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[Profile pic: drawing of blue jay screaming, by @hannah. Header: the brick beach of the Leslie St. Spit, Toronto.]
Middle-aged lady, seeing me hunched over peering into the Queen Anne's Lace (_Daucus carota_) in a garden bed at the park: "Did you find it?"
Me, in an "oh my god, it's full of stars" tone: "I found them *ALL*!"
Lady, looking at the flowers: "They're beautiful, aren't they."
Me: "I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing but YES."
#bloomscrolling #bugstodon #insects #beetles #Coleoptera #Dermestidae #ArthroBeauty
So I don't think I mentioned this on here, but a couple weeks ago, walking to the grocery store, I was surprised to find a couple of *beautiful* metallic green sweat bees peeking out of burrows in a rather weedy, neglected, half-bare corner of yard, right by the sidewalk. Today I saw them again and was taking pictures when one of the residents was coming home. I was like, "Did you know you have BEES" and pointed them out to her, and she was very excited! She mentioned they make sure to leave leaf litter over the winter for better insect habitat. I went on my way and when I glanced back she was also stooping down to take pictures of them.
#bugstodon #insects #bees #NativeBees #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Halictidae
