Small creatures travel from plant to plant carrying pollen on their bodies sustain our ecosystems by helping plants reproduce.

vecchia foto, pochi insetti quest'anno, sul mio balcone e non :(

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Did you see 👀 the spider on the bee? (Better in Large)

"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.” ― John Muir.

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Must be the cold medicine LOL

I still have more Alaska images I will be posting, but will intersperse them with others.

I added a bit of a painterly effect for Slider Sunday. HSS!

Have a lovely Sunday! (unless you're in Australia, then happy Monday)

Shot with Pentacon AV 80mm f2.8

The Yellow Swallowtail in the Pollinator Field in Beautiful Southern Maryland

View On Black

Un ape in un girasole diventa un insetto mimetico..

A bee on a gaillardia flower from my garden

Pollinators, they don't just ruin our photos, they play big part in preserving mother nature.

A little macro work in the garden - this is the inside of a large Daylily!

A big pollinator on a hibiscus flower, from my garden

The same Dahlia as Yesterday with pollinating Bee.

A bee pollinates lavender, climbing to the top of its bloom.

Photo taken July 26, 2022

a bee cautiously at work on a spiky Echinacea 😉 For a HMBT! ☀️

Seen in the botanical garden "Schloß Trauttmansdorff" in Meran.

Olympus E-M1 Mark II + Olympus 60mm F2.8 Macro @f3.5

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Not sure if this is a Carnolian or Italian Honey Bee at work on the sunflower. They are the two predomiant honey bees used in this area. View large to see pollin on the body.

A bee on an attractive zinnia flower from my garden

A small bee collecting pollen from a Sneezeweed wildflower, best viewed large.

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A honey bee on a cosmos flower from my garden

Winnie Palmer Nature Preserve

Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

This morning on my way to take pics of my favorite ospreys, I ran into this pollinator field. I never made it to the ospreys.

European Wasp (Vespula germanica)

Apologies for posting a Euro Wasp two days in a row but there wasn't much else around in the garden today. It was busy flying from flower to flower on the Ivy. I didn't want to get too close so this image has been cropped.

Happy Wing Wednesday!

Black-chinned Hummingbird

Keystone State Park, PA

UBC Botanical Garden, at the University of British Columbia, was established in 1916 under the directorship of John Davidson, British Columbia's first provincial botanist. It is the oldest botanical garden at a university in Canada.

Golden Hour...

This bee, most likely Leafcutting bee, Megachile sp., has a flat abdomen and it seems that it collects the pollen on the hairs of its abdomen and not in baskets as the honey bees.

TWU Butterfly Garden in Denton, North Texas

European honey bee (apis mellifera) on a parsley plant flower (herb)

Saturday Self Challenge - photographing a bee.

Spotted when I was walking Ross at Coombe Hill yesterday, there were several bees pollinating the thistles. I took several photos, this was the best one

A female carpenter bee pollinating Kunzea sp (Kunzea ambigua?), while a male carpenter bee is attempting to get cosy with her...

Happy Australian pollinator week!

(12-20th November 2022)

www.australianpollinatorweek.org.au/

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Common Hoverfly (Melangyna viridiceps)

With the Jade, Lavender and Daisies all in bloom I am seeing good numbers of Hoverflies this last week.

Brown Mirid Bug (Creontiades pacificus)

This one had been feasting on African Daisy pollen.

African Carder Bee (Pseudoanthidium repetitum)

It initially seemed there wasn't any insects around the garden today. So I spent some time, which is unusual for me to do, and then there seemed to be insects and spiders everywhere!