Congratulations Kit @bee.babette_performer I’ve seen how hard Kit’s worked over the last decade, and it’s absolutely brilliant she’s now named a bee. We need more like her-funded, surveying, discovering. Because right now we’re losing species faster than we’re finding them-thanks to pesticides, thanks to Queensland’s brilliant idea of poisoning everything that buzzes. Get behind her. Otherwise the next bee she names won’t be ‘Lucifer’-it’ll be ‘Last One Ever’. | Save the Bees Australia

6.7K views · 72 reactions | USFS aquatic biologist Stephanie Barnes is helping educate Creek Fire firefighters about the threatened Yosemite toad along Kaiser Pass Road Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. | The Fresno Bee | Facebook

Many native bee species are pollen specialists - they require the pollen from one or a few different native genera of plants. Without these native flowers, these bees cannot survive. The Spring Beauty Miner Bee (Andrena erigeniae) is one such example, and I was excited to see them in action pollinating a streamside patch of spring beauties (Claytonia virginiana)! #bees #nativebees #spring #springbeauty #native #plants #nativeplants #flowers #insects #savethebees #fyp #gardening #garden | Andrew