Pollination Power

Portraying the varied and cunning ways flowers lure their pollinators at the appropriate time, Pollination Power combines art with science. By using new photographic techniques, hidden patterns in the flowers are revealed to the human eye. Featuring both temperate and tropical flora, and some popular garden flowers as well as endangered species, Pollination Power will appeal to everyone with a passion for plants, whether they are botanists, gardeners, or naturalists, and the psychedelic UV images will also appeal to art lovers.

Pollination Power is a visual tribute to the birds and the bees, and the essential evolutionary dance of pollination.  The health of ecological systems around the world--and their economic wellbeing too, when it comes to agricultural crops.--depends fundamentally on the relationship of plants to their pollinators. This book brings readers face to face with beetles, flies, hoverflies, and bee flies, wasps, and hornets to moths and butterflies as well as geckos, birds, and mammals as they approach their floral target. Deploying state of the art photographic techniques, and with the gardens of Kew as her inspiration, she decodes the science of pollination, often unseen to the hidden eye.  Featuring both temperate and tropical flora, and some popular garden flowers as well as endangered species, Pollination Power will appeal to everyone with a passion for plants-- botanists, gardeners, and naturalists alike.