5/28/2023 0 Comments Impressions by Aidan Koch![]() ![]() ![]() The music draws on the soundscapes of our field sites, and was featured in a 2014 cassette release and Secret Drum Band’s 2017 full length record, Dynamics. The book includes interviews with Hawaiian naturalists, watercolor plates and chapters on each field site that we visited. I compiled and edited our work into an illustrated book called The Hylaeus Project (designed and published by Publication Studio), and wrote a set of music compositions for Secret Drum Band. ![]() We traversed all sorts of present and former Hylaeus habitat to find them, from beaches to barren lava flows and montane forests, with our nets, aspirators, notebooks and recording devices in tow. A few years later, I took the information I had learned and began The Hylaeus Project - an experiment in using art to get the word out about these imperiled and fantastic species. In the summer of 2013 artist Aidan Koch and I spent a month in Hawaii documenting the Hawaiian Hylaeus through visual art, natural history writing, music composition, and photography. In 2008 while working for the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation I co-authored petitions to the US Fish & Wildlife Service to list seven Hawaiian Hylaeus species as endangered. These largely overlooked bees are vital pollinators of native Hawaiian plants, and they had been vanishing without hardly any notice. ![]()
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