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Other Worlds and Future Memories by Catherine Nelson
About the work:
The Future Memories series comprises of 20 floating worlds, meticulously composed with thousands of assembled details. Visual poetry, nature photography and digital techniques blend together to give shape to these transcendental landscapes. The result is a contemporary pictorial mythology that subtly reminds the viewer of a profound truth: that it is in the flourishing variety of the local that the fate of the world resides.
Watercolor and ink work by Colleen Parker.
Images from National Geographic’s slideshow Glowing Blue Waves Explained. Come for the pretty pictures and stay for the fascinating information about bioluminescence.
I skimmed over this at first because it looked photoshopped but it isn’t and I’m really happy I took a second look.
Promiscuous Queens Make Healthy Hives
A reputation for chastity may have worked for Elizabeth I of England, but queen bees who start their reign with a royal orgy end up with healthier hives.
When queens mate with multiple males their hives end up with greater genetic diversity and more robust communities of symbiotic bacteria living in the bee’s guts. Heather Mattila, an ecologist at Wellesley College, found significantly more gut bacteria in bees from hives where the queens partnered with multiple males than in more sexually deprived hives.
(via Zdeněk Burian: Pterodactyls)
Illustration by Zdenek Burian
“Prehistoric Birds and Reptiles,” 1961
Up close and personal!!! #nature #bees #bugs (Taken with instagram)
Brown Trails by Neil Kremer
