Wings of Life

 Wings of Life

Wings of Life (known as Pollen in France) and (known as Hidden Beauty: A Love Story That Feeds the Earth in the United Kingdom) is a 2011 French-American nature documentary film directed by Louis Schwartzberg and released by Disneynature. 

It was released theatrically in France on 16 March 2011, with narration by Mélanie Laurent, and in home media markets across the US on 16 April 2013, with narration by Meryl Streep.

Wings of Life  🦋 

Directed by

Louis Schwartzberg

Narrated by

Mélanie Laurent (France)

Meryl Streep (United States)

Disneynature

A beautiful 

love story in 

danger. 

Our future 

depends on 

an amazing 

love story 

between the 

flowers and fauna 

consisting of bees, 🐝 

butterflies 🦋 , 🐦 birds 

and bats , 

which allow 

these species 

to reproduce. 

Delicate and graceful, 

the flowers 💐 are 

not content to be 

the ultimate symbol 

of beauty. 

On the contrary, 

their vibrant colors 

and their exotic 

flavors are 

so many wonders 

that attract 

pollinators and 

drunk with desire. 

All these 

small creatures

 are involved 

in a complex 

dance of seduction 

on which 

one third of 

our crops, 

a dance without 

which we 

could not 

survive ... 

Pollen presents 

the unsung heroes 

of the global 

food chain. 

Their fantastic 

worlds are 

full of stories, 

drama and beauty. 

While a fragile 

and threatened, 

essential for 

the balance 

of the planet, 

it should 

now 

actively protect ...

Watch YouTube 1

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YouTube 2 here 

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It's a special day ... 

YouTube 4 here

YouTube 5 here

The beauty of pollination ... hummingbirds..butterflies...bees  

YouTube 6 here 

It's me , an orchid and I'm one of the most cunning of all flowers. My perfume is a trick.  The orchid bee depends on me for help with his central mission in life to mate with a female bee . For weeks, he collects scent oils from orchids.   Eventually, he uses his mix of fragrances as a kind of orchid cologne to attract a female bee.  The scents come from me, a bucket orchid. (Image here) The bucket is part of my trick. The bee has to climb a waxy slope to reach the scent oils cleverly hidden. He fell into the bucket. I've filled my bucket with a sticky fluid that makes the bee sink. I provide only one escape route, which leads him just where I want it to be. After the bee climbs out, I grip him tightly, glue two pollen sacs to his back. Each sac filled with tens of thousands of pollen grains. These are the only pollen sacs I will ever produce, so I won't let him go until the glue is dry. I may wait an hour or more before loosening my grip. As he takes off, this one bee now carries my legacy. When he comes upon the scent of another orchid that same day, he heads right for it. If he slips into the bucket of this second orchid,