Carpenter bee drawing

This entomological illustration of a carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica L., was created by entomological illustrator Alison Schroeer of Schroeer Scientific Illustration. Biological illustrator Schroeer creates scientific artwork of insects, spiders, and other natural history subjects. She also works as a medical artist.

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This page describes the entomological illustration services of Alison Schroeer of Schroeer Scientific Illustration. This entomological illustrator provides elegant and accurate artwork of scientific and medical content, with a specialty in insect art. Biological artist and founder Alison Schroeer creates illustrations of insects, spiders, and other natural history subjects.

This violet carpenter bee drawing is quite lovely even though it is in simple black and white. Wouldn't it be great for mixed media art though?

Carpenter bees may look like bumble bees, but these wood-boring pests have a few distinguishing features that can help you tell them apart including a white spot on their head (male) and a dark, shiny, and hairless abdomen. Another way to identify a carpenter bee (vs bumblebee) is to look at the damage they cause. Carpenter bees will drill holes to nest and can infest almost any type of wood structure.

A bee of the colletes genus that usually live in the ground.

Listen to Flight of the Bumblebee played by different instruments as well as in its classical violin and symphony arrangement and a jazzed up arrangement. Links included.

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