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

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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

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 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 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!

#Australianpollinatorweek Day 6

Belenois java on Actinotus helianthi

Black-chinned Hummingbird

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.

Brown Argus : Aricia agestis

Golden Hour...

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

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

Brown Mirid Bug (Creontiades pacificus)

This one had been feasting on African Daisy pollen.

Best viewed large. Thank you for your visits, faves and comments.

Common Hoverfly (Melangyna viridiceps)

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

TWU Butterfly Garden, Denton, Texas

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Explore Sep. 30, 2009 #488

Great pollinators, it is fantastic to see them very close with our macro lenses. usually very busy to care while we photograph them, but you always have to be careful specially if you don't know if you allergic to them.

Something awesome:

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Photography is my passion, and nature photography is my favorite.

I have been in Explore for more that a hundred times, and it is an awesome experience to have your photos showcased in such a special way.

I'm in many groups, and I only add my photos to them if they are not private.

I thank your for coming today, for leaving a comment, and make a favorite of yours this photo, (if that is the case) thanks again!

The best part of this forum is the contacts and friends that I have made over the years, that have the same passion for this art that is called photography!

Martha,

"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!