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
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
A beautiful Kentish snowdrop garden... a paradise for pollinators early in the year. There were over 400 different varieties of snowdrop in this garden!
BeeFTA 2018 - Best Pollination Exhibition Award
NOMINEE 1- Cross-Pollination at 516 Arts
NOMINEE 3 - Cross-Pollination Exhibition at The National Botanical Garden of Wales
NOMINEE 4 - Nectar: War Upon the Bees at Pratt Manhattan Gallery
LOOK AT ITS EYES! No, just look at them. Why didn’t I *see* these things in the world years ago? Reminder to myself: It’s never too late to dive into discovering the world around you. Go study the math you forgot. You got this.
BeeFTA 2018 - Snug as a Bug in Rug Award
NOMINEE 1 - Sunflower Goat
NOMINEE 2 - Dog Bee
NOMINEE 3 - Bat Cat
NOMINEE 4 - The Bee Lady & David Walliams
BeeFTA 2018 - The Songbird Award
NOMINEE 1 - Scientists discover how the distinctive pitch of mosquito wingbeats could tell us how to fight malaria.
NOMINEE 2 - The Plight of the Bumblebee (and others) by Caroline Ritchey
NOMINEE 3 - Dynamics by Secret Drum Band (an album composed in response to soundscape and form in locations chosen to draw attention to issues concerning endangered species, ecosystem function, and habitat loss)
NOMINEE 4 - The Pollination Rap