Pollinator buffet

Late-blooming native thistles provide a bountiful buffet for pollinators when other plants are senescing at the end of the growing season.

 

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail -dark female- (Pterourus glaucus syn. Papilio glaucus) Charles County, Maryland pictured with a Honeybee on Field Thistle (Cirsium discolor).

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