Pollinators

One of our backyard bee boxes complete with new nests for next year's solitary bees (the holes that are sealed with mud).

Some of the holes that are full but not sealed with mud may also contain bee larva that will hatch next year.

Janine Your email I received my art.
Wet, rainy???

Oooh, nice collection, Cernjul.

Welcome Cindy!    Glad to see you here.  It looks as if you are somewhere between Spokane Washington USA and Glacier National Park, and Banff farther up.  All mountains and valleys?

Yes, thanks Elizabeth. I live in the Kootenays....all mountains, valleys and rivers and lakes.   South of Banff though, closer to the American border. A happy place for pollinators like this Ainse Swallowtail on the Quince. 

(Whoops I think my pic is a little big!) 

 Cindy, Thanks for that.  Really worth clicking to the enlarged version, so beautiful and detailed.

Collage A4 MULTIPLE DOUBLE VISIONS

Happy Halloween!

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/photo/paques

enjoy it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBto_xnz2tw

Collage A4   WE ASSUME THE CONSEQUENCES

Guido impressive your collage.

Yves ! please stop criticise me !

collage THE TURNING POINT

Hi Pollinators!

Great to be on board - I'm an artist who has had some bees for the last 6 months so looking forward to doing some bee artwork.

Cheers

Patti

Thank you Guido for your most pertinent collage works.  Your work matters to me very much.

Oh hurray, welcome Patricia!

THE screams  OF LUNAR BUTTERFLIES, collage A4

From Natercia Tomé in France

I suppose that broadly speaking, nut burying is a form of pollinating.

Retracted pollination, one less almond to sprout in springtime:

Eros

Desplegué mis alas de mariposa azul

y visité a la flor.

Me acarició con sus estambres.

Besé su corola.

Se abrió brindándome su néctar.

Libé con fruición.

Me abrazó con sus pétalos

y con mi trompa penetré su cáliz.

Se estremeció titilando las anteras

y un baño dorado de polen nos cubrió.

Diego Gallotti

Eros

I spread my wings of blue butterfly

and visited the flower.

She stroked me with their stamens.

I kissed her corolla.

She opened giving me their nectar.

I sucked with relish.

She hugged me with their petals

and with my trunk penetrated her chalice.

She shuddered flashing the anthers

and a gold-plated pollen covered us.

Diego Gallotti

THE WILL TO BELIEVE

From Hope Kroll, USA

Diego, thank you very much for the beauty of your poetry which makes me smile.

:)

Thank you Guido and sending thanks to Hope!

With love and peace misguided fear will fade away. Really, there is enough to go around. 

New collage: Drinking to salute the pollination of the sea!

A tribute in fact to the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa and his many profiles and identities, he wrote an anastonishing ODE FROM THE SEA...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa

Thank you Guido for illuminating a place I have been once upon a time.

Pessoa, I am fortunate to have read even a little of his writing.

Hi Elizabeth,

as far as I am concerned Pessoa is the greatest poet ever lived, in all his identities.

Who brought me to poetry as a teen?

1. Paul Van Ostaijen

2. Jacques Prévert

3. Fernando Pessoa and cy

(in chronological order of discovery, not necessarily of appreciation)

G

Mariposa monarca en el Camino del Inca (Machupicchu - Perú). 2011

Collage THE POLLINATION OF VIENNA

From Roberto Oscar Gasperi, Argentina

Elizabeth Zois gracias por el hermoso Mail Art recibido!!!

Collage LES MIGRATEURS
Text fragment (GV) to read as «IN THE SILENCE OF THE FOREST THE VIRGIN LOOSES EVERYTHING EXCEPT INNOCENSE»

How beautiful your black bees are!  I had to look up your weather.  You have 23°C now?  Are at the end of summer? 

From the Occupy people in the US, found on Fb

joli  !

Small but important victory: EU decided on a 2 year ban of pesticides killing bees despite fierce opposition of multinationals like Bayer and the UK as usual. It is time to kick Cameron in the pants!

https://secure.avaaz.org/act/media.php?press_id= 422 ...

Welcome trick sensei!

Welcome 5Blanks [Cristina] !

Welcome Natalia Mozdzen!

Macroglossum stellatarum, last summer in our garden.

Hey, hey!
I like most small bugs in nature but beetles makes me smile a little extra.
I hope to be spammed with postcards (drawn or photographed) with all sorts of bugs on! :D