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Technostorks: A Documentary on Infertility and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)

Technostorks documents the true life stories of three couples - Joann and Sean, Nora and Eric, and Wendy and Rodney - as they go through infertility and in-vitro fertilization. It is the first IVF cycle for Sean and Joann, the second for Wendy and Rodney, and the fourth, and most likely the last, cycle for Nora and Eric. Technostorks documents the couples' most private moments, showing images never before seen on the screen. We follow couples into the operating room to witness egg retrievals and embryo transfers, hear their views on living with infertility, spirituality, and parenthood, and learn with them the outcomes of their IVF cycles. Throughout the film, top experts explain the technological, psychological, and spiritual aspects of assisted reproduction. In the end, not all of our couples will achieve pregnancy, but they will all undergo a personal transformation.

Caught in the act! This giant, chubby carpenter bee is a nectar thief! It was perforating the crane flower to get at the nectar, without providing pollination. Its vibrating thorax made a loud buzzing sound. Perhaps you can make out the faint blur of its rapidly moving wings. I wish I could have captured them.

This 'felonius behavior' was reported by Charles Darwin in the late1800s.

"Therefore all plants must suffer in some degree when bees obtain their nectar in a felonious manner by biting holes through the corolla."
Darwin, C. R. (1876). The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. London: John Murray.

Bee and flower. Pollination is the process by which pollen is transferred in plants, thereby enabling fertilization and sexual reproduction. Pollen grains, which contain the male gametes (sperm) to where the female gamete(s) are contained within the carpel;in gymnosperms the pollen is directly applied to the ovule itself. The receptive part of the carpel is called a stigma in the flowers of angiosperms. The receptive part of the gymnosperm ovule is called the micropyle. Picture with focus on foreground. Side view of the bee rear with wings. Picture to buy

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