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That's a wrap for #SeptemBee! This month I painted 28 species of bees, 1 isopod, and 1 landscape (not pictured), each relating to the daily #SciArtSeptember prompt (which I was able to stick to far more easily than anticipated!)
I hope you enjoyed learning about bees! I'm off to hibernate until next year :) -
Last day of #SeptemBee! For the #SciArtSeptember prompt of "dream" I've picked a bee famous for how it sleeps. Amegilla cingulata, the blue banded bee, is frequently pictured asleep, legs curled and clinging to a twig by its mandibles. Though it almost exclusively prefers blue flowers, it has become an important pollinator in Australia due to its method of buzz pollination.
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#SeptemBee 29th #SciArtSeptember prompt "foresight."
This is Bombus terrestris, the buff tailed bumblebee. As one of Europe's most common bees, it is also a frequent subject of behavior and intelligence studies, and it turns out bees can be pretty smart. They communicate by dancing, can learn and remember maps and faces, they show signs of PTSD if you harass them too much, and yes, even show signs of foresight.
B. terrestris, for example, continuously monitors its nest's honey and pollen reserves. If it gets too low, they will start biting and chewing the leaf buds off tomato plants. This damage induces the plant to start flowering and provide more nectar and pollen for the hive.
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#SeptemBee 28th! For the #SciArtSeptember prompt "harvest" I've chosen a squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, although there are lots of bees colloquially called "squash bees."
Do yourself a favor: look inside a big orange squash/pumpkin flower one morning and say hi to your new best friend. Squash bees have been quietly following humans and their crops around North America (and beyond) for thousands of years. They may spend their entire lives in a single field, pollinating only cucurbits. As solitary ground nesters, no-till methods are vital for preserving their habitat and their continuing pollination services.
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#SeptemBee 27th! The #SciArtSeptember theme is "bound" so I chose a geographically restricted species, Xylocopa darwini. These carpenter bees are the only bees native to the Galapagos Islands - up until relatively recently, they were the only bees there at all!
You get two today because I love the sexual dimorphism in the species. They look suspiciously like the valley carpenter bee (X. sonorina) that I painted for Valentine's Day earlier this year. Perhaps some lost queen got blown over the ocean a long long time ago and landed on an island full of tortoises.
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cherry ramune ft. orchard mantis :3
#art #artistonmastodon #artist #mastoart #illustration #bug #bugs #bugart #insect #insectart #cute #cuteart #digitalart #mantis #orchardmantis #AlexGSolomonArt
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It's #WorldOceansDay, so I've drawn one of the five known species of truly ocean dwelling insect, sea skaters (Halobates spp). Sea skaters lay their eggs on hard surfaces floating in the open ocean; surfaces which have become increasingly abundant as oceans are increasingly polluted with plastic. Good for the sea skaters, maybe, but unfettered insect growth is rarely good for the rest of the ecosystem.
I'd bet there are whole new species of Halobates sea skaters that evolved specifically on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
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Mother's Day UK - Sunday 30 March
It's not too late to give original art this year - I have this little Monarch butterfly piece available to buy...
https://theweeowlart.etsy.com/listing/1878762743#FediGiftShop #ScottishArtist #MastoArt #CreativeToots
#Butterfly #MonarchButterfly #insects #InsectArt #InsectDrawing #OriginalArt #Drawing #PenAndInk #ColourPencil #MixedMedia #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ShopIndy #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #MothersDay #MothersDayGift -
I illustrated one of my favorite insect interactions: leaf cutting ants such as this (genus Atta) are known for farming fungus. As bound to happen in any agricultural effort, these fungus farms tend to get infested by tiny cockroaches (genus Attaphila, literally "ant-lovers").
Which means if ants had Star Trek they would totally have a Trouble With Tribbles episode.
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Ladybug, acrylic on birch panel, 6"x6".
Flourescent colours mixed in with the highlights, so it really pops in the light when viewed in person. Screens have trouble reproducing the real look of this.
#ladybug #ladybird #ladybirdbeetle🐞 #acrylicpainting #ladybugpainting #insectart
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Ladybug, acrylic on birch panel, 6"x6".
Flourescent colours mixed in with the highlights, so it really pops in the light when viewed in person. Screens have trouble reproducing the real look of this.
#ladybug #ladybird #ladybirdbeetle🐞 #acrylicpainting #ladybugpainting #insectart
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Ladybug, acrylic on birch panel, 6"x6".
Flourescent colours mixed in with the highlights, so it really pops in the light when viewed in person. Screens have trouble reproducing the real look of this.
#ladybug #ladybird #ladybirdbeetle🐞 #acrylicpainting #ladybugpainting #insectart
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Another from my Gilded Order series - Armadillidium Vulgare, otherwise know as a pill bug. or a Rolly Polly. Or a Slater. What is it called in your region?
The original has sold, but I have prints, pins and stickers available on my site: https://www.rachelquinlan.com/shop
#isopod #entomology #entomologist #insectart #bugart #watercolor #maximalist #MastoArt #art #illustration #maximal #scienceart #biologist #biology
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Summer is gone, but this Cicada remains. This is one of my favorite Gilded Order paintings. Available now through Every Day Original
https://everydayoriginal.com/product/gilded-order-tosena-splendida/
#cicada #watercolor #entomology #entomologist #insect #insectart #bug #bugart #maximalist #decorativeart #imaginativerealism
