Category: Marc Newman

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  Living dangerously…

  aka The Bee and the Spider… Author Marc Newman ◦ The drama took place on a Yellow Button (Chrysocephalum apiculatum)… It wasn’t obvious to me, until I looked back at the photos on the monitor (the photos are in time… Continue reading

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  What’s the buzz…

  Author Marc Newman and friends ◦ Our BBB (Blue Banded Bee) and Lipotriches muscosa are both buzz pollinators. On this flowering Nandina, is it a matter of who got here first… The Nandina is nearing the end of flowering, and… Continue reading

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  Looking for Love…

  Author Marc Newman ◦ This male Dawson’s Burrowing Bee is checking if a female may be forthcoming. I doubt there was room to turn around and we didn’t see them backing in so this male is probably just entering the… Continue reading

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  Too much for Mrs Carpenter Bee

  Author Marc Newman ◦ Our miserable cold weather of the last two days was too much for Mrs. Carpenter Bee, who we found on our back steps waiting for the sun to warm her up. I could see her breathing… Continue reading