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​Going to Bat for Bananas 2017

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​Going to Bat for Bananas 

2017


Species illustrated: Cave Nectar Bat (Eonycteris spelaea) & Banana Plant (Musa sp.)

The bananas we eat do not produce seeds and therefore must be propagated from cuttings. This practice eliminates the need for pollination, but also results in extremely low genetic diversity, which can leave commercial banana strains vulnerable to being wiped out by disease. Such disasters may require the re-establishment of seedless banana strains from wild species, which do produce seeds, and are most effectively pollinated by bats. Conservation of wild bananas and their bat pollinators is therefore an important hedge for the future of our banana supply.


24x24 oil on canvas

All sizes are measured in inches. All art is original.


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  • Need More Wildlife
  • Founder & Artist
  • Need More Wildlife Series
    • 2014 >
      • Wild Goddess
      • Where They Belong
    • 2017 >
      • High Water Everywhere
      • SOLD/ What's the Buzz?
      • SOLD/Vanishing Jewel
      • Making Hay while the Sun Shines
      • Going to Bat for Bananas
      • SOLD/Gimme Shelter
      • House Burning Down
      • SOLD/Rust Never Sleeps
      • SOLD/Ten to One, Baby, One in Ten
      • Little Cow, Little Calf Blues
      • SOLD/Bee is for Blueberry
      • Thorn Forest
      • Ghost Visited by a Giant
      • SOLD/ Losing Nemo
      • SOLD / Alpine Apparition
      • Born on the Bayou
      • Possum up a Gum Tree
      • Pollinator in Repose
      • Lost Treasure
      • Possum up a Gum Tree Prototype
      • Seeing Ghosts in the Thicket Prototype
    • 2018 >
      • Chimphood
      • SOLD/ High Water Everywhere Part II
      • Cotton Fields Back Home
      • SOLD/ A Skeleton of its Former Self
      • Mother’s Little Helper
      • Seeing Ghosts in the Thicket
    • 2020 >
      • SOLD/ HAUNTED - HOUNDED - HUNTED
      • El sueño perdido de un pangolin en las nubes (The lost dream of a pangolin in the clouds)
      • Kala caminando por el bosque saludando una mariposa (Pangolin walking in the forest greeted by a butterfly)
      • SOLD/ Kala de la noche (Pangolin of the night)
      • SOLD/ The End Approaches The Beginning
      • SOLD/ Chameleon in the field at Moca
  • Commissions
    • 2019 >
      • Jumping for Joy Prototype
      • SOLD/ Jumping for Joy
    • 2020 >
      • SOLD/ Happy Birthday Christelle!
      • SOLD/ Rap, Rap, Rap
      • SOLD/ Sweet Nectar
      • SOLD/ Bubi Bells
  • Murals
    • 2020 >
      • Bioko Mural at Moca Wildlife Center
  • Secret Admirer Series
    • Resolution
    • Sanctuary
    • Lioness Licking Leo Prototype
  • Hand-Painted Ornaments
  • Teaching
  • What to buy in Wonderland
  • Follow Us Down the Rabbit Hole!