"Look what I do to your lousy car with this wonderful head. This is bigger than you and the rampant technologies" - Chavis Marmol, artist of the work
Most cyberpunk image you'll see in the real world this month. You may enjoy the alt-text, which provides context. Not that this image isn't glorious sans context...
Commons chaos: These partisan halfwits have shamed us all iandunt.substack.com/p/commons-ch...
Next up, the hobbit of the bumblebee world: the hairy-footed flower bee. They have cream coloured faces, & (you guessed it) hairy feet. They love nesting in soft mortar around chimneys and sometimes fall down them, appearing unexpectedly inside homes like a locked room mystery.
The carpenter bee comes in different colours, including blue! They nest in dead wood, vibrating like drills. Too short for some flowers, they rob nectar by slitting petals down the side. Unlike bumblebees, they have smooth abdomens (you could say, every woah-woah-oh still shines)
Tree bumblebee, aka bombus hypnorum, has only been in the UK since 2001. It's ginger and black with a snow-white tail. Though it sounds like a sleepy bee, the name might derive in a roundabout way from the use of moss to stuff pillows: the tree bee loves an old mossy bird's nest.
Euglossa bazinga is a Brazilian bee species. It has the longest tongue in proportion to its body size. It is named after Dr Sheldon Cooper's 'tricked you' catchphrase in The Big Ban Theory because it tricked the scientists into thinking it was a different bee species.
Fell down a bee hole, found some stuff out, here are the results of my researches 1/?