist

[myrachidh]

Amegilla Bee ~ Amegilla quadrifasciata ~ White-banded Digger Bee ~ Amégille à quatre bandes ~ Note the Corbiculum; the yellow sack of pollen around the leg ~ Ain Sokhna ~ Red Sea Coast, Egypt

#Bee #Abeille #AmegillaBee #Amegilla #Amegillaquadrifasciata #White-bandedDiggerBee #Amégille #Amégilleàquatrebandes #Corbiculum #pollen #AinSokhna #RedSea #Egypt #insects #insectsofinstagram #Wildlife #wildlifephotography #Entomology~ https://www.flickr.com/photos/rachidh/albums

[pomodoriyum]

guess who got to see a white banded digger bee today!!!!!! (bragging)

[regnum-plantae]

Solandra maxima, Solanaceae

Within the resort where I was staying in, on the southern coast of Lanzarote, I found the winner of the category ‘showiest flower of the holiday’, and I was so happy it was a yellow one! Cup of gold is a stunning, vigorous liana native to  Mexico, Central America and northern South America, where it grows on well draining soils in sunny locations, scrambling over anything which might support the weight of its heavy, heavily branching, woody stems. I’ve seen only three plants in total, two of them were grown as round, free standing, 2.5m/~7ft tall shrubs, while the last was beginning to send a few stems creeping up a wall, but it can grow extensively to completely cover walls or porches in warm, frost free parts of the world. 

The flowers are large, trumpet-shaped and a warm, golden yellow, with five prominent maroon markings in correspondence with the main veins. They are reminiscent of those of two other large-flowered Solanaceae, the moonflower (Datura inoxia) and the angel trumpet (Brugmansia suaveolens), and all three species share the fact they’re highly toxic, with various effects, and are manipulated for this reason. Maybe I just didn’t notice more of these plants while walking around, but maybe it’s just not that common there, although its resistance to salty winds makes it an excellent candidate for ornamental planting in coastal areas. 

Bonus: two of the photos feature a white-banded digger bee (Amegilla quadrifasciata), a solitary, burrowing bee widespread from the Canary Islands through the Mediterranean and Southern and Central Europe to Central and East Asia. With its striking coloration I think I’d remember having seen it before in Italy, but I don’t think I had. Also, S. maxima is generally pollinated by nocturnal bats in its natural range, but bees are happy to oblige in their absence.         

[mimicmew]

🐛 For the fun gang perhaps?

ok ok this is gonna b long so! under the cut

Kris:

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they're a blue cloud forest millipede to me <3 You can find better photos online, but this one was better to source.

Susie:

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Antilles pinktoe tarantula baybee!!! she would love big spiders and bugs and tarantulas and

Ralsei:

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He is sooo a white banded digger bee to me. look at them and look at him and tell me they are not brothers in arms.

[peridots-pixiwolf]

oh boy I am memorizing Too Many Species Right Now!! Most of them are because I have bug characters

Here is all of the information I can gather directly from my mind right now:

(mentions of lots of arthropods and a cnidarian under the readmore!)

Sphecius convallis - the pacific cicada killer wasp, closely related to but not to be confused with the more well-known eastern cicada killer, in the same genus with the species name speciosus. It's a tannish-orange color with yellow and off white markings, primarily on its face and abdomen.

Parides montezuma - Montezuma's cattleheart, a black butterfly with bright red markings on the tips of its forewings and on its abdomen, grayish stripes also marking the latter.

Dynastes tityus - the eastern hercules beetle, one of the horned beetles in a dull greenish-yellow, with black freckles on the elytra, as well as a black elytral/prothoracal "margin", prothoracal horn and head. It has tan fur on the undersides of said horn, as well as thorax and abdomen. As with most (all?) horned beetles the horn is only present in males.

Apis mellifera - way too prevalent for me to forget ever, the western/european honeybee. This is the bee that is normally and widely domesticated for honey. It has a light brown head and thorax and (in workers) a yellowish and dark brown banded abdomen, and is one of the rare social species of bees. While western honeybee numbers are in fact decreasing, they aren't close to extinction and are competing with native bees, who ARE indeed endangered.

Polistes olivaceus - commonly referred to as the yellow paper wasp, yellow oriental paper wasp or Macao paper wasp. Yellow, with thin and numerous tan, brown or black bands all along its body.

Sphex pensylvanicus - the great black wasp, or great black digger wasp. It's pretty notable for being all-black with metallic, dark blue wings, and was probably first examined in Pensylvania, U.S. considering the species name but can be found in several places that are Not There in the country. I found a dead one on the side of the road and I put her in my house

Tachypompilus ferrugineus - The rusty spider wasp. It's one that preys on spiders (several? only one?), dragging it (them?) back to her nest to lay eggs on. I've already nerded out about this for a reason, because seeing a red wasp with metallic blue wings drag a wolf spider 2x her size across your front lawn into a hole of unknown depth is a memorable experience.

