#honeybees

[yipityapity]

HER GIRLFRIEND IS HIS NEMISIS THEY ARE STARCROSSED LOOK AT THEM

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🐝 here are two golden illuminations from a pair of famous early 13th c. English bestiaries:

Aberdeen Bestiary, Univ. Lib. MS 24 f.63r Aberdeen University Library

Ashmole Bestiary, MS Ashmole 1511 f.75v Bodleian Libraries

[antiqueanimals]

Nature's Marvels. Text by Lucy Berman. Illustrations by Roy Coombs. 1971.

Internet Archive

[ash-elizabeth-art]

Bees having tea, 2023

[paper-swirls]

3 lil bees!

[redmaple-goblin]

Gertie. i know what you are.

[adorkabletwilightandfriends]

Adorkable Twilight & Friends - “Dainty Expectations"

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[nemfrog]

Wax-making honeybees. Cassell's popular science. 1900.

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[studdedblurb]

Apis Mellifera on Foeniculum vulgare

[mikashida]

hiya! Could you draw a little bee? It will be cherished

I don't do requests, but you asked very politely so 🐝

[a-cottage-for-all-seasons]

They're girlfriends who start a honeybee ranch together

[foxthebeekeeper]

Still here!

[poems-she-wrote]

My Aunty had the most beautiful garden I had ever seen, she spent so much time and love on it, she would plant heaps of flowers for the butterflies and bees to come and enjoy, she fucking loved bees. She died 7 years ago, I never got the chance to tell her I’m became a beekeeper, she doesn’t know and I never get to tell her, I hope she would be proud of me that I get to go to work everyday and look after the little creatures she adored so much.

[little-humblebee]

Check out this queen laying in an observation hive 🐝

[life-on-our-planet]

Each of these massive combs can contain a hundred thousand wild bees. Together they look like a single superorganism, and this is their greatest defense. When under attack they do the synchronized flicking of their abdomens, creating these stunning waves. BBC Earth

[itscolossal]

Bees Wrap Ava Roth’s Intricately Beaded and Embroidered Motifs in Golden Honeycomb