Taste for Pollen. Yellow-loosestrife Bee, Macropis europaea, on Butomus umbellatus, Flowering Rush, Arcen, The Netherlands
The gardens of Arcen Castle are always a delight to visit. There's much to see for all tastes: formal rose gardens, colorful exhibitions, rambling woods, manicured lawns and many ponds. On the edge of those ponds now many Flowering Rushes, in Dutch called Swanflowers because the pistils are said to resemble those sitting birds. Here a visitor is Macropis europaea, Yellow-loosestrife Bee, lookin for pollen. Just look at the half-open stamen!
Taste for Pollen. Yellow-loosestrife Bee, Macropis europaea, on Butomus umbellatus, Flowering Rush, Arcen, The Netherlands
The gardens of Arcen Castle are always a delight to visit. There's much to see for all tastes: formal rose gardens, colorful exhibitions, rambling woods, manicured lawns and many ponds. On the edge of those ponds now many Flowering Rushes, in Dutch called Swanflowers because the pistils are said to resemble those sitting birds. Here a visitor is Macropis europaea, Yellow-loosestrife Bee, lookin for pollen. Just look at the half-open stamen!