Title |River Sheoak, Moths & Bees
Materials | Photograph printed on cotton rag paper. Oak finish frame with glass.
Size | 25.5 x 3 x 25.5 cm
Editions | 8/20 and 9/2 sold (Contact Anne if you had your heart set on one and order with her).
A little bit more | Standing tall yet flexible along the riverbank preventing destructive soil erosion is the River Sheoak Casuarina cunninghamiana. Each year the flowering male trees turn a rusty brown attracting BeesApis mellifera to their pollen load. Female trees flash small red flowers developing into spiky seed cones upon pollination by bee or wistful wind. The wiry leaves and twigs of the trees house and feed the eggs of Sheoak MothsPernattia pusilla Sheoak the eventual caterpillar cocoons sparsely decorated with hair from their own body hang off branches like lanterns. 

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