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Echoing my print of insects for Manufactured Ecosystems about the future of pollination this print is intended to drive home how much we are dependent on insect pollinators. These are many of the food crops we grow here in Ontario which benefit from insects. I didn’t include crops grown for oil or as livestock feed. 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #typography #ManufacturedEcosystems #food #agriculture #pollination #mastoArt

As described this is my 16” x 20” linocut print illustrating food crops grown in Ontario which benefit from insects. In a circle in the centre is text carved to appear hand lettered, printed in black. Arcing upwards reads “OUR FATE”. Horizontally across the middle reads “IS TIED”. Arcing downwards in smaller text reads “TO THAT OF THE”. Arcing downwards in larger text on the second line reads “INSECTS.” Scattered around the words are fruits, berries and life sized vegetables.
Clockwise from top: cranberry, eggplant, green bean, apricot, field cucumber, blueberries (both low and high bush), gooseberry, plum, raspberry, pole bean, haskap, pumpkin, peach, watermelon, sour cherry, cantaloupe, currents, kidney bean, zucchini, apple, snap bean, acorn squash, blackberry, pear and in the centre: tomato, yellow pepper and strawberry.

Next time you see tiny thrips on a flower, remember: they might be doing vital pollination work! (9/9)
Read the full article 👉 https://doi.org/ph5h

#AoBpapers #Thrips #PlantScience #Pollination

🌱🌸 Join us to learn about the newly published paper ‘Tiny but significant: on the importance of thrips as pollinators’ in @AnnBot by Cristina Pop and co-authors. 🧵(1/9)

👉 https://doi.org/ph5h

#AoBpapers #Thrips #PlantScience #Pollination

Tiny but significant: on the importance of thrips as pollinators

No more greenwashing for Tesla...

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/05/21/tesla-ceo-heads-back-home-leaving-a-potential-honeybee-crisis-behind/

#esg #esginvesting #sustainableinvesting #sustainability #foodsystems #foodsupply #honeybees #bees #colonycollapse #agriculture #farming #pollination #pollinators #insects #tesla #elonmusk #doge #federalbudget #greenwashing

No more greenwashing for Tesla...

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/05/21/tesla-ceo-heads-back-home-leaving-a-potential-honeybee-crisis-behind/

#esg #esginvesting #sustainableinvesting #sustainability #foodsystems #foodsupply #honeybees #bees #colonycollapse #agriculture #farming #pollination #pollinators #insects #tesla #elonmusk #doge #federalbudget #greenwashing

🦋🪻🌸🐝💚 Spent a lovely afternoon wandering about in the sunshine at #ArdgillanCastle and enjoyed a cuppa from their tearooms while basking in the sun, watching the birds and bees do their thing all around.

#️⃣: #ireland #meath #ardgillancastle #balbriggan

#🐝 #pollinator #pollination #pollinators🐝 #wildgarden #meadow #beefriendly #beefriendlyflowers #bees #bees🐝 #beesatwork

#☘️ #travel #travelireland #discoverireland #tourismireland #meathtourism #visitireland #visitmeath in #irelandsancienteast

#worldbeeday #art #mastoart #illustration #kleinekunstklasse #surrealism #pollination
Polli Nation – Befruchtung – Weltbienentag
Wer befruchtet in Zukunft die Pflanzen, wenn die (Wild-)Bienen aussterben?

Im Vordergrund streckt sich von links eine große Hand ins Bild, die mittels eines großen Pinsels die riesige Blüte eines Lippenblüters bestäubt. Rechts davon führt ein langer von Telegrafenmasten gesäumter Weg über eine Mauerkrone an Gärten vorbei. Männer in Anzug und Hut steigen zu den Gärten hinab, um die Blüten mit Pinseln zu bestäuben. Im Mittelgrund ist eine Frau im Kittel damit beschäftigt, eine weitere riesige Blüte ebenso zu bestäuben, während drei kleine Putti ihr Gesellschaft leisten. Im Hintergrund tauchen die Industriegebäude einer großen Stadt aus dem Dunst auf.

Thinking about possible futures for pollinators for #ManufacturedEcosystems I’ve imagined a future where habitat restoration and pollinator gardens are embraced, placed everywhere they can be in an urban environment including residential front and backyards and on green roofs combined with a move to climate friendly energy sources like these rooftop solar panels. This multimedia with linocut map shows many trees, 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #multimedia #sciart #pollination #gardens #mapArt

As described this is my 15” x 15” multimedia artwork depicting an urban neighbourhood as a map showing semi-detached homes, roads, one apartment building, vehicles and vegetation from above. On this utopian imagined future all front, back and side yards are green with flowers, pollinator gardens and many trees. The rooftops all have pollinator gardens and/or solar panels. A single car and two bicyclists with bike trailers are on the road. Road and buildings are simply depicted in grey with yellow line.

Yes, it’s a spider. Sorry, arachnophobes.

This is a yellow garden spider, also known as a writing spider in its web. For #ManufacturedEcosystems this is another imagined animal interaction with a robobee or other pollination drone. Spiders have some PR issues so I don’t know if I can make people empathize with spiders whose food sources are being depleted by the decline in insect pollinators. 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #nature #yellowGardenSpider #spiderWeb #pollination #orbWeaver #MastoArt

This is my 8”x10” linocut of a yellow garden spider, also known as a writing spider in its web against a green background. The yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia) are quite lovely. The larger female spiders like this lady are striking with their yellow and black markings on their abdomen and their mainly white cephalothorax. They are 19-28 mm (0.20” - 0.35”) in body length so I have printed her more or less life sized, on her web with its distinctive feature, the zigzag stabilimentum, a telltale sign of this specific orb spider found from Canada to Columbia. There is a black robobee pollination drone caught in her web. It has a vertical shaft, two wings and a tripod base and is a bit smaller than the spider.

