#bee cup

[kandidandi]

I can't plant flowers as I suck at gardening, sadly, BUT i got a wonky mug with a bumblebee on it!

OHHHHHH SO COOL I LOVE IT I WANNA SIP HONEY TEA OUT OF IT

[hello-sweetheart]

Steve (gesturing to Eddie proudly): this is my boyfriend, Eddie :)

Eddie, wide-eyed: (blinks slowly, one eye at a time)

Steve, hesitant: actually I’m not entirely sure he is a boy…

Eddie: (blinks)

Steve: …or human

Steve: but I love him :)

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Dustin: ??so I couldn’t keep dart, but you get to keep Eddie??!?

Steve (genuinely offended): excuse me!! that’s the love of my life!!

Eddie: <3 :)

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[academic-vampire]

Moodboard of @thatswh3n

[rayix]

👑 Queen Bee-lzebub 🐝

[poscariastri]

every time there's a bee in my house and i carefully pick it up and put it outside i think to myself "seb vettel would be proud of me"

[crowlines]

October update is live! There is a Lot of new stuff and restocks!! Thank you for checking it out <3

[bumblingest-bee]

drinking the best apple cider i have ever tasted. what did they put in this

[low-rez-moth]

The inspiration

The art

Wasp Cup

[indigrassy]

Beely Cup Sage

[aworldofpattern]

Luke Newton and Nicola Coughlan at the Dublin premiere of Bridgerton S3.

She wears a custom gown by Erdem, with crystal bee embroidery and bee brooch (the Bridgerton family motif). Styled by Aimée Croysdill.

He's wearing a suit by Irish designer Simone Rocha's SS24 collection, featuring 'Cake'* embellishment in faux pearls.

(*a cheeky Easter egg by his stylist, Holly White?)

[bethanythebogwitch]

Native Wildflowers collection

Native wildflowers from my previous job. All pics by me. Not an exhaustive list. Split into multiple posts due to the image limit.

Starting off with everyone's (read: monarch butterflies') favorite: milkweed. Common milkweed is on the left. I think what we called common milkweed was actually 2 closely-related species. On the right is swam milkweed, which likes wetter soil. Butterfly weed in the bottom is a milkweed, but its sap is clear instead of white so some people don't realize that. It's also much shorter than most milkweeds.

We have 2 main gentian species. These flowers don't open all the way and only larger insects like bees can force their way in. These bees then seek out gentians as an exclusive food source, making it more likely for them to pollinate the gentians. Cream gentian (left) is white and can get very tall on good years. Bottle gentian (right) is a small, low-lying plant that hides under other plants. This picture was taken early in the season so they're pretty pale. They turn bright blue when they're in bloom.

Yellow (left) and purple (right) coneflower

Mountain mint (right) and downy wood mint (left)

Wild raspberry (left) and dewberry (right). My personal nemeses when I was moving through the prairie. Thorns are not my friend

Foxglove beardtongue, which comes in a common white color (right) and a rarer purple variant (left). Below is false foxglove, which is a hemiparasite (plant that gains nutrition through parasitism and photosynthesis) that leaches off of oak roots

Bee balm, this one has a lot of ornamental cultivars

Rattlesnake master, a badass name for a weird and spiky plant

Ironweed. We have a few species and I don't know how to tell them apart

Wild quinine. In the 3 growth seasons I worked here, this one became much more common.

Prairie coreopsis (left) and tall coreopsis (right). Guess what the difference between these two is

Rosinweed (left) and cup plant (right). Two closely related species.

Maryland senna (left) and partridge pea (right). Similar (but not closely related) species that grow pods full of seeds. As they dry, the pods peel open and send the seeds flying out.

Prairie dock. These grow very tall and have huge leaves that are cool because the roots bring up water from deep underground

Ashy sunflower, a hemiparasite that kills goldenrod and tall grasses. As those two are very aggressive plants that can take over whole fields. ashy sunflower seeds are a great way to fight back against them and help increase biodiversity.

Cardinal flower. This one is endangered so its great that it's doing well and even spreading where I worked.

Common thistle. This one is unfortunately losing ground to invasive Canada thistle (not actually from Canada) and isn't very popular, but bugs love it.

Black-eyed Susan (left) and sweet black-eyed Susan (right). The latter is larger and doesn't tolerate shade as well.

Continued in part 2

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This is the second year for my backyard cup plant. It started as a giant mystery stalk which must have sprouted from a wildflower mix scattered a year or two earlier.

Cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum) is not native in Arizona, and can be invasive in some settings. But it likes steady water, so it seems to stay put in the flower bed and draw every bee, butterfly, and tiny creature from miles around.

This is all one large plant, which generated hundreds of flowers in July and August. I love it to distraction.

Cochise County, Arizona, July 2024.

[deadboystims]

✦ ┊ cardamon (bee and puppycat) stimboard with themes of agere for anon!

sources : 1 , 2 , 3 ┊ 4 , 5 , 6 ┊ 7 , 8 , 9

[reploidbuddy]

If Charmy can sit comfortably in Vector’s hand as a 6 years old, how tiny was he as an infant?

What I’m saying is baby Charmy sleeping in Vector's palm because he’s small and it’s huge and he fits perfectly