E.Coli | It’s Not All Bad News…

1. E.Coli by Luke Jerram | Sheffield Winter Gardens | 31 October 2015 | © Little Bits of Sheffield | S_1040760

2. E.Coli by Luke Jerram | Sheffield Winter Gardens | 31 October 2015 | © Little Bits of Sheffield | S_1040761

3. E.Coli by Luke Jerram | Sheffield Winter Gardens | 31 October 2015 | © Little Bits of Sheffield | S_1040768

4. E.Coli by Luke Jerram | Sheffield Winter Gardens | 31 October 2015 | © Little Bits of Sheffield | S_1040769

E.Coli sculpture by Luke Jerram at Sheffield Winter Gardens 31 October 2015.

I found these images in my archive from a couple of years ago, so I’m afraid this one is a little bit late! I thought they were worth sharing if only to acknowledge that even bits of nature we perceive to be bad can be also be good.

Because of the harm it can do to humans E.Coli generally gets a bad press. It wasn’t until I saw this sculpture and the description in the last photograph that I learned how scientists have been able to separate the good from the bad and the ugly…