案例简介：Karine Aigner @ kaigner | 当我们想到蜜蜂和拯救它们的努力时，我们经常会想到蜜蜂。蜜蜂在1600年代被带到美国，以帮助给农作物授粉和制造蜂蜜。当蜜蜂被带入 “果园” 进行授粉时，它们有时会诉诸于本地景观，通常比本地蜜蜂争夺食物。本地蜜蜂 (其中一些是栖息地专家) 经常被忽视，甚至可能比进口的表亲更为重要。去年春天，在德克萨斯州南部，我遇到了Diadasia rinconis，又名仙人掌蜂 (或有人称之为烟囱蜂)。仙人掌蜜蜂是地巢和花粉专家，我花了几天时间看着雌性挖掘它们各自的洞穴，留下看起来像火山的小土丘。在她的隧道尽头，蜜蜂挖了几个房间，并在每个房间的一团花粉上生了一个卵。几周后，她的新血统出现了。耐心等待盛开的花朵的雄蜂下降了。他们在混乱的球中包围着一位新出现的女性-最强的男性获胜。所有其他人都消失了，获胜的雄性将在分开之前与雌性交配。我很荣幸找到了几个筑巢仙人掌蜜蜂的地方，看着我们很少注意到的昆虫世界中的一些令人难以置信的行为。# 本土蜜蜂 # 仙人掌 # 德克萨斯野生动物 # 动物

案例简介：Photo by Karine Aigner @kaigner | When we think of bees and the efforts to save them, we often think of the honeybee. Honeybees were brought to America in the 1600s to help pollinate crops and to make honey. When the “orchard” the honeybees were brought in to pollinate stops blooming, they will sometimes resort to native landscapes, often outcompeting native bees for food. Native bees, some of them habitat specialists, are often overlooked, and possibly even more critical than their imported cousins. Last spring in South Texas, I met Diadasia rinconis, aka the cactus bee (or chimney bee, as some call it). Cactus bees are ground-nesters and pollen specialists, and I spent days watching females excavating their individual burrows, leaving small, volcanic-looking mounds. At the end of her tunnel, the bee digs out several rooms and lays a single egg on a wad of pollen in each. Weeks later, her new brood emerges. Male bees, which have been patiently waiting in blooming flowers, descend. They surround a newly emerging female in a chaotic ball—the strongest male wins. All the others fall away, and the winning male will mate with the female before they part ways. I was privileged to have found several sites of nesting cactus bees, watching some of the incredible behaviors in the insect world we so seldom notice. #nativebees #bees #cactusbee #cactusflower #texaswildlife #instects

国家地理 - Photo by Karine Aigner @kaigner | When we think of bees and the efforts to save them, we often think of the honeybee. Hon

案例简介：Karine Aigner @ kaigner | 当我们想到蜜蜂和拯救它们的努力时，我们经常会想到蜜蜂。蜜蜂在1600年代被带到美国，以帮助给农作物授粉和制造蜂蜜。当蜜蜂被带入 “果园” 进行授粉时，它们有时会诉诸于本地景观，通常比本地蜜蜂争夺食物。本地蜜蜂 (其中一些是栖息地专家) 经常被忽视，甚至可能比进口的表亲更为重要。去年春天，在德克萨斯州南部，我遇到了Diadasia rinconis，又名仙人掌蜂 (或有人称之为烟囱蜂)。仙人掌蜜蜂是地巢和花粉专家，我花了几天时间看着雌性挖掘它们各自的洞穴，留下看起来像火山的小土丘。在她的隧道尽头，蜜蜂挖了几个房间，并在每个房间的一团花粉上生了一个卵。几周后，她的新血统出现了。耐心等待盛开的花朵的雄蜂下降了。他们在混乱的球中包围着一位新出现的女性-最强的男性获胜。所有其他人都消失了，获胜的雄性将在分开之前与雌性交配。我很荣幸找到了几个筑巢仙人掌蜜蜂的地方，看着我们很少注意到的昆虫世界中的一些令人难以置信的行为。# 本土蜜蜂 # 仙人掌 # 德克萨斯野生动物 # 动物

国家地理 - Photo by Karine Aigner @kaigner | When we think of bees and the efforts to save them, we often think of the honeybee. Hon

案例简介：Photo by Karine Aigner @kaigner | When we think of bees and the efforts to save them, we often think of the honeybee. Honeybees were brought to America in the 1600s to help pollinate crops and to make honey. When the “orchard” the honeybees were brought in to pollinate stops blooming, they will sometimes resort to native landscapes, often outcompeting native bees for food. Native bees, some of them habitat specialists, are often overlooked, and possibly even more critical than their imported cousins. Last spring in South Texas, I met Diadasia rinconis, aka the cactus bee (or chimney bee, as some call it). Cactus bees are ground-nesters and pollen specialists, and I spent days watching females excavating their individual burrows, leaving small, volcanic-looking mounds. At the end of her tunnel, the bee digs out several rooms and lays a single egg on a wad of pollen in each. Weeks later, her new brood emerges. Male bees, which have been patiently waiting in blooming flowers, descend. They surround a newly emerging female in a chaotic ball—the strongest male wins. All the others fall away, and the winning male will mate with the female before they part ways. I was privileged to have found several sites of nesting cactus bees, watching some of the incredible behaviors in the insect world we so seldom notice. #nativebees #bees #cactusbee #cactusflower #texaswildlife #instects

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国家地理 - Photo by Karine Aigner @kaigner | When we think of bees and the efforts to save them, we often think of the honeybee. Hon

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