Echoing my print of insects for Manufactured Ecosystems about the future of pollination this print is intended to drive home how much we are dependent on insect pollinators. These are many of the food crops we grow here in Ontario which benefit from insects. I didn’t include crops grown for oil or as livestock feed. 
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Thinking about possible futures for pollinators for #ManufacturedEcosystems I’ve imagined a future where habitat restoration and pollinator gardens are embraced, placed everywhere they can be in an urban environment including residential front and backyards and on green roofs combined with a move to climate friendly energy sources like these rooftop solar panels. This multimedia with linocut map shows many trees,
Yes, it’s a spider. Sorry, arachnophobes.
This is a yellow garden spider, also known as a writing spider in its web. For #ManufacturedEcosystems this is another imagined animal interaction with a robobee or other pollination drone. Spiders have some PR issues so I don’t know if I can make people empathize with spiders whose food sources are being depleted by the decline in insect pollinators. 1/n
More pro-pollinator propaganda for #ManufacturedEcosystems: in a future where we rely on pollination drones in the absence of natural pollinators can we be relied upon to pollinate wildflowers? Plants we deem weeds?
The loss in pollinator species & just sheer numbers is frankly staggering but we can make choices to better protect pollinators now to ensure a future where they persist & fill their niche.
Other insectivorous species may be in trouble as pollinator populations fall. We cannot simply replace bees and other pollinators with robots.
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #pollination #mastoArt #loggerheadShrike #shrike #wildlife #ManufacturedEcosystems
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