World Honeybee Day!

Thanks to all the observers who've gotten all the observations of honeybees across the world. Being in the US, I've gotten many observations of the non-native Western Honeybee, which is doing well, although I've seen it come to the ground apparently in search of water, according to other iNaturalists (thank you!), in really hot times. Right now it's doing a rare rain and I'm seeing less bees in my yard...except of course, some honeybees are still here.
Tell me about your memorable honeybee experiences!
What I remember has to do with community. We had a long discussion in the comments of one of my honeybee observations about what the bees are doing on the ground, concluding that they're looking for water, and that you should give them a place to land if you set water out for them (which is a nice idea!). But then someone else joined in and said that this would be encouraging invasive species, which is something I hadn't thought about before. So thanks to everyone who helped with that!
And another time I talked about honeybees with the community is when I saw some bees come to the flowers (many native) in my yard and they seemed to fly or look a bit different than the other honeybees which I had gotten used to. So I thought, these are different. But two more people told me that the only honeybee in the Western hemisphere is...the western honeybee. They also gave me some recommended reading. As you can see, I'm not the most experienced, but I'd love to learn.
Let's give it up for World Honeybee Day!
Just one more thing: those outside the western hemisphere, I would love to find out about what honeybees you've seen. I'm very interested in this!
Have a great World Honeybee Day.
Explore more: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=538904

Publicado el agosto 21, 2021 07:03 TARDE por iamsharkgirl