#native pollinators

[julianplum]

🪻🌿 🐝 🌱 ✨ // campanula & green metallic sweat bees // gouache on hot press paper // part of my native pollinators series

Tiny sweat bees are underlooked native pollinators. These solitary little guys nest in the ground and pollinate an incredibly wide array of native wildflowers and food crops, including squashes, melons, blueberries, and cranberries. They also love the bright purple bells of wild campanula!

[mossypidder]

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

[jenfoundabug]

Gorgeous creature <3

I planted a small patch of native wildflowers this summer, and it's amazing how many more species I'm seeing. This is a male Agapostemon texanus, a type of sweat bee. Females of this species are solid metallic green and don't have yellow and black stripes. They're quite beautiful but even more skittish than the males. Northern California, US

[ouzel-time]

being fundamentally unafraid of insects and stuff is so great. like you can go up to someone like this and just

[snekdood]

*casually posts this at the same time to further my agenda of growing native plants instead of grass and shitty ornamentals*

[bigpappahope]

[faguscarolinensis]

Xylocopa virginica on Tagetes lucida / Eastern Carpenter Bee on Mexican Marigold at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[isle-na]

Wednesday, late night Moth sketching. Putting out some Hummingbird Clearwing dreams for tonight

[leafycollages]

milkweed

portfolio | insta

[the-cosmic-creature]

made a friend today!

[neffiethimble]

today is a good day to bee

[rebeccathenaturalist]

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[ribesaureum]

A lil globemallow bee.

I love her

[ouzel-time]

A local BBB (Big Beautiful Bee) enjoying my swamp milkweed.

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

I know a lot of people are into the idea of replacing their lawn with natives but I don’t see much information on where to start with native plants, so I wanted to share the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center native plant database, specially the recommended species page. It includes the US and Canada, and you can select your state or province. And it gives a list of native species they recommend for their environmental impact. You can also narrow the search on the type of plant, sun exposure, height, bloom time, all sorts of stuff! Also if you live in Texas they have a ton of specific information about different eco regions there because that’s where they are located.

[bigpappahope]