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We have long understood the value of their honey, but we may be just beginning to appreciate the value that bees have for the meat, cotton, fruits and vegetables that we consume. The Honey Bee is responsible for 80% of all insect pollination, upon which vegetation and fruit yields depend. One can see why this tiny insect can have such a profound impact when it pollinates 90 commercial crops worldwide.

The complexity of this organism has also largely gone unappreciated. Bees demonstrate a coordinated intelligence that allows them to collectively make decisions such as choosing the best site for a nest, where each scout voices its opinion of a potential site through the strength of its "waggle" dance. They also communicate through chemical signals.

Causes for Concern
In the US, for the fourth year in a row, more than a third of colonies have failed to survive the winter. Billions of bees worldwide have died since 2006.

There is no silver bullet, but many c...

I hope these paintings will in some way inspire you to investigate these organisms further. Their wondrous forms and capabilities are often overlooked and underappreciated. Imagine the tapestry that would color your world if you could communicate using sonar (yet still be able to learn human sign language) like a dolphin, smell with the intensity of the Polar Bear, understand chemical signals like the Honey Bee, navigate up to 600 miles from memory like the Desert Elephant, or utilize the earth’s geomagnetic fields to swim 800 miles like the Green Sea Turtle. The true complexity of the communication between most organisms lies in realms we still know relatively little about. The descriptions for each painting include facts, interviews, and...