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Meet a bee which is native here ranging from the eastern US up into Canada. This is Xylocopa virginica, or eastern carpenter bee. This print shows a female. Similar in size & colour to bumblebees, their shiny (not fuzzy) metallic black abdomens give them away.

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This linocut print rusty-patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) is a pollinator native to North America & was common here in Ontario as recently as 1980s. It is now sadly on the brink of extinction, designated federal Species at Risk in Canada & Endangered in US.

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This is an important local leafcutter bee, Megachile relativa. Because Megachille bees do not make honey, people don’t know them, though it is one of the largest genera of bees, with > 500 species in over 50 subgenera, & important role in pollinisation.

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Meet the Agapostemon Sericeus or sweat bee. It is metallic, iridescent, blue-green (though males have black and white or yellow stripes on their abdomens), and doesn't live in a hive. These are solitary bees. They are friends in my garden

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This is an important local bee, Osmia Lignaria, known as the orchard mason bee, or blue orchard bee, in a lino block print with gorgeous, irridecent, translucent non-woven blue and gossamer-like white silk tissue washi chine collé

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Finger painted space art commission.

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Here’s a trio of my botanical illustrations for today’s


https://t.co/VaiR5EiCly

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Eeee! is definitely worth perusing 🙌🏻💕
I wish I were more of a scientist, I wish I were a better artist, but I’m working on both 🐸

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My "Summer in a Petri" seems appropriate for 2021

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Few frog species from one of the richest biodiversity hotspot Western Ghats, India.

Check more works at https://t.co/3gRV6KAYGr

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I basically call everything I make because I don’t see how you can separate science from the rest of life ... or imagination

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So I heard there is a tweetstorm happening. So I am going to post these sketches (3 first plates) and illustration (4) of some Neotropical frogs. I really enjoy depicting extant amphibians but hardly ever get commissioned to do so.

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A selection of illustrations for Love following the sci artists & scientific illustrators from this hashtag!

Sorry for my absence. I am 2 signatures away from PhD conferral & have transitioned well into my new fulltime job, but life is busy & tiring atm ❤

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Someone said Well howdy, I like drawing animals. Since it's also enjoy these reconstructed dead things.

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Taking a leap into Day 2 of
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Check out my site here! https://t.co/IhWjzhipry

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Again stirring during with some imagery that I have created during my path in this field and that never saw the light. Be gentle with your comments. Still learning ;)

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This is a diagram I created for and collaborators' paper on alkali They needed to give context to the experimental design and show which life stages were tested. is a great way to do that!

https://t.co/5oRcgqVYtW

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Today, for the first time in my life, I attempted to draw a crab.
This little critter is Coenobita perlatus.

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More from my 2007 "sketchcrawl" of HMNH! Portraits of some dinosaur skulls.
https://t.co/0o5KFdWPkO

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For the first day of the let me take you back to one of my first visits to of Natural History. Here's my long study of their Kronosaur.
https://t.co/gaQTX1LNCC

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