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smithsonianmag.com

See the Flowers that Bloom All At Once, One Night a Year

The mysterious night-blooming cereus just dazzled a garden in Tucson. Scientists still aren’t sure exactly how they bloom at the same time

sciencenews.org

Tiny scales in ancient lagoon may be the first fossil evidence of the moth-butterfly line

Fancy liquid-sipper mouthparts might have evolved before the great burst of flower evolution

newscientist.com

Bees collect honeydew from bugs before spring blossoms arrive

In the absence of nectar, bees get by on the sweet secretions of other insects — but they still need flowers for their protein-laden pollen.

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Cute bees you probably didn’t know
1. Leafcutter Bee
2. Metallic Sweat Bee
3. Carpenter Bee / Blue Carpenter Bee
4. Cuckoo Leafcutter Bee
5. Orchid Bee
6. Teddy Bear Bee

(via bee-king)

BeeFTA 2018 - The Shutterbug Award

NOMINEE 1 - Ming Thein (Insect macro photography techniques – an ongoing experimentation)

NOMINEE 2 - Vicky-Michelle Squire - cameraless photography to create vivid and detailed colour prints of real butterflies, beetles and bees

NOMINEE 3 - Scientists are buzzing after developing tiny cameras that are so small they can be placed on bees.

NOMINEE 4 - Entomology Project showing the Iridescent microworld of insects - Francesco Bagnato

Butterfly Animation

(Source: littlekingdoms, via littlekingdoms)

nature.com

Most insect studies lack crucial species information

Survey results suggest that a lot of entomology research could be impossible to replicate.

A beautiful Kentish snowdrop garden… a paradise for pollinators early in the year. There were over 400 different varieties of snowdrop in this garden!

phys.org

Study highlights importance of vertebrate pollinators

The importance of birds, mammals and reptiles for pollinating plants around the world is the subject of a major new study involving the University of East Anglia.

BeeFTA 2018 - Best Pollination Exhibition Award

NOMINEE 1- Cross-Pollination at 516 Arts

NOMINEE 2 - PolliNation 2017 Community Art Project Exhibition

NOMINEE 3 - Cross-Pollination Exhibition at The National Botanical Garden of Wales

NOMINEE 4 - Nectar: War Upon the Bees at Pratt Manhattan Gallery