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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

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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

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Butterfly Animation

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A beautiful Kentish snowdrop garden... a paradise for pollinators early in the year. There were over 400 different varieties of snowdrop in this garden!

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BeeFTA 2018 - Best Pollination Exhibition Award

NOMINEE 1- Cross-Pollination at 516 Arts

NOMINEE 2 - PolliNation 2017 Community Art Project Exhibition

NOMINEE 3 - Cross-Pollination Exhibition at The National Botanical Garden of Wales

NOMINEE 4 - Nectar: War Upon the Bees at Pratt Manhattan Gallery

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The lovely flowers embarrass me, they make me regret I am not a bee.

Emily Dickinson

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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. 

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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

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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