Pollinators in jeopardy and Bees as Art
Jun 14, 2015 18:28:19 #
A friend who is a passionate beekeeper invited me to photograph her working with her bees. For unknown reasons (plenty of options to guess at though...) there is a dramatic decline in the population of bees. Agricultural implications are quite unknown. As part of my motivation in nature photography, "people noticing the beauty of nature will probably care more about it...", I agreed to capture her working with her hives. Her intent is to make public more aware of the importance of bees in our world. I was happy to do so, and I was very pleased at the sheer beauty of bees, something I had never noticed before.
Jun 14, 2015 18:37:45 #
The problem seems to have been a combination of virus, parasites, over application of some pesticides and environmental factors that combined to hit the bees really hard. In many areas where the die off was first noticed the populations seem to be recovering a bit based on breeding by those individuals that were more resistent (or just lucky) and lived to re-create.
Time will tell what the final result will be.
A good start to a new hobby of doing bee portraits.
Time will tell what the final result will be.
A good start to a new hobby of doing bee portraits.
Jun 14, 2015 18:48:32 #
Jun 14, 2015 19:55:08 #
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