June 29 will be the day to buy this new set of pollinator stamps — if you are in the US. They celebrate National Pollinator Week, and I guess they were agreed far too long ago to feature hives emptied by Colony Collapse Disorder. I really like the symbolism of the design: “The designs are arranged in two alternate blocks that fit together like interlocking puzzles. In one block, the pollinators form a central starburst. In the other, the flowers are arranged in the center.” For details of the animals and flowers, see this news report.
We’ve recently had some other philatelic news, a set of eight postage stamps celebrating banana biodiversity, but whereas I can simply steal the US image from its source, the banana ones need some work. While I’m about it, I thought it would be fun to make a digital stamp collection featuring agricultural biodiversity, and I found some corkers at the official sites for Slovenia, Botswana and elsewhere. But in order to do what I plan to do, I need lots of examples. Your mission: to send me links to stamps of agricultural biodiversity, wherever you may find them. Please.