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🐝 Bumble bees pollinated linden flowers 24 million years ago, fossil evidence shows
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Bumble bees pollinated linden flowers 24 million years ago, fossil evidence shows
An international research team led by the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna has made an extraordinary discovery: fossilized lime blossoms and fossilized bumble bees were found in 24-million-year-old sediments at the Enspel Fossil-Lagerstätte (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)—along with evidence of their interaction in the form of preserved pollen grains. These findings show that bumble bees were already among the most important pollinators of linden (or…

Bumblebee on winter-flowering lonicera, 22nd December 2025. Not a queen either, at least 2 individuals so an active nest???
#Winter #Bees #Climatechange

Bin derzeit bienenfleißig damit im Advent täglich auch immer etwas neuer Buntfug für Euch im #klexadventskalender ist. Doch auch das "Normalsortiment" bereite ich vor.
Die handgemalten #wandklexschmuck Bienchen -hier in Ohrstecker gefasst- sind (immer) auf #miniaturepainting #bees #watercolor #mastoArt #fediArt #creativeToots

"#Kluczbork Flowing with #Honey" — a #mural in Kluczbork, Poland.
#hiking #bees

So war das... *summt*
#workinprogress
(die mittlerweile fertigen Bienen #wandklex sind auf #watercolor #bees #art #artShop #fediArt #mastoArt #creativeToots