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Late?
Yep!
Busy?
Too!
That slow tired right-antenna rub by this chilled leaf-cutter bee…exactly how I feel!
I’m off to bed…don’t go fucking the #planet and the bees while I’m out…oh wait…never mind…carry on…or don’t…

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

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Research during the 1970’s found that #leafcutterbees nesting in plastic straws resulted in a mortality rate of 90% for offspring.
#plastic isn’t breathable, seals in moisture and promotes fungal growth.
#bees
🌍🐝

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

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Plastic has become so ubiquitous in the planet’s #environment that #leafcutterbees have been observed using discarded #plastic instead of leaves in the construction of their nests.
This is not positive evolution.
#bees
#nature
#pollution
#science
🐝🌍

Miesierka niesopaska (Megachile versicolor) zamykająca gniazdo

https://tube.pol.social/w/k6CCXpFsipqe1EHDMxaiZ6

At #WellandCommunityOrchard they have a wall of #BeeCondos for #NativeBees / #pollinators 🐝💗🐝
These tiny homes are used by #BlueOrchardMasonBees & #LeafcutterBees & #SandWasps & some other native bees.

Honeybees provide us with honey & beeswax but they aren't native here.

#VancouverIsland is home to at least 30 different native bee species. Almost all of these native bees are solitary.

https://youtu.be/i_dBo0ewJv4?si=2Nljn8R-Y2iNyswk

#WellandHeritagePark #CommunitySpaces #YYJgreenspaces #Wsanec #YYJparks #VictoriaBC #CommunityOrchard #VancouverIsland #LegacyPark #YYJ #CommunityGarde #ViewRoyal #LifecyclesProject #insects #CommunityStewardship #BeeHomes #CommunityPark #nature #NatureVideo #BeesVideo #BeeLovers

At #WellandCommunityOrchard they have a wall of #BeeCondos for #NativeBees / #pollinators 🐝💗🐝
These tiny homes are used by #BlueOrchardMasonBees & #LeafcutterBees & #SandWasps & some other native bees.

Honeybees provide us with honey & beeswax but they aren't native here.

#VancouverIsland is home to at least 30 different native bee species. Almost all of these native bees are solitary.

#WellandHeritagePark #CommunitySpaces #YYJgreenspaces #Wsanec #YYJparks #VictoriaBC #CommunityOrchard #VanIsle #LegacyPark #YYJ #CommunityGarde #ViewRoyal #LifecyclesProject #insects #CommunityStewardship #BeeHomes #CommunityPark #nature

Bee condos at Welland Community Orchard Legacy Heritage Park.

Blue orchard mason bee, making deposit at the bee condos at Welland community orchard.

Leafcutter litter.

The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland.

#leafcutterbees #leafcutter
#bees #solitarybees
#naturephotography
#photography #nature #vegan
#organic

Small section of leaf cut by a leaf cutter bee lies discarded on moss on an old timber sleeper.

For #PollinatorWeek here’s 1 of a series of my prints about leaf cutter bees, each unique. These prints are both about, & a sort of collaboration with leaf cutter bees! These small, but multifarious native bees are important pollinators, who make nests for their babies using small telltale half-moon pieces they cut from leaves & petals. This work features 2 large linocuts of leaf cutter bees:

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#linocut #printmaking #MastoArt #bees #leafPrint #leafCutterBees #pollinator

My print features two large linocuts of two leaf cutter bees: Megachile relativa and Megachile brevis. These linocuts are made on collaged Japanese washi papers and cellophane to capture the colours in their bodies and wings. Each print has its own array of leaf and petal prints from leaves and petals used by leaf cutter bees from my garden. The plants used include raspberries, roses (leaves and petals), lily of the valley, lilac, lemon balm, ash, thicket creeper, round-leaved Crane's bill and more. Each print is 17" tall by 12.5" wide (43.2 cm by 31.8 cm).

May 20 is World Bee Day!

Here’s one of my prints, one of a series of related prints about leaf cutter bees, each unique. These prints are both about, and a sort of collaboration with leaf cutter bees! These small, but multifarious native bees are important pollinators, who make nests for their babies using small telltale half-moon pieces they cut from leaves and petals.

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#linocut #printmaking #leafCutterBees #NativeBee #ecology #sciart #conservation #washi #MastoArt

The Leaf Cutter Bees features two linocut leaf cutter bees: Megachile brevis and M. relativa, along with leaf and petal prints in various green and fuchsia of leaves and petals with telltale half-moon shaped pieces cut by bees.

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 154.

Plastic has become so ubiquitous in the planet’s #environment that #leafcutterbees have been observed using discarded #plastic instead of leaves in the construction of their nests. This is not positive #evolution.

#bees #beesanctuaryireland #beesanctuary #nature #naturephotography #solitarybees
#socialenterprise #vegan #organic

Some more leafcutter photos. The barn can be seen on the left, with the colourful fresh cocoons. A bee is just visible entering a hole, on the middle right. The photo on the right was a rather lucky one, getting a little leafcutter in flight with its shadow quite visible.

#leafcutterbees #bees #pollinators #entomology #prairieinsects #insectphotography

The barn is square, balanced on one of its corners, set in a little house like structure made with red cedar. The little barn contains 196 holes, each a bit thinner than a standard pencil. About one third of them are filled with cocoons, half of them light brown in colour, the others made from recently cut light green grass.

The photo on the right is a close up, with a little leafcutter making for the barn, it's shadow well defined about 1 inch below it, on the cedar.

A leafcutter bee (Megachile rotundata) on Rudbeckia in my garden, back in September. I have had a leafcutter bee "barn" in the garden since 2020 - the larvae overwinter in the fridge.

#bees #leafcutterbees #pollinators #rudbeckia #gardenflowers #insectphotography #entomology #prairieinsects #gardening #flowers #flowerphotography

#leafcutterbees

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