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Carpenter Bee working hard on a patch of globe amaranth flowers. I love watching pollinators do their thing.
Happy Mother’s Day ! Don’t forget to show your love for mother earth today!
vegans make peace with honey
no shut up do it
In summer my garden is full of these little fellas but not seen any yet 🙁
Protect our 🐝🐝🐝🐝
Happy World Bee Day!!
I thought this book would be good to share today and during Mental Health Awareness Month 😊
Title: The Music of Bees
Author: Eileen Garvin
Synopsis: A heartwarming debut novel for readers of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, following three lonely strangers in a rural Oregon town, each working through grief and life's curveballs, who are brought together by happenstance on a local honeybee farm where they find surprising friendship, healing--and maybe even a second chance--just when they least expect it.
Forty-four-year-old Alice Holtzman is stuck in a dead-end job, bereft of family, and now reeling from the unexpected death of her husband. Alice has begun having panic attacks whenever she thinks about how her life hasn't turned out the way she dreamed. Even the beloved honeybees she raises in her spare time aren't helping her feel better these days.
In the grip of a panic attack, she nearly collides with Jake--a troubled, paraplegic teenager with the tallest mohawk in Hood River County--while carrying 120,000 honeybees in the back of her pickup truck. Charmed by Jake's sincere interest in her bees and seeking to rescue him from his toxic home life, Alice surprises herself by inviting Jake to her farm.
And then there's Harry, a twenty-four-year-old with debilitating social anxiety who is desperate for work. When he applies to Alice's ad for part-time farm help, he's shocked to find himself hired. As an unexpected friendship blossoms among Alice, Jake, and Harry, a nefarious pesticide company moves to town, threatening the local honeybee population and illuminating deep-seated corruption in the community. The unlikely trio must unite for the sake of the bees--and in the process, they just might forge a new future for themselves.
Beautifully moving, warm, and uplifting, The Music of Bees is about the power of friendship, compassion in the face of loss, and finding the courage to start over (at any age) when things don't turn out the way you expect.
i like moths
i like butterflies
i love bees
i respect ants
^
these bugs rock
here’s a fun reminder
bees do not suffer from humans harvesting their honey, as they produce it to a level of excess that they cannot hope to use.
not only that, but without people deliberately breeding them for honey, they would have died out by now.
this especially goes towards you vegans who don’t eat honey thinking it’s animal abuse. don’t go out and buy agave nectar, which is so frequently made using inhuman labour policies. use honey, the best way to save bees.
saving the bees is the bee's knees!
a snippet from issue 16 of the blugg newspaper
Gosh everytime I see this art I love it even more! ❤️🥰 You did such an amazing job with it!! I love that entire team there and would die for all of them. ❤️❤️❤️ - lots of love from Kurōbā Taiyō
I did some fun team artwork for a homebrew campaign my friend is running. Somehow my character (blondie on the left) managed to be the tallest at 5’03’’. All three of us are a magical girl team! My character is based around Alice In Wonderland, the one in the middle is based around bees! And the girl on the right is a plant race so she is very nature based. I love them all
All the more reason to support local bees.
got my hands on a field guide of californian bugs and i found that there's this one bee species in southern california that looks like this
![[id: a drawing of xylocopa varpuncta, aka the valley carpenter bee. the drawing portrays a female and male of the species respectively
the female is pitch black, she has huge eyes and sketchily drawn antennae on her head. she has blue-purple lighting on the side of her face to bring out the details. Under her is white text surrounded by a black box that reads, "FEMALE".
The male is drawn in a far more simplified and cartoonish way. He is yellow and has a lighter sand color "mane" around his neck. he has huge, green eyes with beady pupils. he has rounded antennae. below him is text that reads, "male". end id]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/f1014b9292a7dd5e95fb21b9a36288a2/a63d91e5d2a95aac-9d/s500x750/50d3c5f364f0d7cf4999cf4c63929b23ef63ff7a.png)
(Actual bugs under the cut, CW for insects)
Ethereal nature
I think we need some dog sized bees. Or better yet, horse sized bees! Specifically the fluffy bees, btw. They are so soft and cute and I just want to pet them and hold them and fly on their backs and be best friends with them. I think a new would make a very good best friend :))
JUST LOOK AT HOW SOFT AND CUTE THEY ARE! I JUST WANNA BE HIS BESTEST FREN! 🐝
BEES
This will be available as a print on my shop within the next couple weeks. Working on a full shop update.
Edit: PRINT AVAILABLE NOW
how do u actually save bees?
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