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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Still obsessed with the cutest nesting strategy going. The Eastern Snail Shell Mason Bee (Osmia conjuncta) is a small North American blue bee which makes nests in suitable empty snail shells! In my linocut I show this adorable little pollinator with a Cepaea shell. Each print is 8” by 8” on delicate Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #masonBee #Osmia #nativeBee #pollinator #mastoart

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My 8”x8” Lino block print of a small blue and black bee Osmia conjuncta landing on an upturned empty Cepaea snail shell in gold with brown on cream coloured washi paper
May 27, 2025, 11:37 · · 17 · 0
JohnMoyer

Asclepias viridis (also called Green Milkweed or Spider Milkweed) was being pollinated by a Bombus fraternus in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on May 4, 2025

Bombus fraternus is an endangered species en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_f

Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: rsok.com/~jrm/2025May06_birds_

#pollinator #nativeplants #endangeredspecies #Bombus #nativebee #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #Oklahoma #photography

Asclepias viridis (also called Green Milkweed or Spider Milkweed) was being pollinated by a Bombus fraternus (also called Southern Plains Bumblebee) in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on May 4, 2025. This Asclepias planted itself, but they are often planted by those hoping to help Monarch butterflies.
May 27, 2025, 10:56 · · 1 · 0
Joe Wynne 🌻 🚗 ⛰️

#WorldBeeDay

🐝 Sharp-tailed Bees don't have pollen collecting hairs. Don't need them because they lay their eggs in other bee's nests. (This is called being "cleptoparasitic".)

🐝 There have to be enough of their specific prey bees to keep their population going. But insect populations have been dropping for decades, so Sharp-tailed Bees can be very hard to find.

Needless to say, I was thrilled to see one in my garden on a cloudy day.

#Insect #NativeBees #HabitatGardening #BiodiversityGardening #Pollinator #Nature #NaturePhotography #Gardening

Bee with a pointy abdomen (rear) on a golden flower (Coreopsis). It is not a honeybee. The bee's abdomen is black with thin yellow horizontal stripes.
May 20, 2025, 21:56 · · 6 · 0
FreddyB Aviation Photography

Bumblebee working a California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) in the garden. #nikon #Z9 #bee #bumblebee #pollinator #garden #poppy.

May 10, 2025, 05:17 · · 0 · 0
Frosch B

diese Schottische Erdbiene Andrena scotica saß gestern, als es so kalt war, auf dem blatt, bewegte sich sehr langsam und wartete offensichtlich auf wärmere zeiten oder gar einen sonnenstrahl. letzteres wohl vergeblich :-/

#insekten #insects #bees #wildbienen #krabbeltierchen #AuwaldRunde #entomology #nature #pollinator

nahaufnahme. auf einem frühlingsgrünen blatt sitzt eine biene mit schwarzem, oder sagen wir dunkelgrauem hinterleib, der von den nach hinten gelegten, im licht glänzenden transparenten flügeln flankiert wird. der mittlere körperteil, der thorax, ist ziemlich rund, von ähnlicher farbe wie der hinterleib, aber von einem flaum goldener härchen umsäumt. den kopf hat die biene ein stück nach links gewendet, auch da sprießen goldene härchen
dieselbe biene, aber von schräg vorne. so käme eigentlich das gesicht mit dem großen seitlichen facettenauge gut zur geltung, der autofokus hat aber beschlossen, den hinteren teil scharf zu stellen. immerhin kann man hier schön die nach unten zeigenden haarpinsel an den hinterbeinen erkennen.
May 09, 2025, 14:13 · · · 0 · 0
nojarama

Happy anniversary to Blondie’s album, ‘Pollinator’. Released this week in 2017. #blondie #blondieofficial #deborahharry #chrisstein #clemburke #pollinator #fun #longtime #toomuch #doomordestiny

May 05, 2025, 19:46 · · 0 · 0
FreddyB Aviation Photography

Bumblebee departs a California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) in the garden. Note the large pollen sack or pants and the light dusting of pollen on its body #nikon #Z9 #bee #bumblebee #pollinator #garden #poppy.

Apr 30, 2025, 16:39 · · 0 · 0
hastingsmothman

Nine #moths in or near the moth box last night, so still numerically low, but some fabulous diversity among them

1) Poplar Kitten (top left)
2) Swallow Prominent (top right)
3) Chinese Character (bottom left) - mimics a bird dropping
4) Sharp-angled Peacock (bottom right)

#moth #nature #wildlife #biodiversity #britishwildife #mothsandbutterflies #butterflies #lepidoptera #entomology #insect #animal #creature #cute #garden #spring #conservation #pollinator #alttext

