Carpenter Bee - Tumblr Posts
Day 7 of posting cute creatures that we found on our field trip:
Today’s special is BEES!
^These four were male bees! They don’t have a stinger so we were able to hold them. There are no words in this world to describe how soft they are. Male bees don’t make honey, they only exist in order to fertilize the queen’s eggs and then they are kicked out of the colony to die alone.
These were females. On the left is a common bumblebee and on the right is a carpenter bee. The carpenter bee was very drunk or weakened by something because she was very sluggish. But she could have stung my professor! He wanted to hold her so that we could get a better picture. Entomologists truly have balls of steel because he is allergic to bees.
Carpenter bees are the goths of bees. They are black with violet sheen and they live alone in holes they make in wood. They too are very important pollinators, but they don’t make honey.
And lastly:
Bee orchids (Ophrys apifera)! They evolved to look like bees and they also produce bee pheromones to attract horny male bees who go at them thinking that they’ll have some fun times, but they just get tricked into pollinating this sinister orchid. (Btw, am I the only one who sees a smiling face on this flower?)
Cute fluffy lil fellas
beholden the colorful fuzzy buggies
velvet ant or cow killer wasp
blue carpenter bee
rosy maple moth
ladybird spider
flannel moth
My carpenter bees 🐝💗
Carpenter Bee working hard on a patch of globe amaranth flowers. I love watching pollinators do their thing.
BEE
That one blue species of carpenter bee. Xylocopa caerulea
Shhhh, don't pay mind to how lazy I was (and often still am) on wing veins. I kinda hate drawing them. One of the few parts of a bug that I don't like to draw
Made to be my pfp on a messenger
(Would appreciate it if this wasn't used for pfp purposes by anyone. I obviously couldn't stop one from doing it, but I'd be unhappy with it.)
BEES
Behold, the source of my current pfp
I'm forever rattled by me accidentally making the female here look soulless lmao I should've given her some eye shine
Sleeping bee
This was drawn to "Family" from Mario Galaxy (the first one), but "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" from Mario 64 suits it better.
I like both songs for it though
Bug info thing (I dubbed it DYKB as a reference to DYKG/did you know gaming)
Looking back, I shouldn't have included sawflies in this because the females can't sting either, but I name dropped them because they are hymenopterans
This was made as a "basic info" thing for people who don't know bugs much to see and learn a little
Bunch of babies sleeping in a flower
If I recall right, they are (from left to right) :
Valley carpenter bee (male), blue carpenter bee, eastern yellowjacket, southern carpenter bee and a carolina paper wasp. Fine backed or rough backed wasn't distinguished in my mind so the wasp here could be either
Carpenter bee doodle
Bee, I was experimenting with brushes again here. But then again I've done that on every krita piece I've made so it's not really noteworthy to bring up
What is noteworthy is how bad I fucked up on the legs 😭 how'd I manage that
