for me it’s all about what’s intriguing
what’s a little bit different a poke in
the eye of society adds an element of
positiveness to anything that I might do
well when I was young there was really
no question that I wouldn’t be working
outside and I wouldn’t be working with
animals when I was an undergraduate I
did a lot of collecting of insects
I took advanced insect economy just so
that I had an excuse to go out and learn
about those groups I don’t have a lot of
boundaries with what’s work and what’s
home life so you’ll see that I’m working
on bees late at night or photoshopping
and I might also go out and collect in
the field the real reason that I got
interested in bees was because there was
all this discussion of declines and
native bees and our regional bees and
there are a lot of issues like that and
as a person who deals with surveys and
censuses and quantities and statistics
I was curious to see whether there was
any information that you know was
quantified about that can you prove that
they were declining and it turned out
the short answer was no there wasn’t any
census of bees or those kinds of things
our insect photography I think of as
more like insect wedding we’re looking
for really pretty bees as frankly is the
way it was they would have to have good
hair the pose has to be something that’s
appealing so their legs can’t be all
over the place um we have to see the eye
the eye is something that everyone is
focusing on we take these very detailed
high-definition pictures of bees so that
people have what essentially might be a
virtual museum you can look at them
online even if you don’t have a music
I’m nearby or you don’t have your own
collection we can say that in bumblebee
species some of the bumblebees have
either disappeared or declined greatly
and the only reason we can say that is
because the decline has been so massive
moving from something that was one of
the most common bees around and now we
can’t find a whole set of these so we
knew that was a problem that’s an issue
the main factor that drives the decline
and the conservation issues surrounding
any plant or animal in the United States
which is loss of habitat the majority of
bee species in the wild are looking for
native plants of a certain kind so you
remove those native plants you remove
those bees and the more we affect our
environment by building on it or moving
into agriculture we just naturally have
lost a big chunk of bee populations the
main human compunction is to neat and
tidy things up so if I own a piece of
property then I’m very likely to want to
mow it all the time and make it look
like a magazine house and that is the
absolute worst thing that you could do
for any kind of native animal or plant
and certainly for bees this is the kind
of thing that I encourage people to have
which is this could just be lawn but
instead it’s a bunch of wild
blackberries there’s other native plants
here I feel very strongly about
recycling and living a I know in a way a
clean life or a right life where I have
as low impact as I can on the earth I
want to be in a place that resonates
with me I guess my philosophy is you are
what you see and this house and lease
components of it are my sense of beauty
and harmony
you’re not saying it’s for everybody but
when I go in I feel relieved it’s
something that I want to be
so can’t really buy
what’s a little bit different a poke in
the eye of society adds an element of
positiveness to anything that I might do
well when I was young there was really
no question that I wouldn’t be working
outside and I wouldn’t be working with
animals when I was an undergraduate I
did a lot of collecting of insects
I took advanced insect economy just so
that I had an excuse to go out and learn
about those groups I don’t have a lot of
boundaries with what’s work and what’s
home life so you’ll see that I’m working
on bees late at night or photoshopping
and I might also go out and collect in
the field the real reason that I got
interested in bees was because there was
all this discussion of declines and
native bees and our regional bees and
there are a lot of issues like that and
as a person who deals with surveys and
censuses and quantities and statistics
I was curious to see whether there was
any information that you know was
quantified about that can you prove that
they were declining and it turned out
the short answer was no there wasn’t any
census of bees or those kinds of things
our insect photography I think of as
more like insect wedding we’re looking
for really pretty bees as frankly is the
way it was they would have to have good
hair the pose has to be something that’s
appealing so their legs can’t be all
over the place um we have to see the eye
the eye is something that everyone is
focusing on we take these very detailed
high-definition pictures of bees so that
people have what essentially might be a
virtual museum you can look at them
online even if you don’t have a music
I’m nearby or you don’t have your own
collection we can say that in bumblebee
species some of the bumblebees have
either disappeared or declined greatly
and the only reason we can say that is
because the decline has been so massive
moving from something that was one of
the most common bees around and now we
can’t find a whole set of these so we
knew that was a problem that’s an issue
the main factor that drives the decline
and the conservation issues surrounding
any plant or animal in the United States
which is loss of habitat the majority of
bee species in the wild are looking for
native plants of a certain kind so you
remove those native plants you remove
those bees and the more we affect our
environment by building on it or moving
into agriculture we just naturally have
lost a big chunk of bee populations the
main human compunction is to neat and
tidy things up so if I own a piece of
property then I’m very likely to want to
mow it all the time and make it look
like a magazine house and that is the
absolute worst thing that you could do
for any kind of native animal or plant
and certainly for bees this is the kind
of thing that I encourage people to have
which is this could just be lawn but
instead it’s a bunch of wild
blackberries there’s other native plants
here I feel very strongly about
recycling and living a I know in a way a
clean life or a right life where I have
as low impact as I can on the earth I
want to be in a place that resonates
with me I guess my philosophy is you are
what you see and this house and lease
components of it are my sense of beauty
and harmony
you’re not saying it’s for everybody but
when I go in I feel relieved it’s
something that I want to be
so can’t really buy
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