POLLINATION-NATURE AT WORK
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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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A female Broad-tailed Hummingbird hovers before dipping into a bee balm blossom. If you look closely you can see bits of pollen on her bill.
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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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It has been said that the lack of pollinators could lead to starvation and poverty. A small insect such as a bee is important as roughly 66 per cent of all the plant species we eat rely on pollinators. With the use of insecticides such as Neonicotinoids that are making an impact on pollinators around the world. Latest evidence shows the risk that insecticides are having and which may affect us all in the future.
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.
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.
Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae. Prickles can also occur all over the plant – on the stem and on the flat parts of the leaves. These prickles are an adaptation that protects the plant from being eaten by herbivores. Typically, an involucre with a clasping shape similar to a cup or urn subtends each of a thistle's flowerheads. The comparative amount of spininess varies dramatically by species. For example, Cirsium heterophyllum has minimal spininess while Cirsium spinosissimum is the opposite. Typically, species adapted to dry environments have greater spininess. The term thistle is sometimes taken to mean precisely those plants in the tribe Cardueae (synonym: Cynareae), especially the genera Carduus, Cirsium, and Onopordum. However, plants outside this tribe are sometimes called thistles, and when this is done, "thistles" would form a polyphyletic group. A thistle is the floral emblem of Scotland and Lorraine, as well as the emblem of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Biennial thistles are particularly noteworthy for their high wildlife value, producing such things as copious floral resources for pollinators, nourishing seeds for birds like the goldfinch, foliage for butterfly larvae, and down for the lining of birds' nests. 12710
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
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)
Common Hoverfly (Melangyna viridiceps)
With the Jade, Lavender and Daisies all in bloom I am seeing good numbers of Hoverflies this last week.
"If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live." - Albert Einstein
Hmmm...I wonder how true that is. Long ago..probably true. Nowadays...who knows? Yes, bugs could be pesky, but we don't realize how important some are. Like this little bumblebee, busy collecting pollen, unknowingly pollinating this female pumpkin flower. The bees and other bugs do a fantastic job pollinating every year...I even get some pretty fascinating cross-pollinated pumpkins and gourds. Only rarely is there a slow morning insect-wise that gets me to go out and hand-pollinate.
Time to go catch up! Have a wonderful Wednesday, my friends!
I finally got outside. it was windy during golden hour, and the pollinators were just briefly lighting. This is the result...
Native paper daisy flower.
I understand the black and white patches on this little moth are attempting to make birds think it may be similar to a tiger moth.
Birds find eating tiger moths an unpleasant and extremely memorable experience.
Second version of the silver Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar T f/2.8 80mm lens @ f/2.8.