🐝🌼 Did you know pesticides can change how and what bees forage, which can affect pollination? A study by Megan Elizabeth Deeter, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Lucy A. Snyder & Charlotte A. D. Meador shows that some pesticides cause bees to lose fat faster, pushing them to collect fattier pollen to make up for it. More of their findings in their dataset and article at https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.22357315 & https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.245404. Image: Deeter et al. (2023). CC BY 4.0
#OpenData #OpenScience #HoneyBees #Pollination

The flow chart depicts the process of classifying foraging trips observed in experiment 2 as (1) orientation flights or (2) foraging trips, including whether a trip was counted as the first recorded age of first forage and whether the forager collected pollen or exclusively water/nectar, and (3) the circumstances in which an observation was removed from the dataset.

More pro-pollinator propaganda for #ManufacturedEcosystems: in a future where we rely on pollination drones in the absence of natural pollinators can we be relied upon to pollinate wildflowers? Plants we deem weeds?

The loss in pollinator species & just sheer numbers is frankly staggering but we can make choices to better protect pollinators now to ensure a future where they persist & fill their niche.🧵

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #lettering #wildColumbine #wildflowers #pollination #ecology

My 11” x 14” linocut print shows a Canada or wild columbine with green stems and leaves and hanging red and yellow flowers at the bottom. There are three different models of pollination drones above the wildflowers at various heights, printed in black. One is the robobee with vertical shaft, two wings and tripod base. One looks like a robot crane fly. One looks like a miniature 4 winged drone with multiple feet. On top of this in magenta sans serif type is the slogan “DON’T LET DRONES DECIDE”

I managed to triple the yield from my apple tree this year by doing a little artificial pollination.

Last year I had one apple. Now there's three:).

#nature #apple #pollination

📢 The #openscience collection of the #HorizonEU-funded project #WildPosh opens up with the Grant Proposal!

🤝 At #WildPosh, 17 partnering institutions are teaming up to enhance the #sustainable health of #pollinators & #pollination services.

The dragonhunter is the largest clubtail dragonfly of SE Canada and the eastern US and it feeds on large insects like other dragonflies or monarch butterfly which it ambushes from above. For Manufactured Ecosystems I’ve imagined a dragonhunter ambushing an insect-inspired pollination drone. It may very well capture them but it could not eat them. We cannot simply replace declining numbers of pollinators with drones. 🧵

#linocut #printmaker #sciart #pollination #mastoArt #dragonfly #dragonhunter

Eyes on the prize 🐝 🧡 #nature #photography #pollination #bloomscrolling #gardenhour #bees #flowers 📷 me

On the #CommunityAllotment we have a large Bon Chretien pear tree which is allegedly self fertile but never produces much fruit. Always has lots of flowers but only had 3 pears last year and 1 the year before. A friend says she hangs a flowering branch from a different pear tree on her one and pops the end in a jar of water. So I liberated a flowering branch from a comice pear tree in the council car park and popped it in water on our tree .. and things are looking much better. Lots of set fruit this time so fingers crossed. #permaculture #OrganicGardening #AllotmentLife #GrowYourOwn #pollination

Close up image of a branch of a pear tree with healthy green leaves with grey gravel in the background. At the centre top of the image can clearly see 3 tiny baby pears are developing.

Other insectivorous species may be in trouble as pollinator populations fall. We cannot simply replace bees and other pollinators with robots.

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #pollination #mastoArt #loggerheadShrike #shrike #wildlife #ManufacturedEcosystems

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A piece for Manufactured Ecosystems about the future of pollination about who decides what gets pollinated if humans and our devices are the only pollinators.

The definition of “weed” is usually pretty arbitrary and usually all sorts of native plants get caught up in our human biases. Milkweed is insanely popular with the pollinators in my garden and the host plant of the monarch butterfly. 🧵1/2

#linocut #sciart #printmaking #pollination #future #milkweed #ecology

My linocut print on Arches paper with a deckle edge shows a common milkweed plant on collaged washi papers in green and plum overprinted with magenta sans serif text “WE’RE NOT WEEDS” with the Robobee pollination drone in black on an angle inside the O. The little drone is a vertical shaft with a dot and two wings at the top and a tripod at the bottom.

For the Manufactured Ecosystems art show about the future of pollination I have been looking at what nature-inspired technologies exist or are already proposed or that I could envision to pollinate plants, faced with a precipitous drop in pollinator numbers. But, I am also turning an artist’s eye to larger implications. 🧵1/n

#sciart #linocut #printmaking #pollination #pollinators #hummingbirdClearwingMoth #cherryBlossom #MastoArt

My linocut print on 16” x 20” Arches paper with deckle edge with collaged washi paper of branches of pink cherry blossoms with a hummingbird clearwing moth in burgundy, sage green and black and a tiny black pollination drone called a Robobee. The drone has two wings, a vertical structure and tripod feet and is smaller than the moth.

A new arrival. Isn't she beautiful? 💜 #mayblooms #bloomscrolling #nature #photography #purple #pollination #gardenhour 🐝

#Pollination

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