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Day 8 #SciArtSeptember prompt niche. Can we talk about 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.
When I planned this print I wanted to make 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #masonBee #Osmia #nativeBee #pollinator #mastoArt -
Day 8 #SciArtSeptember prompt niche. Can we talk about 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.
When I planned this print I wanted to make 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #masonBee #Osmia #nativeBee #pollinator #mastoArt -
Day 8 #SciArtSeptember prompt niche. Can we talk about 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.
When I planned this print I wanted to make 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #masonBee #Osmia #nativeBee #pollinator #mastoArt -
Day 8 #SciArtSeptember prompt niche. Can we talk about 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.
When I planned this print I wanted to make 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #masonBee #Osmia #nativeBee #pollinator #mastoArt -
Day 8 #SciArtSeptember prompt niche. Can we talk about 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.
When I planned this print I wanted to make 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #masonBee #Osmia #nativeBee #pollinator #mastoArt -
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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Thinking about native plants and native pollinators, this is an important local bee, Osmia Lignaria, known as the orchard mason bee, or blue orchard bee, in a lino block print on Japanese kozo (mulberry) paper with gorgeous, blue washi chine collé (collaged fine Japanese paper) pollinating a blueberry flower.
We often think of bees as living in hives, but these bees live in 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #wildBee #masonBee #Osmia #blueberry #pollinators #sciart #ManufacteredEcosystems #mastoArt
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Georgia mason bee (Osmia georgica) exiting her nesting tunnel after depositing a load of pollen. I don't think I've ever seen one on any of the flowers in my yard but they are supposed to be generalists. That said, it's reported (by Paula Sharp & Ross Eatman) that they adore fleabane, positioning their head in the center of the flower and spinning around. #MasonBee #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #osmia #bee #bees #insect
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Reed bench at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge (Tinicum, PA). Found a few plugged by mason bees but not as much activity as you'd expect on a warm spring day. #bees #philadelphia #phragmites #osmia
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With eye month, #InsertAnInvert2024 has given me another excuse to talk about bees. How many eyes do you think bees have? I’ve been making art about bees for years, looking at photos and specimens and talking to entomologists but I only recently learned something which seems a basic fact of bee anatomy: they have FIVE eyes! More precisely, bees like this Osmia lignaria (a blue orchard mason bee) 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #bee #masonBee #Osmia #nativeBee #pollinators #blueberry -
Osmia aurulenta Canon 7A EFS 60 2.8 f/5.6 1/320 iso: 100 Prague 4/22/2020 #Apidae #bees #Osmia #insects #hymenoptera #invertebrates #pollinators #macro #madows #grasslands
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My lino print with collaged Japanese washi papers on a white mulberry leaf paper with bark inclusions shows blossoming cherry branches & two of our wild, native bees: the bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) and the Blue Orchard Mason Bee (Osmia lignaria). I printed it by hand on Japanese kozo (or mulberry paper), 16” x 20” with various collaged Japanese washi papers for the blossoms, bee bodies and wings.🧵
#linocut #printmaking #cherryBlossom #nativeBees #Osmia #bumblebee #masonBee #InverteFest2024
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I am interpreting the prompts quite loosely but I thought I would share this print for #InsertAnInvert2024 as the are ground-nest bees who live near us. My lino block print with collaged Japanese washi papers on a white mulberry leaf paper with bark inclusions shows blossoming cherry branches and two of our wild, native bees: the bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) and the Blue Orchard Mason Bee (Osmia lignaria). 🧵1
#linocut #printmaking #cherryBlossom #nativeBees #washi #Osmia #bumblebee #masonBee
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For the #SciArtSeptember prompt “metallic” my linocut Osmia lignaria, the metallic blue orchard mason bee.
We think of bees as living in hives, but these bees live in reeds or natural holes which they divide into chambers with mud walls. We also tend to picture yellow and black stripes, but this small bee is blue to blue-green. 🧵1/2
#linocut #printmaking #washi #masonBee #Osmia #insect #sciArt #nativeBees #pollinators
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For #PollinatorWeek: lino block print with collaged Japanese washi papers on a white mulberry leaf paper with bark inclusions shows blossoming cherry branches and two of our wild, native bees: the bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) and the Blue Orchard Mason Bee (Osmia lignaria). I printed it by hand on 16" x 20" with various collaged Japanese washi papers for the blossoms, bee bodies and wings.
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#linocut #printmaking #cherryBlossom #nativeBees #washi #Osmia #bumblebee #masonBee #MastoArt
