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• Article: Rise Of The Robot Bees: Tiny Drones Turned Into Artificial Pollinators
  Pollinators of important crops are threatened with the challenges in the environment. Can robot drones help? Find out in this article about scientists developing prototype drones for artificial pollination.
• Video Collection: AskNAture- Biological Strategies of bats
  This AskNature video collection focuses on the biological strategies and other qualities bats have developed such as wing flexibility, biosonar, saliva compounds, internal magnetic compass and more. Learn more bats and the innovations they inspire in this video resource. https://asknature.org/?s=bats&page=1&is_v=1
• Video Collection: AskNAture- Biological Strategies of Butterflies and Moths
  This AskNature video collection focuses on the biological strategies and other qualities butterflies have developed such as multifunctional wing scales, cocoon building, flight patterns, thermoregulation, and more. Learn more about butterflies and moths and the innovations they inspire in this video resource. https://asknature.org/?s=butterflies&page=3&is_v=1
• Video: Why is biodiversity so important? - Kim Preshoff
  Our planet’s diverse, thriving ecosystems may seem like permanent fixtures, but they’re actually vulnerable to collapse. Jungles can become deserts, and reefs can become lifeless rocks. What makes one ecosystem strong and another weak in the face of change? Kim Preshoff details the answer is biodiversity in this TEDed video.
• Alexandra Toland: Dust Blooms. Can we put a price on the services that urban flowers provide?
  Artist and landscape planner Alexandra Toland worked with experts in environmental microbiology, urban soils, and of course urban ecosystem services to explore the ability of flowers to help filter atmospheric particulate matter (PM.) https://we-make-money-not-art.com/dust-bloom-can-we-put-a-price-on-the-services-that-urban-flowers-provide/
• Article About Pollinators
  Birds, bats, bees, butterflies, beetles, and other small mammals that pollinate plants are responsible for bringing us one out of every three bites of food. They also sustain our ecosystems and produce our natural resources by helping plants reproduce.
• Article: Butterfly Wings May Improve Airplane Wings
  With a flap of its wings, the butterfly is causing a flurry in the science world.  Through a science called biomimicry, researchers are learning how butterfly wings could improve the design and manufacture of several commercial products.Mechanical engineers are mimicking nature to shorten your next flight. https://www.insidescience.org/video/butterfly-wings-may-improve-airplane-wings
• Article: How flowers use scent and nectar to manipulate pollinators and herbivores
  How flowers use scent and nectar to manipulate pollinators and herbivores.
• Article: Potential Risk to Pollinators from Nanotechnology-Based Pesticides
  The decline in populations of insect pollinators is a global concern. While multiple factors are implicated, there is uncertainty surrounding the contribution of certain groups of pesticides to losses in wild and managed bees. Nanotechnology-based pesticides (NBPs) are formulations based on multiple particle sizes and types. Find out more in this research article. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6943562/
• Edible NM Magazine article: Creative Pollination
  Los Foodies is a community. Los Foodies is you, Los Foodies is us. Los Foodies is new Mexico cuisine. We are a group of Foodies who are constantly in search of the best that the new Mexico Food and Beverage industry has to offer.
• Student Example: Nature inspired industrial design sneaker by student
  Example of nature inspired industrial design sneaker by RISD student
• Video Collection: AskNAture: Biological Strategies of Hummingbirds
  This AskNature video collection focuses on the biological strategies and other qualities hummingbirds have developed such as hovering, unique metabolism, efficient tongue pumps, and more. Learn more about the hummingbird and the innovations it inspires in this video resource. https://asknature.org/?s=hummingbirds&page=0&hFR%5Bpost_type_label%5D%5B0%5D=Biological%20Strategies&is_v=1
• Video Collection: AskNAture- Biological Strategies of Pollen
  This AskNature video collection focuses on the biological strategies and other qualities pollinating plants have developed such as dispersal methods, ultraviolet roadmaps, water conservation, internal mutualistic relationships and more. Learn more pollinating plants and the innovations they inspire in this video resource. https://asknature.org/?s=pollen&page=4&is_v=1
• Video Collection: AskNAture- Biological Strategies of Wasps
  This AskNature video collection focuses on the biological strategies and other qualities wasps have developed such as nest building, incubating young, camouflage, and more. Learn more about the wasp and the innovations it inspires in this video resource. https://asknature.org/?s=wasps&page=1&is_v=1
• Video Collections: Bees
  This Ask Nature resource features a collection of morphological traits of bees, completed as part of a study about bio-inspired design at the University of Calgary. https://asknature.org/collections/bees/
• Video: Ecosystem services
  How is biodiversity essential to humans? We couldn't survive without it! Biodiversity supplies food, shelter, medicine and so much more to humans. Find out more in this California Academy of Sciences video.
