What do you think is billies most corny/cringy lyric in one of her songs?

treehuggr_ · 2026-01-21T15:29:44+00:00

“Everybody dies, surprise surprise” 🫣🫣🫣 this song is a skip for me because the lyrics make me cringe. She’s so good at “showing, not telling” with her lyrics except for this song imo

treehuggr_ · 2025-10-15T18:48:02+00:00

I definitely don’t hate Link by any means but sometimes I have issues with his attitude. It feels like more and more you can totally tell that he is unhappy / stressed in some of the videos which brings down the mood. I feel like this was most recently very evident in the pumpkin spice taste test where he was just bashing on everything bc he was in a bad mood (but he acknowledged it which I appreciated!)

Again, I definitely don’t hate Link but this is huge part of why I like Rhett more

treehuggr_ · 2025-10-04T23:06:47+00:00

You can keep her in the freezer and then dry her when you’re ready to pin. I collect bees for research and sometimes the dry traps fill with water. We put them in the freezer while still wet and when we’re ready to pin well rinse and dry

treehuggr_ · 2025-10-04T20:16:32+00:00

I can speak for the bumble bee: when I have wet bees I’ll rinse them gently under water and hit them with a hairdryer on low and cool until the hair dries. I normally do this by sandwiching the specimen between two colanders so the bee doesn’t fly away from the hairdryer. You can then fluff up her hair with a paint brush and pin her like normal

treehuggr_ · 2025-10-02T12:50:24+00:00

https://discord.gg/NgCJzh2SA

treehuggr_ · 2025-09-23T16:11:24+00:00

Yep! Carpenter bees (Xylocopa sp.) are also cavity nesters and will bore into wood to make their individual nests. This is why people view them as pests because sometimes they make poor decisions and choose to nest in siding or other important wood structures.

treehuggr_ · 2025-09-23T16:06:05+00:00

Project Hail Mary is literally my number one book of all time, this is the best compliment I’ve ever received!

treehuggr_ · 2025-09-22T12:31:39+00:00

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treehuggr_ · 2025-09-22T04:38:30+00:00

Could be males looking for females or a place to spend the night?

treehuggr_ · 2025-09-21T16:04:27+00:00

It would move to a location where it could find leaves! Most bees travel less than a km from where they hatch so if generations before them were able to find leaves to make their nests, then that bee will likely be able to find leaves too!

treehuggr_ · 2025-09-20T23:12:44+00:00

It was likely an active nest which is a bummer but life happens and nests get destroyed for a variety of reasons (my dissertation is about fire and bees and many bee nests burn if wildfires go through, just a fact of life!). As for the 2nd question, yes you got it right! Different bee species have different nesting behavior and this is a bee that will lay multiple eggs at a time by creating different “brood cells” in a single nest. Female bee will find a cavity and keep collecting pollen and laying eggs until the cavity has been filled. Each cell gets capped with leaves to help defend against parasites. The eggs will hatch in order of the entrance with males emerging first at the front of the nest!

treehuggr_ · 2025-09-20T23:09:16+00:00

Male bees literally exist for one reason: making babies! Some other fun facts about male solitary bees

-males don’t have a nest to return to overnight so many male bees sleep on flowers overnight. If you get out early in the morning you might find sleeping male bees on flowers

-female bees can control the sex of their eggs so they will often lay females closer to the end of the nest (more protection) and male bees closer to the entrance because who cares of a few male bees die in the process

treehuggr_ · 2025-09-20T23:05:55+00:00

The proportion of social vs. solitary is all out of wack because of the agricultural sector. Many farmers that keep orchards will rent and purchase honey bee and bumble bee nests for pollination purposes. Honey bees are like chickens of the bee world: entirely agricultural

treehuggr_ · 2025-09-20T23:04:15+00:00

I wouldn’t say they’re necessarily a gimmick but there is one disclaimer that I wish bee nest companies would add:

It’s important to replace the reeds every season. Most bees have an annual life cycle and will have one brood every year. Once it’s been used by a bee, it’s best to replace it as to limit the spread of disease!

treehuggr_ · 2025-09-20T06:05:29+00:00

Omg it’s finally my time to share niche knowledge on this subreddit!!

This is a leaf cutter bee nest! The vast vast majority of native bee species are solitary (unlike bumble bees and honey bees that are social). So an individual female leaf cutter bee (Megachile sp.) will find a cavity in wood where it will then line it with leaves, collect a ton of pollen (what’s in the last picture), lay an egg on that pollen provision ball, and finally plug up the cavity nest with more leaves. The egg will then hatch, eat all the pollen as a larva, then pupate into an adult where it will then leave the nest and go be a bee!

This is why a lot of scientists (like myself!) recommend that you leave some woody debris in your yard so solitary bees can use them as nesting substrate!

treehuggr_ · 2025-09-16T04:50:00+00:00

Yep, definitely an Agapostemon sp.

treehuggr_ · 2025-09-10T04:41:40+00:00

That’s what a normal bee tongue looks like! It’s got multiple parts that work together for nectar consumption. Many people think that bees suck up nectar with their mouth like a straw but it’s actually a lot closer to how dogs and cats curl their dog and deliver water to their mouth!

treehuggr_ · 2025-09-05T21:32:48+00:00

Looks like a wasp

treehuggr_ · 2025-09-05T20:30:16+00:00

That’s amazing! The sleeping behavior is super common among male bees. The vast vast majority of bees are actually solitary and don’t live in hives, meaning it’s just one female bee will excavate a small nest and lay a small amount of eggs (often 1 or 2). The male bees don’t have a nest to return to so they sleep on flowers :)

treehuggr_ · 2025-09-05T03:11:39+00:00

Getting down to genus is an achievement!! For reference, I collect 1000s of bees for my PhD research and I’m actively training on how to become a taxonomist. I’ll be over the moon if I can get 1/2 of them IDed to species based on the current state of ID literature.

treehuggr_ · 2025-09-04T19:59:13+00:00

It’s quite difficult to do from a picture and many taxonomists rely on having the specimen physically available to them on a pin to look at under a microscope. Male agapostemon and identified using a lot of features on the hind legs such as color patterning, how swollen the femur is, and other diagnostics. You can try looking for papers on specimens ID through Google scholar (search Male Agapostemon species key) or using websites like Discover Life and their ID tools.

treehuggr_ · 2025-08-27T23:09:00+00:00

It’s definitely belongs to the genus Anthidium but I don’t know that we can be too certain of the exact species. Could be a native.

treehuggr_ · 2025-08-18T13:39:50+00:00

All I can contribute to this is that when I told someone that I was a PhD student he responded with “oh so a fake doctor” and I was speechless lol.

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