Like other bumble bees it is yellow and black. It is a medium to large bee and males and workers have a distinctive rusty-coloured patch on the second segment of the abdomen. It lives on the nectar of many flowers and can be found in open habitat such as mixed farmland, urban settings, savannah, open woods and sand dunes.
#printmaking #bumblebee #BombusAffinis #rustyPatchedBumblebee #mastoArt 🧵3/3
Day 9 #SciArtSeptember prompt is vanishing. This #linocut print rusty-patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) is handprinted on Japanese white and yellow papers, 8" x 8". The rusty-patched bumble is a pollinator native to North America and was common here in Ontario as recently as the 1980s. It is now sadly on the brink of extinction, designated federal Species at Risk in Canada.
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#printmaking #bumblebee #sciart #BombusAffinus #RustyPatchedBumblebee #insect #bee #pollinator #conservation
The 3rd Friday in May is Endangered Species Day, so I am sharing the Rusty-patched bumblebee which was common here during my childhood but is likely now extirpated in Canada and endangered in the US.
When we think about endangered species we mustn’t only remember the charismatic megafauna.
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #entomology #bumblebee #rustyPatchedBumblebee #endangeredSpeciesDay #endangeredSpecies
Bumblebees will nest in any suitable sized cavity, so I’m going use #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt “around logs” as my cue to talk about the rusty-patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis). The rusty-patched bumble is a pollinator native to North America and was common here in Ontario as recently as the 1980s. It is now sadly on the brink of extinction, 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #bumblebee #RustyPatchedBumblebee #sciart #ecology #entomology #conservation #MastoArt
Ele Willoughby, PhD