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Okay, entomology brain is annoyed by a Tumblr ad

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Specifically, this one. First, Albert Einstein never said that.

Secondly, and more importantly, that is NOT a honey bee, or even a bee at all. That is a bee fly, a very important, very cute pollinator. However! They have parasitoid larvae! This means that they lay their eggs in the larvae of other bugs. Those eggs hatch, and those larvae eat the bug they’re in from the inside out. Sounds horrible, but it’s the way of things and I cannot understate how important these guys are.

The reason I’m annoyed about the picture of choice isn’t even that they didn’t picture a bee (not even in the right order- bees are hymenopterans. Flies are diptera.) What’s really grinding my absolute gears about the choice here? Bee flies parasitize bee larva.

If you’re going to use the wrong picture, at least don’t use the picture of something that actively kills what you’re trying to protect instead of the animal you’re protecting.

Also, honeybees, Apis mellifera, don’t need protection. They’re fine. They’re invasive in North America, even. Humans take care of them just fine. I’m a beekeeper, and I love them, but that’s not where our efforts should be. We should be trying to protect native bees, there are a whole bunch that I bet you’ve never heard of that need help.

Anyway, rant over. Sorry, I just could not let that one go.

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Reblogging this one more time to tag @onenicebugperday because I think they would like this

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Yeah, the money from Project Honey Bees apparently goes to Cornell University’s research on honey bees in respect to pollinating agricultrual crops. If you want to “save the bees,” this is not it.

If you’d like to support native bee conservation, give a donation to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation instead.

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The most important thing you can do for bee conservation, probably? Become a nerd about bees and share your bee knowledge with others.

People REMEMBER facts about nature. If you tell someone the name of a unique creature and why it is important, it will stick in their minds.

In particular, tell kids. Kids have a damn near innate sense of the incredible importance of biodiversity, and also kids love to tell everybody else the facts they know.

People can’t care about what they don’t know exists.

In the USA (where I am) you can tell people about the critically endangered Blue Calamintha bee of central Florida. A lot of people didn’t know bees come in blue. (This is a different blue bee from the blue bee that was going around on a post a while back.)

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The American Bumble Bee, Bombus pennsylvanicus, is in terrible peril right now, having declined 90% in the past 20 years

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One of our most critically endangered bees is the rusty patched bumble bee

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Tell your friends about long horned bees (Melissodes), such as this Melissodes dentiventris (left) and Melissodes tristis (right). The ones with 70’s leg warmers are females, the males have antennae the length of their whole body!

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Tell people about the Blueberry Bee

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Tell them about the Metallic-Epauletted Sweat Bee

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And the Golden Belted Bumble Bee which is SUPER FLUFFY

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There are many other beautiful and cool bees, many of which are imperiled. I can’t find the blue-green shiny bee I saw at the place I work, but trust me, there are beeautiful bees out there that you’ve never even heard of.

By planting native wildflowers, you can attract many of these bees to your own back yard! I’ve been visited by many long-horned, bumble, and metallic sweat bees. They are so neat to watch—their ways of doing their pollinating work all differ. Long-horned bees are industrious and efficient, moving quickly from flower to flower; bumble bees are clumsy and bump into things. They’re such gentle creatures and SO CUTE.

If you’re not from the USA you probably have even cooler bees. I get jealous scrolling through iNaturalist beecause of the cool bees that don’t live here.

The first step is curiosity. Everyone needs to beehold the wonders of bees beefore they can truly understand the importance of protecting them.

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Facebook deleted this almost immediately. It's almost like the ultrawealthy don't want us knowing or talking about what's at stake.

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Just want to add one thing:

In countries with universal healthcare, this is a non-issue during a strike. Our access to healthcare isn't tied to working. It's an unconditional right for each and everyone of us.

The US system screws workers over in oh so many ways.

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This is exactly why US companies fight so hard against universal healthcare; even if single payer healthcare is cheaper on a per-person basis and takes the cost away from the employer, it also takes POWER and leverage away from the employers... and they don't ever want to give that up.

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i get the point of the polls informally showing that the vast majority of tumblr users have been here for years and barely anyone is new. the problem is that the suits don't look at that kind of data and go "ah, we understand. the majority of our users are oldheads who want things to stay the same. we misunderstood our audience." they absolutely have hard numbers on these things. they surely know most active users have been here forever. but they look at these stats and go "wow, our growth rate really IS shit. we're still relying on an ever-dwindling pool of users who have been here since they were teenagers in the early 2010s. we need to be working even harder to make this place appeal to new users"

the higher ups and investors on sites like this want infinite growth forever. this is why they keep changing the layout to make it look like other, more popular sites, even though we hate it. this is why they try out shit like tumblr live that doesn't appeal to the established core userbase in the slightest. it's not for us. it's also not for the ~5% of active users (if the poll going around is to be believed) who signed up within the last year. no, they're chasing after the hundreds of millions of people who use twitter and the BILLIONS of people who use tiktok, hoping to appeal to them and make tumblr more popular again

this is, of course, deeply stupid. nobody is leaving tiktok to hop on tumblr live. they already have tiktok. and we're on tumblr because we like tumblr, not because we want it to morph into something else. but i'm sure automattic's got venture capital investors breathing down their necks going "why isn't tumblr more like twitter or tiktok or facebook or instagram or" etc. etc., and so here we are

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