Polydrusus impressifrons - A weevil. It's sort of pale lime green, sparkling with yellows and darker greens in the elytra chitin, which notably to me is not smooth but rather has straight thin "valley"s carved through it from end to end? I'm sure there's a better word for it but I can't currently remember.

Pleurobrachia pileus - A jellyfish called a sea gooseberry along with the other member of its genus. ...It looks like a drop of water.

Myrmecocystus mexicanus - An ant in one of the genuses holding those known as honeypot ants, but it's not really said if the species itself is in fact one with modified honeypot workers, so I assume it probably isn't? Workers are a light golden-tan, with the head being a bit darker.

Cranjon cranjon - It's a thin light brown shrimp, that iirc is often caught for food. I just think the name is cool

Vespula maculifrons/germanica/vulgaris - three very similar-looking species of yellowjacket in the same genus, the former called the eastern yellowjacket and both the latter called european yellowjackets, though germanica is also called the german wasp while vulgaris is called the common wasp. They're basically what the average person thinks of when hearing the word wasp, with striking bands of black and yellow. They construct papery nests despite not being part of Polistes, and I can't exactly remember their differences currently? There's a tree in my area they were all swarming around about a week ago and I fed them italian ice before one was carried away and eaten mid-flight by a larger bald-faced hornet. Fun times.

I can't remember the scientific name of this one, but it is most commonly referred to as Avispa de caballo (Horse's wasp, not to be confused with horse guard wasp) and it bears close resemblance to cicada killers, due to them both being sand wasps.

Megaloblatta longipennis - one of, if not, the largest species of cockroach. I don't know why I remember this?

Lampyris noctiluca - a species of lampyrid beetle, of which is otherwise known as a firefly or lightning bug, or a glowworm for the larvae and the larviform adult females. The species is one of the most commonly seen fireflies, I believe?

Coenagrion puella - a damselfly species. The male imagos are blue, while the females are green or brown, and both have black abdominal bands and thoracic stripes. It's one of the species that folds its forelegs up near its head.

Strategus aloeus - the ox beetle. It's chestnut brown, with the males having one long forward-facing prothoracic horn and two smaller ones facing back. It doesn't have haired elytra like Pygopleurus, but the underside sure is fluffy!

And that's not even counting all the times I nerded out while writing this, like about how cockroaches are actually most related to termites and that taxon is the sister group of mantises, or how brush-footed butterflies (including monarchs!) do the same thing (as puella) with their reduced forelegs tucked up behind their head so they stand on fours, or how odonates have such large eyes and great vision that they catch their prey 90% of the time, being the most successful hunters, and can predict said prey's movement. Or counting the many nudibranchs I remember the appearances, but not the names, of in vivid detail

Anyway. Uh. Writing this felt way shorter than the time it took. Goodbye

[datodinicshit]

Some songs that make me think of Odin.

Hothouse by 78violet

House of the Rising Sun by Lauren O'Connell

Gun in My Hand by Dorothy

Dear Fellow Traveller by Sea Wolf

Growing Pains by Maria Mena

The Ballad of Curtis Loew by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Gold Digger by Kanye West, Jamie Foxx

Girl with One Eye by Florence + the Machine

He's a Rebel by The Crystals

In One Ear by Cage the Elephant

He's a Tramp by Peggy Lee from Lady and the Tramp

Guitar Man by Jerry Reed

Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars

Only the Good Die Young by Billy Joel

I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme) by John Rzeznik from Treasure Planet

Icky Thump by The White Stripes

Lonely Boy by The Black Keys

R U Mine? by Arctic Monkeys

Bad Moon Rising by CCR

The Joker by Steve Miller Band

(Ghost) Riders in the Sky by Johnny Cash

Once Upon a Dream by Lana Del Ray from Maleficent

Come with Me Now by KONGOS

Left Hand Free by alt-J

Lightning Bolt by Jake Bug

Same Old Train by multiple artists from the Tribute to Tradition Marty Stuart Album

Witch by the bird and the bee

And Am I Born to Die by Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Hurray For The Riff Raff

