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If you look closely at this bee and the surrounds you can see what a great job they do as pollinators. See the pollen attached to it's hairy body. You can even see the stamens and pollen being transported into the air from this hydrangea flower as he buzzes around.
Pollination
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Out watering the garden with my morning tea, I spotted this tiny pollinator exploring the Victoria Blue Salvia in my garden. I have no idea what the species is, but he was quite unconcered about me pushing my little Lumix P&S, on macro mode, right up close to him.
I know this is bright...but so was the sun...at 7:46 a.m. and I am grateful for the warmth of the Caribbean.
Large MAY be nice, becuz you can see two bee buttz:-)
I used 50mm 1.8D reversed on my Nikon D3100 for this macro.
The pollinator was about 3-4mm in size.
the image is cropped.
Aperture was f/11.
Flash was fired in manual mode at 1/32.
Feel free to share the name of this pollinator if you know.
Pollination is an important step in the reproduction of seed plants: the transfer of pollen grains (male gametes) to the plant carpel, the structure that contains the ovule (female gamete). The receptive part of the carpel is called a stigma in the flowers of angiosperms and a micropyle in gymnosperms. The study of pollination brings together many disciplines, such as botany, horticulture, entomology, and ecology. Pollination is important in horticulture because most plant fruits will not develop if the ovules are not fertilised. The pollination process as interaction between flower and vector was first addressed in the 18th century by Christan Konrad Sprengel.
I went back to the same spot that I shot a while ago, and saw that there were all these amazingly colorful flowers blooming in the background that hadn't been there before.
Colored pencil on Artagain paper. The pollen was added at the end and is calligraphy ink. :) 08-20-17
Handhold shot of a wasp pollinating a lavender plant. Taken with a Canon 50d and 55-250mm lens. Adjusted and uploaded using iPhoto.
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It’s easy to forget but humans have an immensely dependent and close relationship with the honey bee, the extinction of which would have devastating ramifications for the Earth’s ecosystem.
Last year, scientists warned of the dire threat to human welfare if bee populations...
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near Escalon in the central valley, in an almond orchard. It had rained quite a bit, so when the sun came out, the trees were swarming with bees.
A. Only 2 insects visited this plant during the 15 minutes I watched it. Both times, the insects landed and then flew away very quickly before I was able to take a picture of it.
B. No, my predictions did not match the pollinators that stopped at my plant. Based on the key, my predictions were birds, butterflies, and bees. The insects that visited this plant were none of those. I don't know what type of insect they were. They were extremely small and I was unable to take pictures of them.
C. My calculated pollinator per hour per flower is less than 2. There are 6 flowers in this picture and I only saw 2 pollinators. 8/6= 1.33
D. My site was much lower than this average. But it is possible that I visited my flower at the wrong time of day and if I had been there at a different time, I would have seen more pollinators.
E. I think that pollinator service could serve as a proxy for soil production. Some of the pollen could fall to the earth and provide nutrients for the soil.
Pollinated cones.
Photo by: Richard Sniezko
Date: June 14, 2003
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center.
Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon.
Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses disease resistance breeding programs for five-needled pines and Port-Orford-cedar, a native plant development program, and the National Tree Climbing Program. For additional photos of the DGRC program, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
In the spring of 2011, the U.S. Mission joined Geneva's Garden Charter and tilled on third of the grounds to be planted with a special mixture of indigenous species prepared by the Canton of Geneva's conservation office (The seed mix is called Prairie Fleurie / Melange de Geneve). The result exceeded our expectations. By mid-summer, our gardens were bursting with life and color much to the delight of U.S. Mission staff! The new gardens are easier to care for, better for biodiversity, and require less water.
U.S. Mission Geneva Photo by Eric Bridiers
Pollination
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Handheld shot of a Bee and lavender plant taken with a Canon 50d and a Canon 55-250mm lens.
Adjusted and uploaded using iphoto.
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While walking to Carkeek Park, I passed a path with some small, but beautiful pink flowers. I heard light buzzing and saw a bumblebee in one of the flowers by me, so I wanted to capture this moment. I used auto mode, but the fast shutter speed and wide aperture helped to capture the flower and its stem that I wanted, but I had to manually adjust the focus to ensure it only focused on the flower.
In post-processing, I added several edits to enhance the photo. First, I added the vivid preset to highlight the pinks and greens. I also added adjustments to geometry in distortion and cropped to remove the whitespace created by adding distortion. Then, I added local edits using the brush tool, adding overall sharpness to the focused flower area, a pink tint to only the pink of the flower to emphasize its color, and then a warm temperature and dehazing to the bee in the flower.