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Art + Critique alumni: #Pollinator is a free, virtual five-week residency bringing people together across art, culture, tech and social impact through weekly roundtables and peer coaching.

A few A+C alumni joined the first round and came back energised by the generosity of the group and the quality of the conversations.

Open until 6 April. Use the code from my email or message me.

#ArtnCritique #MutualSupport #PeerLearning #VirtualResidency

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Malka Beth 4d ago

@SrRochardBunson here's some of mine starting to come up for this spring & summer, within another 2-3 weeks I'll start to see stalks for it's tiny purple flowers. I absolutely love it for how many happy big bumblebees I get with it and my chickens enjoy munching on the leaves I bring them from it too. But do understand if you've very sensitive/delicate skin, as I do, that it does feel a little prickly to the touch, so either enduring a little shortterm pain or wearing gloves will be needed for trimming it back.

Also note that while the bees do indeed love said flowers, they're not very fragrant nor #asthma attack triggering, so if you want an asthmatic friendly #pollinator plant, this is definitely one for that list.

#Comfrey

Ed Sullivan 5d ago

A native miner bee (M) (Andrena) is seen drying off on a rigid green leaf, having just emerged from the nest his mother dug. Once out of their birth nest, males will forage on nectar and mate, but never live in another nest.
Females dig the nest, collect provisions to store for the next generation, and defend the nest against intruders. Females return to the nest to sleep, while males will rest and sleep in flowers or attached, by their jaws, to the stems and leaves of plants. #portland #oregon #native_bee #pollinator #pnw

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Frosch B Mar 26

die andern beiden will ich euch auch nicht vorenthalten, hier zunächst der

Kleine Fuchs
Aglais urticae
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiner_Fuchs

auch wenn es 'nur' ein eher normal gelungenes foto ist, so taugt es doch als froher farbklecks in diesem seltsamen aprilwetterschnee.

#insekten #insects #butterfly #Schmetterling #BugOfTheDay #krabbeltierchen #nature #biodiversity #pollinator #entomology

Frosch B Mar 25

'Da wo ich wohne' #FotoVorschlag

... rieseln im späteren frühling wildbienen aus der dachbodenluke. die bauen ihre nester in großer zahl in den längsröhren der antiken dachziegel hier und wenn die sonne dann stärker aufs dach knallt, überhitzen manche in diesen röhren und irren dann orientierungslos umher :(

Gehörnte Mauerbiene
Osmia cornuta
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geh%C3%B6rnte_Mauerbiene

#insekten #insects #wildbienen #bees #krabbeltierchen #BugOfTheDay #nature #biodiversity #pollinator #entomology

peachfront Mar 23

here is the male Collared Inca, possibly the mate of the female in the photo i posted a few minutes ago... since i took the photos within moments of each other at the same location / feeder -- he is not completely black and white, note his little bitty purple hat!!!

#Bird #Hummingbird #Birding #BirdsOfMastodon #Photograph #BirdPhotography #BirdInFlight #BirdInFlightPhotography #Pollinator