A side on shot of 2.5cm chunky moth on a finger. Its wings are held close together either side of a fat abdomen. It has a fluffy head with a patch of blue, gold and black on top. The wings are largely light grey with a thick speckled grey-black band that runs across the centre of the wings. Side on the band looks vertical. It is edged in black and flashes of gold. Its back wing edge slopes in a wedge shape. There is a darker patch near the back of the wing and a few black dots scattered around.
A side on shot of a 3cm chunky moth on finger. It has a mid-grey furry rounded head. It holds its wings to its body either side of a fat abdomen. Looking side on, the top part of the wing is black with white flashes that extend from the back wing edge. The mid part starts mid brown and the fades to pale as it gets nearer the bottom. There is a dark black patch near the bottom right wing corner. Its back wing edge slopes down so that the whole moth forms a wedge-shape.
A tiny 0.5cm moth on a wooden table top. It resembles a small dollop of bird dropping. It is a rounded triangular shape, like a speech mark or comma, or, to my mind, like a short boot. So it is narrow at the left, rising sharply over the top to a big rounded back wing edge and then flat across the bottom. It is largely white, but with a dark blob halfway up the rising edge. The back wing edge is more blue-grey with darker grey arches. Its name comes from a white flash in the centre of the blob which resembles a character from the chinese alphabet
A triangular moth laying flat against a mottled painted wall. It looks delicate. It is heavily camouflaged against the wall. It is equilateral triangle shape with a thin head and abdomen down the centre of wings which lie flat. The bottom wing edge is heavily scalloped. It is a dirty white colour with a faint brown band running across the middle and flecks of brown in places and two brown arches in the two bottom wing corners.
Apr 30, 2025, 07:25 · · · 3 · 0
Charrvein

Cherry blossoms in Icelandic greenhouse

Lets Hope the one freeze night didnt hit them critically

#cheeryblossom #iceland #greenhouse #blossom #ecology #pollinator

Apr 29, 2025, 18:35 · · 2 · 0
Trilobyter

For one of my #gardening projects this #spring I decided to go all in on turning our little front #garden space into a better #pollinator habitat, sowing & planting lots of #Texas natives. Success so far with many of them now coming into #bloom. Along with that the #butterfly activity is picking up. Yesterday we had a visit from this female Eastern Black Swallowtail, she was preferentially partaking in the particularly plentiful #cosmos.

#photography #nature #bloomscrolling #butterflies

Color photo of a black butterfly with blue, white, orange, and yellow patches and spots, a female Eastern Black Swallowtail, perched and feeding on a yellow cosmos flower.
Apr 26, 2025, 14:54 · · 26 · 0
hastingsmothman

Well, would you give it credence?! 😮

Just as I was putting the moth box away, I spotted this little critter gripping a table leg. A Mullein Moth and the first sighting in 2025. One of the 'wood mimics', resembling a bark chipping or dead plant stem to avoid detection. Generally flies April to June.

#moth #mothsandbutterflies #MothsMatter #lepidoptera #entomology #insect #animal #creature #nature #wildlife #garden #pollinator #alttext #cute

A 2cm moth on a finger facing right. It resembles a bark or wood chipping. It is streaky light wood brown with a dark ragged tuft, like bark, running down the centre of its wings. It has a pronounced tuft of fur that points out from the front of its head. It has thick, furry thighs and very thin spindly bottom part of the leg that grip my finger.
Over head shot of a Mullein Moth on a finger. It is long and narrow, almost dart-shaped with a pointed tuft thar sticks out in front of its head like a dart tip. The central ridge down the centre of its wings is dark brown, with the side of the wings more streaky light brown like wood grain
Apr 26, 2025, 07:17 · · · 20 · 0
Frosch B

löwenzahn ist immer wieder toll zum insekten fotografieren 😍

Flaum-Sandbiene
Andrena nitida

#insects #insekten #bees #bienen #wildbienen #SolitaerBiene #krabbeltierchen #AuwaldRunde #BloomScrolling #pollinator

auf der leuchtend gelben multiblüte eines löwenzahns krabbelt eine biene und sammelt nektar und pollen. sie ist an ihrem brustteil, dem thorax, orange-braun behaart, der schwarze hinterleib, der hier größtenteils von den auf dem rücken zusammengelegten transparenten geäderten flügeln verdeckt ist, zeigt an den seiten wenige helle haare. der kopf ist auch schwarz
Apr 21, 2025, 15:54 · · 3 · 0
B's wild, wild world 🌱🐛🎼

Any #gardeners in the Hamilton County region of #Ohio a local Juliet Scout needs of these #native #pollinator #plants to rehabilitate a neglected city park:
beard tongue
Rue anemone
Wild geranium
Wild lupine
False solomon's seal
Bishop's cap
Ohio spiderwort
Wild columbine
Purple coneflower
Butterfly milkweed
Prairie coreopsis
Nodding onion
Fragrant hyssop
Spotted bee balm
Stiff goldenrod
Joe Pye weed
Blue eyed grass
False sunflower
Aster
Please reply if you do and I'll send a message.
#Gardening

Apr 18, 2025, 01:44 · · 12 · 0
Ele Willoughby, PhD

Another detail of my pollinator garden piece made of collaged prints, for Manufactured Ecosystems. This shot shows my tiny sweat bee, Agapostemon virescens (Toronto’s official bee). I took a little liberty with scale so I could actually get some details and yet show the bee in context of the flowers (purple coneflowers, Canada goldenrod, 🧵1/2
#linocut #printmaking #collage #sciart #pollinator #pollinatorGarden #nativeBee #sweatBee #butterfly #moth #MastoArt

As described this a detail of my pollinator garden piece made of collaged prints, for Manufactured Ecosystems. This shot shows my tiny sweat bee, Agapostemon virescens (Toronto’s official bee), flowers (purple coneflowers, Canada goldenrod, black eyed susan, wild geranium) and a hint at the bottom of a dead log, a red-spotted purple butterfly and a little white underwing moth.
Apr 06, 2025, 12:18 · · 6 · 0

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