buff-tailed bumblebees surround a plant with a bullseye pattern.

Painting Petals

Flowers use colourful petal patterns to attract bees, with boundaries set early in development, influencing pollinator preferences.

Fruitful Gifts from Busy Bees

Planting hedges and flower strips in orchards helps to support wild bee communities, thereby improving pollination.

The Tragedy of the Bees

Weighed down by the delights of an afternoon’s jumbled scavenging you zigzag drunkenly across the sky; tumbling through monocultures to the wild abandon of your

Moonlight Pollination

Beneath Diana’s pale embrace, two moths shimmer in the starlight; waltzing through moonbeams, as they flicker across the cool embrace of noon’s forgotten corsage. Suffused

An Invisible Disorder

Your yellow petals shine with amber glow, And glisten in the cool autumnal breeze; Yet whilst I love the golden arcs you throw, It is

Flowers for Mosquitos

The Asian tiger mosquito’s a pest, It’s a vector of death-causing disease; In urban locations it makes its nest, And whilst the sun is up