Flatbush Gardener 🌈<p>My first <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://framapiaf.org/@peertube" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>peertube</span></a></span> video!</p><p>A short recording in slow-motion of the activity of a nesting aggregation of ground-nesting bees, Colletes thoracicus, the Rufous-backed Cellophane Bee, along my driveway at the end of April 2024. I have been monitoring and observing this population since 2008.</p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bees</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Habitat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Habitat</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Pollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pollinators</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lone.earth/accounts/xris" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>xris@lone.earth</span></a></span> - Rufous-backed Cellophane Bees (Colletes thoracicus) nesting aggregation (Slow Motion)</p><p><a href="https://lone.earth/videos/watch/ab7b783a-b212-4135-9d33-0558f1f53cb4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lone.earth/videos/watch/ab7b78</span><span class="invisible">3a-b212-4135-9d33-0558f1f53cb4</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ecoevo.social/@darwin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>darwin</span></a></span></p>