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#snails

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Damson 🌱

I painted a snail! For this painting I tried out some cold-pressed fine grain watercolour paper, for a different kind of look to the smooth hot-pressed paper I normally use. I think the more textured surface worked out pretty well!

A watercolour painting of a garden snail making it's way across some mossy red brick paving. The snail has a shiny brown shell with reddish patches, and a textured grey body. The fine grain of the watercolour paper helps make the texture of the ground and the snail's body look more uneven and knobbly.
#snails#watercolour
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Valerie Roney

I feel awful. Allergy season has hit and my immune system is PISSED, has especially kicked off that eyeball inflammation thing again which I am not amused about. There is much winging in my world today.

In other news, my #snails are *banging* ya'll. 😳

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Colin Purrington

People in eastern North America: CHECK EMPTY SNAIL SHELLS FOR BEES! An iNaturalist user in Ohio just found an eastern snail-shell mason bee (Osmia conjuncta), and I am soooo envious. The species has been found in Louisiana, Tennessee, Kansas, Virginia, New York, and Ontario, too, though some of those are awaiting confirmation. #bees #hymenoptera #osmia #snails #shells #inaturalist #insects inaturalist.org/observations/2

iNaturalistOsmia conjunctaOsmia conjuncta from Moraine, OH, USA on April 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM by dillonmr. Found inside an empty land snail shell. Found with RASAMOTO
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Colin Purrington

This summer I'm going to try luring the eastern shell-nesting mason bee (Osmia conjuncta) into my yard. The species occurs in Pennsylvania but is extremely rare, probably because its preferred shell, Anguispira kochi, is presumed to be locally extinct. But Ontario populations of the bee are thriving and seem completely happy to use shells of Cepaea (an invasive from Europe) so I thought I'd give them a try here. Yes, I know this is futile. #bees #osmia #insects #snails #shells #cepaea #pollinators #entomology #ontario #canada

Rectangular cement planter on which several dozen yellow shells are scattered on the surface, some partially covered by dried leaves.
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Colin Purrington

Beautiful print of Osmia conjuncta by @minouette. #bees #insects #snails #cepaea #shells #art #linocut spore.social/@minouette/109755

Spore by Project MushroomEle Willoughby, PhD (@minouette@spore.social)Attached: 1 image Here’s my #printerSolstice @printerSolstice #linocut for the prompt “texture”. The Eastern Snail Shell Mason Bee (Osmia conjuncta) is a small North American blue bee which makes nests in suitable empty snail shells! In my linocut I show this adorable little pollinator with a Cepaea shell. Each print is 8” by 8” on delicate Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. #printmaking #masonBee #snailShell #OsmiaConjuncta #Cepaea #sciart #EasternSnailShellMasonBee #nativeBees #pollinator #washi
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