Grizzly Creek Films

09.17.2019

Grizzly Creek Films

Grizzly Creek Films

Grizzly Creek Films is an award-winning independent production company headquartered in the heart of the Rocky Mountains in Bozeman, Montana. The company's wide-ranging natural history productions have taken its filmmakers from the bottom of the Grand Canyon to the snowcapped summits of British Columbia and into the deepest swamps of the Everglades. In every production, regardless of location or subject matter, they strive to combine signature storytelling, authentic emotion, and breathtaking imagery. To see more of their work, visit grizzlycreekfilms.com or follow them on Instagram @grizzlycreekfilms.

Captured on July 5, 2018, this was the first photograph to document pollination of a ghost orchid bloom. Contrary to the expectations of many experts, who believed that the giant sphinx moth was likely the only pollinator of the ghost orchid, this moth is a fig sphinx. The yellow bundle on its head is a ghost orchid pollinium (pollen cluster). Photograph by Carlton Ward Jr. Ghosts of the Everglades 07.11.2019 Immersive - Clinging to survival in shrinking swamps, ghost orchids are so elusive that their pollinators have remained unknown—until now. One team’s findings may help to save both the flower and its threatened home.

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