Hurt by Johnny Cash

(You're The) Devil in Disguise by Elvis Presley

Long Time Traveller by The Wailin' Jennys

Desperado by Rihanna

Soldier, Poet, King by The Oh Hellos

You Are My Sunshine by Morgan Stapleton with Chris Stapleton

Work Song by Hozier

Moonage Daydream by David Bowie

My Boy Builds Coffins by Florence + the Machine

Miracle Aligner by The Last Shadow Puppets

Dancing with Mr. D by The Rolling Stones

High Flying Gypsy by Inglorious

Dearly Departed by Shakey Graves feat. Esmé Patterson

I've Been Everywhere by Johnny Cash

I'll Fly Away by Jillian Welch, Alison Krauss from O Brother, Where Art Thou

Lola by The Kinks

In Spite of Ourselves by John Prine, Iris DeMent

Raise Hell by Brandi Carlile

Mustang Sally by Wilson Pickett

Witchy Woman by The Eagles

Sunshine (Go Away Today) by Jonathan Edwards

Hail to the King by Avenged Sevenfold

Carolina in My Mind by James Taylor

Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin

It Will Come Back by Hozier

And So It Goes by Billy Joel

Stuck in the Middle with You by Stealers Wheel

Behind Blue Eyes by The Who

Come Together by Gary Clark Jr., Junkie XL

New Blood by Zayde Wølf

Pour Whiskey on My Grave by Jacob Bryant

Tell Me True by Sarah Jarosz

Oh Death by Spiros Maus, Bellabeth

Storm Comin' by The Wailin' Jennys

[iluvalgarve]

White-banded Digger Bee (Amegilla quadrifasciata) from piazzi1969 https://ift.tt/2MlbkVw

[floofsta-x]

15 and 16!

♥︎

15: Favorite Song oml I can never choose just one, I have so many favorite songs. I tried listing them all earlier and afterward I was like ‘oh hey, I forgot -insert song here- and -insert group here-’. ahh. 

2pm A.D.T.O.Y, Sexy Lady (Wooyoung)BIGBANG Bang Bang Bang, Fantastic BabyBIock B (Block B – BASTARZ), NalinA, Nillili Mambo (Zero for Conduct)Boys Republic Get DownBTS Blood Sweat and Tears, Lie (Jimin)Cross Gene Amazing - Bad Lady, KkiGOT7 If You DoHISTORY Lost, Psycho, QueenInfinite BadKNK Back Again, Tonight, UMad Clown and Jooheon Get LowMamamoo AAH OOP!, You’re the BestMonsta X All In, Be Quiet, Fighter, Hero, Rush, White Love/White GirlPentagon Can You Feel It, Gorilla, Pretty PrettySeventeen BoomBoomSnuper It’s Raining, So Much in LoveSS301 21gram, Pain, Remove, SaxophoneSuper Junior Bonamana, Mamacita, Mr. Simple, Sexy Free and SingleTaemin Press Your NumberTaeyang Eyes Nose Lips, Ringa LingaT.O.P Turn it UpToppDogg Arario, The BeatVIXX Fantasy

Non-Kpop

AC/DC Hells Bells, Shake a LegThe Beatles Don’t Let Me DownBig Bad Voodoo Daddy Mr. Pinstripe SuitBruno Mars TreasureCaravan Palace Lone Digger, WonderlandThe Commodores Brick HouseDef Leppard Comin’ Under Fire, Foolin’, Hysteria, Lady Strange, Let it Go, Love Bites, Rocket, Too Late for Love, WomenDerek and the Dominoes/Eric Clapton LaylaDisciple The Wait is OverGuns N’ Roses Nightrain, Sweet Child o’ Mine, Welcome to the JungleHere Come the Mummies Funky Little BabyJamiroquai RunawayJimi Hendrix Voodoo Child (Slight Return)Kutless It’s Like Me, Not What You See, To Know That You’re AliveMichael Jackson Bad, Smooth CriminalMötley Crüe Mr. Feelgood, Smokin’ in the Boys RoomNeil Young Don’t Let it Bring You DownOliver Heldens Ghost, WombassPharell Williams HappyPhil Collins In the Air TonightSkid Row 18 and Life, Youth Gone WildSkillet Awake and Alive, Collide, Comatose, Hero, Lucy, RebirthingSpyro Gyra Morning DanceStevie Ray Vaughan Dirty Pool, Honey Bee, Pride and Joy, Scuttle Buttin’, Texas FloodStevie Wonder Sir Duke, SuperstitionThousand Foot Krutch Rawkfist, Step to MeThrottle Money MakerTower of Power Attitude Dance, Diggin’ on James Brown, Soul with a Capital S, What is HipVan Halen Dreams, Jump, Panama

At this point, it’s like, do I give up? Do I keep going? I’ve listened to and liked so much in my lifetime. This list doesn’t even include any Band, Orchestra, Choral, and Film score stuff halp OR JAZZ NO

16. Favorite Film This is a lot simpler haha. My all time favorite film is Pacific Rim! I love mechs, I have since childhood, so when that movie came out I fell in love with it and then the extended lore whoo baby. 

General get to know me questions! Send me some? :3

[bllueh]

What is your definition of “natural”? According to biology, the definition is existing in or caused by nature; not made or caused by humankind. 

