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diese ackerhummel war so emsig, fast unmöglich da ein gutes bild zu bekommen. ich hab so an die 20 geschossen, auf der hälfte war sie schon wieder nicht drauf, nur die 3 sind was geworden, und auch die nur fast :3

This might be a record for me: 16 mason bee cocoons in a single nesting tube. The ones are on the left are larger and likely all females. The smaller ones on the right are males, who emerge first and then wait for females to come out. It's really cool how hymenopterans can control the sex of eggs they lay (males are from unfertilized eggs). Osmia georgica. #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #bees #cocoons #insects #pollinators #hymenoptera #osmia #haplodiploidy

🐛💙 Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra made a surprising finding while examining museum specimens: caddisfly larvae from the early #1970s were already incorporating microplastics into their protective casings.

These #underwater #insects normally build tubes from pebbles, sand, and plant matter. Finding plastic in 50-year-old specimens from non-urban streams shows how long these pollutants have affected even relatively pristine ecosystems.

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/m

"“The thing is, when you see a healthy forest, like Ngong forest, you don’t think about what is making it healthy. It is the relationships all the way from the bacteria to the ants to the bigger things,” he said.

Muruthi warned of the risk of trafficking species and exporting diseases to the agricultural industry of the destination countries."

#Africa #Kenya #Science #Ants #Insects

apnews.com/article/garden-ants

Belgian nationals Lornoy David, left, and Seppe Lodewijckx, right, who admitted to charges related to the illegal possession and trafficking of live queen ants to sell as exotic pets, appear at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Law Courts in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, April. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
AP News · Belgian teens arrested with 5,000 smuggled ants as Kenya warns of changing trafficking trendsBy Evelyne Musambi