• Video: How do paper wasps upcycle? – AskNature Nuggets
  If you check under the eaves of your home or garage, you might notice that paper wasps have been busy building nests. Through wind, rain, and snow, those nests provide a sturdy and waterproof home for wasp colonies. But how are they made at from what materials? Sherry Ritter, one of our favorite biologists at the design table, explains. https://vimeo.com/70011362
• Video: Electric Buzzaloo: How Bees See the Invisible
  Bees are amazing social insects, and their relationship with flowers is one of nature's coolest examples of "mutualism". It got me wondering: How do bees see the world? Enjoy this look at how bees see in ultraviolet and even sense electric fields!
• Video: Honey Bees Make Honey ... and Bread? | Deep Look
  Honey bees make honey from nectar to fuel their flight – and our sweet tooth. But they also need pollen for protein. So they trap, brush and pack it into baskets on their legs to make a special food called bee bread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAKkjD3nEv0&list=PLdKlciEDdCQA1MVDuyxZPVloYV3wpunMO&index=28&t=0s
• Video: Secret of the Hummingbird's Tongue
  Instead of drinking through a straw-like structure, as many insects do, hummingbirds use their tongues' to lap up nectar. In just a second or so, a hummer can drink up all the liquid a flower has to offer. High-speed macro photography has now revealed how they do it. https://www.pbs.org/video/nature-secret-hummingbirds-tongue/
• Video: This Vibrating Bumblebee Unlocks a Flower's Hidden Treasure
  Most flowering plants are more than willing to spread their pollen around. But some flowers hold out for just the right partner. Bumblebees and other buzz pollinators know just how to handle these stubborn flowers. They vibrate the blooms, shaking them until they give up the nutritious pollen. Find out more about the science of buzz pollination in this Deep Look video by PBS. https://www.pbs.org/video/deep-look-bumblebee/
• Video: What Gall! The Crazy Cribs of Parasitic Wasps | Deep Look
  Plenty of animals build their homes in oak trees. But some very teeny, tricky wasps make the tree do all the work. And each miniature mansion the trees build for the wasps' larvae is weirder and more flamboyant than the next. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOgP5NzcTuA&list=PLdKlciEDdCQA1MVDuyxZPVloYV3wpunMO&index=6&t=0s
• Video: What Gives the Morpho Butterfly Its Magnificent Blue? | Deep Look
  What does it mean to be blue? The wings of a Morpho butterfly are some of the most brilliant structures in nature, and yet they contain no blue pigment -- they harness the physics of light at the nanoscale. Learn more about these butterflies in this Deep Look video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Ts7CsJDpg&list=PLdKlciEDdCQA1MVDuyxZPVloYV3wpunMO&index=5&t=0s
• Video: What happens to bees during a solar eclipse?
  What happens to bees during a solar eclipse? Citizen scientists found out. See what they observed in this Australian Academy of Science video.
• Video: Without Bees, the Foods We Love Will Be Lost
  Bees, which pollinate crops like apples, blueberries, pumpkins, and watermelon, are facing huge challenges to their survival, such as the overuse of neonic pesticides. https://www.nrdc.org/stories/without-bees-foods-we-love-will-be-lost