Quiet Cornfields



David Liittschwager, a portrait photographer,  spent a few years traveling the world, dropping one-cubic-foot metal frames into gardens, streams, parks, forests, oceans, and then photographing whatever, or whoever came through. Beetles, crickets, fish, spiders, worms, birds — anything big enough to be seen by the naked eye he tried to capture and photograph.
His book of photographs, One Cubic Foot, illustrates the variety of life forms he found in various locations within the metal frames.




Science writer Craig Childs spent a couple of days among cornstalks in Iowa to do an insect census and found almost nothing! Anything that might eat or otherwise interfere with the corn was gone. We are spraying insects and other life out of existence and are creating a biological desert that produces food for one species: us.


Read more at NPR
Thanks Bruce!

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