Sharing. Honey Bee and Pompilid Wasp on Borreria verticillata, Paramaribo, Suriname
It seems the name of Suriname derives from a native people, the Surinen, who were driven out of the coastal areas of the Guyanas in the late fourteenth and fifteenth century by agressive Caribs and Arawaks. They disappeared into the forests...
No peaceful coexistence then and certainly even less when Europeans and their murderous slavery settled here.
Nothing like what we see here on this False Buttonwood, Borreria verticillata: a Honeybee - no doubt its forebears were imported here from Europe in the nineteenth century - and a probably native Pompilid Wasp. Both foraging for nectar on that flowerhead with lots of little white flowers.
Staying in a pleasant hotel with manicured lawns, I strayed out anyway to the edges of the riverine mangroves and moco-mocos where vegetation was wild. I got a regretably fuzzy photo of a giant lizard of perhaps 1.25 metres long catching a big rat for lunch. But the insects such as the ones in this photo were more delightful for my Sony's appetite! And just look at Bee's tongue!
PS Still belaboring the internet. Sorry.
Sharing. Honey Bee and Pompilid Wasp on Borreria verticillata, Paramaribo, Suriname
It seems the name of Suriname derives from a native people, the Surinen, who were driven out of the coastal areas of the Guyanas in the late fourteenth and fifteenth century by agressive Caribs and Arawaks. They disappeared into the forests...
No peaceful coexistence then and certainly even less when Europeans and their murderous slavery settled here.
Nothing like what we see here on this False Buttonwood, Borreria verticillata: a Honeybee - no doubt its forebears were imported here from Europe in the nineteenth century - and a probably native Pompilid Wasp. Both foraging for nectar on that flowerhead with lots of little white flowers.
Staying in a pleasant hotel with manicured lawns, I strayed out anyway to the edges of the riverine mangroves and moco-mocos where vegetation was wild. I got a regretably fuzzy photo of a giant lizard of perhaps 1.25 metres long catching a big rat for lunch. But the insects such as the ones in this photo were more delightful for my Sony's appetite! And just look at Bee's tongue!
PS Still belaboring the internet. Sorry.