Watching Their Dust: Photographing Players in Pollination
Jamal Al Khatib
A photographer uses high-speed cameras to capture bees and moths at work.
Pollination happens in a blur. One photographer has spent three summers slowing it down.
Using high-speed cameras and macro lenses, the project captures bees, moths and hoverflies as they brush past flowers and carry pollen away in glowing clouds.
The images are beautiful, but they are also useful: scientists use them to understand which insects move pollen most effectively, and how farms can support them.