It’s #InverteFest again! 🧪🐡🦋So here is my bee (and other pollinator) propaganda for Manufactured Ecosystems. Thinking about the future of pollination and seeking solutions from technological and nature-based knowledge. This is essentially my conclusion: we can aid our beleaguered pollinators 🧵 - ThreadSky

minouette.bsky.social • 1 day ago

It’s #InverteFest again! 🧪🐡🦋So here is my bee (and other pollinator) propaganda for Manufactured Ecosystems. Thinking about the future of pollination and seeking solutions from technological and nature-based knowledge. This is essentially my conclusion: we can aid our beleaguered pollinators 🧵

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holyshitsnacks.bsky.social•1 day ago

I saw an interesting experiment Japanese farmers were testing out using bubbles to pollinate orchards. Have you heard anything about this?

minouette.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes, thanks. I have been reading more about the pollination mini drones but have also heard about bubbles for artificial pollination.

minouette.bsky.social•1 day ago

with technology but their continued success is vital. We need to foster the insects to keep ecosystems functioning. A large percentage of the food we eat depends directly on pollinators. They serve many plants and are play important roles in food webs. Pollination makes plants that we and wildlife

minouette.bsky.social•1 day ago

use for shelter, fuel & which moderate temperature & of course, produce oxygen we need to breathe. Natural habitats around us could not exist without them. Our fate is tied to that of the insects.

These insects are native bees, moths, butterflies & a beetle, vital to the ecosystem in which I live

minouette.bsky.social•1 day ago

Clockwise from top: two leaf cutter bees (Megachile relativa and M. brevis), the Imperial moth (Eacles imperialis), the Virgin Tiger moth (Apantesis virgo), an Isabella’s Longwings butterfly (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), a blue orchard mason bee (Osmia lignaria), a firefly (Photinus pyralis),

minouette.bsky.social•1 day ago

the rusty patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis), a white underwing moth (Catocala relicta), an eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), a sweat bee (Agapostemon sericeus), a hummingbird clearwing moth (Hermaris thysbe), the common eastern bumblebee (B. impatiens), a long-horned bee (Melissodes sp.),

minouette.bsky.social•1 day ago

a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and centre: eastern snail-shell nesting bee (O. conjuncta).

The once common rusty-patched bumblebee has likely been extirpated in Canada during my lifetime, but it has previously and could once again thrive here if we restore habitat.

#linocut #printmaking

minouette.bsky.social•1 day ago

This print isn’t available for sale but you can find most of these insects at https://minouette.etsy.com

bernardvanelegem.bsky.social•1 day ago

Very beautiful, Ele, I love it!

minouette.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you!

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