A valley carpenter bee couple
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A valley carpenter bee couple
A selection of the finest crocheted geodes! Pattern is from Crafty Intentions (a genuine genius of these modern times) and if you try it, I would recommend beads in the 8-12ish mm range. I tried larger (the blue one) and smaller and that seems to be the sweet spot, at least for me!
A short break from the Mesozoic… here’s a European Homotherium latidens trying its hunting skills during the latest ice age some 12,000 years ago.
Here are a couple bees I’ve illustrated as part of a commission that I’m working on! 🙂
The green bee is a striped sweat bee of the Agapostemon genus & the black bee is a leaf cutter bee within the Megachile genus!
It’s always a treat to see our native pollinators, including bees of either of these genera, out in the world. Do you have a favorite pollinator, insect or otherwise? I plan to do some more pollinator illustrations, so let me know if there is a particular species you’d like to see!
Some weird birds c:
ARTIODACTYLA size chart
Artiodactyls are a very diverse group of mammals, mostly herbivores easily recognizable for their double hoofs. Deers, Camels or Hippos belong to this group. Although it's not obvious at first sight, whales also derived from this lineage, representing one of the best examples of evolution and adaptation in Natural History
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[ID: Digital illustration with some unnatural posing and proportions floating over a dark green rectangle on an off white background. Its head faces down to the center right, the majority of its body following the same angle. its front two legs are angled down, its right leg slightly drawn up. Its left long, side spike is unnaturally bent to stay in the frame. Its back legs are gathered underneath it, and its spiky tail is bent at unnatural angles, filling up space in the top left corner. In the bottom left corner is a watermark reading “LEAVES AND INKS” /end ID]
Borealopelta