For the last day of #PollinatorWeek, let's remember that pollination is how plants have sex. #Bees and other #pollinators carry pollen from the male part of a flower to the female part of another flower. It sounds simple, but the ways this happens are as multitudinous as life on Earth. https://wisconsinpollinators.com/Garden/Know_FlowerSex.aspx

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As we close out #PollinatorWeek, the curator of horticulture at the Zoo, Teresa Vetick, shares her advice for gardeners who want to help pollinators: build a pollinator-friendly garden! Check out our blog to read all her tips: https://t.co/usNKu8PMh3 https://t.co/SUjh9ryFxh
∙ 𝙹𝚞𝚗 𝟸𝟻, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟹 𝟷𝟶:𝟺𝟸𝙰𝙼 ∙

https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/NationalZoo/status/1672978475647479814

#zoo #animals #NationalZoo

A kaleidoscope of butterflies for #PollinatorWeek as they are great #pollinators! #MastoArt

A collection of butterflies is called 'a kaleidoscope', suggesting a flutter of colourful, symmetric, beauties. I am making a series on the weird and wonderful terms of venery - the collective nouns for groups of animals (and other things). Some are evocative, some strange and obscure.

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#linocut #printmaking #butterfly #TermsOfVenery #typography #insect #entomology #butterflies #🦋

Maybe you’d like some butterflies?
Here’s mine from today.

Sagebrush Checkerspot on wild alfalfa
Western Tailed-Blue on Showy Milkweed
Behrs Hairstreak on Narrow Leaf Milkweed
Western Tiger Swallowtail on Cobwebby Thistle

#PollinatorWeek #Butterfly #Entomology #Wildflowers #BloomScrolling

Not all pollinators have six legs! Boost if you see the pollinator on one of the spreading #Tennessee coneflowers that have been brought back from the edge of extinction! 👉 https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/tennessee/stories-in-tennessee/tennessee-coneflower/

#Bloomscrolling #PollinatorWeek

For #PollinatorWeek 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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#linocut #printmaking #MastoArt #bees #leafPrint #leafCutterBees #pollinator

Oh wow it’s #frogweek *and* #PollinatorWeek??

Do any frogs do pollination? Cuz I’m hyped for a crossover! 🐸 🌸

For #PollinatorWeek: This is a hard carved, hand printed Lino block print with collaged Japanese washi papers of a clump of black-eyed susans (Rudbeckia hirta) with a cone flower (Echinacea) & a monarch butterfly. These beautiful wildflowers are garden favourites popular with the pollinators.

Plant native species- they are easy to grow & support native pollinators!

#linocut #printmaking #coneFlower #echinacea #rubeckia #blackEyedSusan #wildflowers #monarchButterfly #garden #sciart #MastoArt

Of course, some winged friends on wildflowers.

Because #PollinatorWeek goes with #BloomScrolling

For #WorldRainforestDay + #PollinatorWeek: #Hummingbird & Trumpet Flower, giant LEGO art by Sean Kenney from his 2019 show at Liberty Science Center.
“FUN FACT: This sculpture is made using 35,508 #LEGO bricks!”
#birdsinart #contemporaryart

For #InsectWeek + #PollinatorWeek: Le Papillon bleu, 1916-7. Art by "Francois Angiboult," a pseudonym of Hélène Oettingen (1887 Ukraine or Venice - 1950 Paris). She also wrote poetry as "Leonardo Pieu" and novels as "Roch Grey," as well as ran an avant-garde artistic and literary salon!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francois_Angiboult_Le_Papillon_bleu,_1916-1917.jpg
#WomenArtists #ModernArt #butterfly

Happy #PollinatorWeek!
MEXICAN LONG-NOSED BAT (Leptonvcteris nivalis)
On display at Michener Art Museum’s excellent new “Sarah Kaizar: RARE AIR” exhibition, featuring original gouache & ink artwork from the book RARE AIR: Endangered Birds, Bats, Butterflies, and Bees.
#BookArt #ContemporaryArt

For #PollinatorWeek, some #pollinators in the home #garden 1/3

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Livestock pastures are often food deserts for pollinators, but scientists believe livestock pastures can double as pollinator meadows, while remaining safe and productive for cattle and farmers. Learn more at https://t.co/y1uOdxrj2C #PollinatorWeek #BeeFriendlyBeef https://t.co/Ms1JtlW8vH
∙ 𝙹𝚞𝚗 𝟸𝟸, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟹 𝟷𝟷:𝟸𝟺𝙰𝙼 ∙

https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/NationalZoo/status/1671902095086067712

#zoo #animals #NationalZoo

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

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🌼🐝🦋 Did you know that the fuzzier an animal is, the better it picks up pollen? Or that most pollination happens by happy accident? Get the buzz on pollinators from Donna Stockton, an entomologist and animal keeper at Amazonia. ✏️STORY: https://t.co/qJs65EFKtY. #PollinatorWeek
∙ 𝙹𝚞𝚗 𝟸𝟷, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟹 𝟿:𝟺𝟷𝙰𝙼 ∙

https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/NationalZoo/status/1671513549464563718

#zoo #animals #NationalZoo

YES bees are heroes and crucial to ecological and agricultural systems ... but have you ever seen a bat absolutely lose it over a flower? Or a beetle that loves pollen so much it’s actually starting to concern friends and family? This #PollinatorWeek, remember: If it’s black-and-yellow striped, it’s already getting hyped. Let’s show a little love to the non-apian pollinators. 💛

#Insect #Pollinators in #agricultural #ecosystems often rely on non-agricultural plants growing on field margins at different points in the season.

But what happens when agrochemicals from fields get into field margins?

Russo et al (2023) looked at the effects of #herbicide & #fertilizer on #nectar resources in margin #plant species – and on visitation of #flowers by pollinators. They showed shifts in resources and related shifts in visitation.

OA 🔗 https://peerj.com/articles/15452/

#PollinatorWeek 🌼🐝

For #PollinatorWeek my ‘Redbud and the Bees’ #multimedia piece (#linocut #woodcut #printmaking #collage) explores how #redbud trees, are increasingly common in Toronto due to their popularity with gardeners and a warming climate. They are popular with our native #bees but this includes the Eastern carpenter bee (whose range is also expanding with climate change) …
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#pollinators #sciart #insects #biodiversity #climateChange #carpenterbees #leafcutterbee #masonbees #Toronto #MastoArt

4/n I've got three more good ones I collected over the years. But I'd like to see your favorite bee memes!

#Bees #Conservation #Pollinators #PollinatorWeek #Ecology #BioDiversity