Bee Lines

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A fuzzy bee

I’m on an email listserv for people who study bees. Not honeybees (goodness, no, not honeybees). All the other bees. There are some 20,000 species of bees in the world. Tiny metallic green ones, big fuzzy ones, and everything in between.

I rarely read the emails – it’s more fun to imagine what they might be based on the subject lines. So I share, for your delight, a few from the last year.

When did bumblebees arrive in South America?
Multi-egg days
Bees on a vacation to Egypt
Bees on American chestnut
Bumble bees sleeping in flowers
Alaska bumble bee guide
Bees in space
Hylaeus defending flowers

Imagine the bees with little sunhats and cameras, gawking at the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Photo: USGS Bee Inventory & Monitoring Lab

One thought on “Bee Lines

  1. Delightful. Bees in space immediately calls to mind the Muppets, for me. Pigs–er, Bees…. in…. space!

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