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disco bee
melissodes longhorn bee with a disco ball
August 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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someone curlicued this Melissodes
May 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Common Longhorn Bee
(Melissodes communis)
Coreopsis flower
January 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Blue-eyes & white leg warmers
2-spotted longhorn bee (2/4)
(Melissodes bimaculatus)

on butterfly milkweed
7-6-25

#westRidgeNaturePark #macro #photography #native #bees #flowers #milkweed #Melissodes #pollinators #bloomscrolling #insects #bugs #art #ColorADay #BlueTue #eastCoastKin #nature #chicago
Lateral 📸 Olympus 90mm ISO200 f11 1/250
July 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Male dark-veined longhorn bee
(Melissodes trinodis)

shakes water from itself on the tip of a tiger lilly yesterday morning in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood.

#macro #photography #native #bees #melissodes #nature #pollinators #flowers #gardens #gardening #art #macroMonday #eastCoastKin
Less than 3 seconds from take off. 📸 Olympus OM-3 90mm ISO200 f13 1/250
August 25, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Male denticulate longhorn bee
(Melissodes denticulatus)

On Ironweed flower
Late August in Chicago

#pollinators #bees #longhornbees #melissodes #flowers #ironweed #nature #naturalist #macro #photography #gardening #gardens #nativeBees #chicagoparks #communitygardens #insects #bugs #summer 🐝 🌼
February 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Male dark-veined longhorn bee (Melissodes trinodis) 🐝

Late August 2024, on a backyard sunflower.

#nativeBees #longhorn #melissodes #bees #Macro #macroPhotography #insects #photography #chicago #nature #naturePhotography #sunflowers #gardens #gardening #longhornBees #bugs #native #pollinators
February 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
grays.art
On-point
Male dark-veined longhorn bee (Melissodes trinodis) 🐝

Taken August 2024 on a backyard sunflower.

#nativeBees #longhorn #melissodes #bees #Macro #macroPhotography #insects #photograohy #chicago #nature #naturePhotography #sunflowers #gardens #gardening #longhornBees #bugs #native
November 29, 2024 at 5:29 PM
grays.art
Verticality
Series’ end
Two-spotted longhorn bee (4/4)
(Melissodes bimaculatus)

on butterfly milkweed
7-6-25

#westRidgeNaturePark #macro #photography #native #bees #flowers #milkweed #Melissodes #pollinators #bloomscrolling #insects #bugs #art #nature #chicago #eastCoastKin #insectThursday
9x16 📸 Olympus 90mm ISO200 f11 1/250
July 10, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Two-spotted longhorn bee (1/4)
(Melissodes bimaculatus)

pollinating butterfly milkweed
yesterday in Chicago
#westRidgeNaturePark

#macro #photography #native #bees #flowers #milkweed #Melissodes #pollinators #bloomscrolling #insects #bugs #art #macroMonday #eastCoastKin #nature #chicago #longhorns
Tête-à-tête 📸 Olympus 90mm ISO200 f11 1/250
July 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Horizontallity
Two-spotted longhorn bee (3/4)
(Melissodes bimaculatus)

on butterfly milkweed
7-6-25

#westRidgeNaturePark #macro #photography #native #bees #flowers #milkweed #Melissodes #pollinators #bloomscrolling #insects #bugs #art #nature #chicago #ColorADay #RedWed #eastCoastKin
Her world 1 📸 Olympus 90mm ISO200 f11 1/250
July 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Mine, all mine! Monarch and Melissodes
Monarch and Melissodes
September 29, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Soaked male 2-spotted longhorn bee
(Melissodes bimaculatus)

Post evening shower
July 24th, 2025 in Chicago ☮️

#macro #photography #native #bees #flowers #Melissodes #pollinators #bloomscrolling #insects #bugs #art #ColorADay #YellowThu #smArtist #condensation #AbstractAug #flowers #eastcoastkin 🐝
Wet wet bee 📸 Olympus 90mm ISO200 f11 1/250
August 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Male dark-veined longhorn bee II
(Melissodes trinodis) 🐝

Side view, August 2024, on a backyard sunflower.

#nativeBees #longhorn #melissodes #bees #Macro #macroPhotography #insects #photography #chicago #nature #naturePhotography #sunflowers #gardens #gardening #longhornBees #bugs #pollinators
Lateral view at tippy top of sunflower petal.
February 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
grays.art
Keep those antennae clean!

Male dark-veined longhorn bee / sunflower

Melissodes trinodis in July, backyard again

Hope Monday’s copacetic

#nativeBees #bees #longhornBees #macro #photography #nature #handHeld #pollinators #sunflowers #flowers #garden #gardening #chicago #entymology #melissodes
January 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
mhedin.bsky.social
native Melissodes bee, from our local desert, a couple of weeks back. visiting abundant Isocoma flowers

#macro
small bee visiting yellow flower
November 16, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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Female dark-veined longhorn bee
on cultivated sunflower

(Melissodes trinodis)
Cleaning her proboscis

July in Chicago.
Planting more sunflowers tomorrow.

#MacroMonday #macro #pollinators #native
#EastCoastKin #photography #PhotographersUnited #nativeBees
April 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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“She’s right behind me, isn’t she?”

Longhorn Bee (Melissodes sp.)
#InverteFest
A back top down view of a Longhorn bee clutching the tip of a sunflower petal. Its head is slightly turned.
August 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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2025 top ten: #8

Female Dark-veined longhorn bee
(Melissodes trinodis)

on homegrown sunflower 8-21-25
in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood.

#xmas #eastcoastkin #insectThursday #macro #photography #native #bees #pollen #flowers #nature #art #gardens #gardening #bugSky #pollinators #sunflower
Pollen face & tongue extension.
December 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Bbbbbbbbbbbbeeeeeees
Sketchy in progress Melissodes ID guide
August 16, 2026 at 3:23 AM
bugvibes.bsky.social
Stuff those pockets with pollen girl.

A favorite. Melissodes sp. an Ironweed specialist whose babies need this specific pollen to develop.
January 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
grays.art
Female dark-veined longhorn bee / crimson sunflower

(Melissodes trinodis)

She’s enjoying a flower grown from a seed in a few feet of earth between porch & parking pad. 🥰

Late August in Chicago.

#nativeBees #Bees #nature #flowers #pollinators #gardens #gardening #macro #photography #melissodes 🐝
January 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
jencross.bsky.social
A reminder of warm weather and sunny skies.
Denticulate Longhorn Bee (Melissodes denticulatus)
#ArtAdventCalendar
A small fuzzy bee with light greenish eyes and long antennae. It is sipping on nectar on a bright yellow flower with darker greens in the background.
December 6, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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Close up
Female dark-veined longhorn bee
on cultivated sunflower

(Melissodes trinodis)
April 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Side view of her
Lateral Female Dark-veined longhorn bee (Melissodes trinodis)
August 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM