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Fun Pollinator Related Things

Art

Apiograph: Apiograph is an art installation that was part of the 2008 Resonating Bodies show at the *new gallery in Toronto. Using a live data feed of the pollination activity from a nest of Bombus Impatiens bees located in the gallery, a virtual garden was grown, visualizing the genetic diversity that bee polination creates (Vimeo link)

Recipes:

Baking with Honey - Work bench: reference guide for baking with honey.
Baking with Honey - Formulas: This resource has proven successful to a variety of bakers looking to enhance their product lines through bakery foods made with honey. 

Miscellaneous

Check it out; I'm an Elephant!: Even Cute Overload is getting in on the bee idea!

Honeybee Heist Game: use the arrow keys to move and the space bar to shoot!

Honey, a Taste Sweeter Than Wine: an interesting blog piece on the history of honeybees from Gherkins & Tomatoes.

Resonating Bodies Bee Trading Cards: bee trading cards focus on the biodiversity of pollinators indigenous to the natural and urban ecosystems of the Greater Toronto Area. (PDF info sheet)

Nico's wild bees & wasps - an extraordinary Flickr photostream (Dr. Nicolas J. Vereecken at Free University of Brussels, Belgium).

Rick Mercer Get's a bee beard! To find the video choose Season 6, and scoll down to select October 7, 2009. It should be the first on the list on the right hand side of the screen titled "Beard of Bees".

Pollination Comic - What happens when pollination biologists have too much time on their hands.

Videos

Biodiversity Begins with "B" - a short video on biodiversity and bees

Life Cycle of the Honeybee in Less than Ten Minutes:

Orchid Bees - Euglossa

Pollination, Plants and Insects

Solitary Bees and Wasps: Nesting Materials, Construction and Lifecycles Part 1 of 2

Crafts

Building Nests for Native Bees: some helpful ways that you can encourage Native Bees to your backyard.

Canadian Gardening Bee Box Project: creating a home for mason bees.

Resonating Bodies DIY biodiverse bee 'condos' (PDF): Bee/Wasps condos attract wood-nesting and pithy stem-nesting solitary bees and wasps. Easy DIY condos can include the following basic guidelines - you can make them in blocks, as free-form sculptures, or some sort of cross thereof.