So yesterday this #bumblebee came flying right at my face. I tried to dodge, but it landed on my head.
Bumblebees aren't aggressive but they can sting in theory and unlike honeybees, they don't die if they do. I was worried that it would get tangled in my hair and panic.
Hair is a mess, glad I'm getting it cut on Friday. Also I want to get some more henna in there for Pride month/summer.
This Hunt's bumblebee landed on my shirt and stayed there long enough to worry me. I set it down in a raised bed, with a bunch of freshly picked dandelions, next to a tiny ceramic water cup. It woke up and started browsing on the flowers. I didn't see it go, but it did go.
I’m back from my mom’s condominium, where the excessively manicured sprayed and poisoned landscapes are barren of bees and butterflies. So glad to be in my garden where the wild things are. Here is a great big bumblebee busy at work in our front yard.
My lino print with collaged Japanese washi papers on a white mulberry leaf paper with bark inclusions shows blossoming cherry branches & two of our wild, native bees: the bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) and the Blue Orchard Mason Bee (Osmia lignaria). I printed it by hand on Japanese kozo (or mulberry paper), 16” x 20” with various collaged Japanese washi papers for the blossoms, bee bodies and wings.🧵
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