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Ele Willoughby, PhD · @minouette
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For here’s 1 of a series of my prints about leaf cutter bees, each unique. These prints are both about, & a sort of collaboration with leaf cutter bees! These small, but multifarious native bees are important pollinators, who make nests for their babies using small telltale half-moon pieces they cut from leaves & petals. This work features 2 large linocuts of leaf cutter bees:

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#pollinatorweek #linocut #printmaking #mastoart #bees #leafprint #leafcutterbees #pollinator

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Ele Willoughby, PhD · @minouette
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May 20 is World Bee Day!

Here’s one of my prints, one of a series of related prints about leaf cutter bees, each unique. These prints are both about, and a sort of collaboration with leaf cutter bees! These small, but multifarious native bees are important pollinators, who make nests for their babies using small telltale half-moon pieces they cut from leaves and petals.

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#linocut #printmaking #leafcutterbees #nativebee #ecology #sciart #conservation #washi #mastoart

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The Bee Guy · @thebeeguy
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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 154.

Plastic has become so ubiquitous in the planet’s that have been observed using discarded instead of leaves in the construction of their nests. This is not positive .


#theBeeAt3 #environment #leafcutterbees #plastic #evolution #bees #beesanctuaryireland #beesanctuary #nature #naturephotography #solitarybees #socialenterprise #vegan #organic

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Kbooki · @Kbooki
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The mason bees have emerged! Even more of them than last year! I'm so happy!

#leafcutterbees #masonbee #bees #nativebees

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