Time for more blue orchard mason bees on blueberry flowers!

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1740430609

#linocut #printmaking #pollinators #masonBee #blueberry #nativeBees

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

Saw some mason bees today on the catnip and lavender. They don't pose for the camera.

#NativePollinators #MasonBee #bees #insects #pollinators #catnip #OsmiaLignariaPropinqua #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee

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

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1401318897

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

A little Mason Bee

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Looks like a Western Blue Orchard Mason Bee, Osmia lignaria ssp. propinqua, in the 40+ year old Gravenstein apple tree.

#NativePollinators #pollinators #NativeBees #bees #BlueOrchardBee #MasonBee #bee #GravensteinApple #orchard #April18 #pollination #WesternBlueOrchardBee #OsmiaLignariaPropinqua