Nature doesn’t follow your heteronormative definition. An example, whip tail lizards (C. inornatus, C. neomexicanus and C. tigris), are a female-only species that reproduces by producing an egg through parthenogenesis. Despite reproducing asexually, and being an all-female species, the whiptail still engages in mating behavior with other females of its own species. You want to know some more mammals that have been known to exhibit homosexual behavior? The Bison, Brown bear, Brown rat, Chimpanzee, Common dolphin, Common marmoset, Elephant, Fox, Giraffe, Goat, Koala, Lion, Orca, Panda, and Raccoon. How about some birds? Here we have Barn owl, Chicken, Common gull, Emu, House sparrow, Kestrel, King penguin, Mallard, Ostrich, Raven, Rock dove, Seagull, Swan, Turkey, and Vulture. Is that not enough? How about some fish? We’ve got the Amazon molly, Blackstripe topminnow, Bluegill sunfish, Char, Grayling, European bitterling, Green swordtail, Guiana leaffish, Houting whitefish, Jewel fish, Least darter (Microperca punctulata), Mouthbreeding fish, Southern platyfish, Ten-spined stickleback, Three-spined stickleback. But wait! I haven’t even talked about my personal favorite (y’know, working towards herpetology and all), the reptiles! There is the Anole, Bearded dragon, Blue-tailed day gecko (Phelsuma cepediana), Broad-headed skink, Checkered whiptail lizard, Chihuahuan spotted whiptail lizard, Common ameiva, Common garter snake, Cuban green anole, Desert grassland whiptail lizard, Desert tortoise, Fence lizard, Five-lined skink, Gold dust day gecko (Phelsuma laticauda), Gopher (pine) snake, Inagua curlytail lizard, Jamaican giant anole, Laredo striped whiptail lizard, Largehead anole, Mourning gecko, Plateau striped whiptail lizard, Red diamond rattlesnake, Red-tailed skink, Seychelles giant tortoise, Side-blotched lizard, Speckled rattlesnake, Water moccasin, Western rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis), Western banded gecko, and Wood turtle. But wait, there’s more! The insects and amphibians! Alfalfa weevil, Australian parasitic wasp, Bean weevil, Bedbug, Blister beetle, Blowfly, Broadwinged damselfly, Cabbage (small) white (butterfly), Checkerspot butterfly, Club-tailed dragonfly, Cockroach, Common skimmer dragonfly, Creeping water bug, Cutworm, Digger bee, Dragonfly, Eastern giant ichneumon wasp, Eucalyptus longhorned borer, Field cricket, Flour beetle, Fruit fly, Glasswing butterfly, Hypoponera opacior ant, Grape berry moth, Grape borer, Green lacewing, Hen flea, House fly, Ichneumon wasp, Japanese scarab beetle, Larch bud moth, Large milkweed bug, Large white, Long-legged fly, Mazarine blue, Mexican white (butterfly), Midge, Migratory locust, Monarch butterfly, Narrow-winged damselfly, Parsnip leaf miner, Pomace fly, Queen butterfly, Red ant, Red flour beetle, Reindeer warble fly (Hypoderma tarandi), Rose chafer(Macrodactylus subspinosus), Rove beetle, Scarab beetle, Screwworm fly, Silkworm moth, Southeastern blueberry bee, Southern green stink bug, Southern masked chafer, Southern one-year canegrub, Spreadwinged damselfly, Spruce budworm moth, Stable fly, Stag beetle, Tsetse fly, Water boatman bug, Water strider, Appalachian woodland salamander, Black-spotted frog, Mountain dusky salamander, and the Tengger desert toad.

I have more too, if you’re actually interested in animals exhibiting homosexual behavior, y’know, because it’s natural and present in nature and animal behavior. 

But Nature doesn’t agree, so stop trying to use biology as an excuse to be homophobic. What was it that you said? “It’s simply stating the cold, hard facts”? 

Same sex marriage support in the United States.

[iluvalgarve]

White-banded Digger Bee (Amegilla quadrifasciata) from piazzi1969 https://ift.tt/2mEyE7K

[myrachidh]

Amegilla Bee ~ Amegilla quadrifasciata ~ White-banded Digger Bee ~ Amégille à quatre bandes Ain Sokhna, Red Sea Coast, Egypt Note the Corbiculum; the yellow sack of pollen around the leg. #AmegillaBee #Bee #Amegilla #Amegilaquadrifasciata #White-banded_Digger_Bee #Amégille #Amégilleàquatrebandes #AinSokhna #RedSea #Egypt #pollensack #Pollen #Corbiculae #corbiculum #Entomology #macros #macrophotography #macroofinstagram #abeilles #papillons #insects #insectsofinstagram #InsectsofEgypt #Wildlife #wildlifephotography ~ https://www.flickr.com/photos/rachidh/albums (at MaAdi, cairo , Egypt) https://www.instagram.com/p/BssVrTMByJa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bou1y40gyj45