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A bumble bee and a buckeye butterfly buzz into a garden. Punchline, anyone?
Arcadia Community Garden
DeKalb County (Avondale Estates), Georgia, USA.
29 August 2022.
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▶ Can a fellow Flickr-er confirm or correct my ID of the blossoms as meadow garlic (Allium canadense)?
▶ Be that as it may, a thank you to Plantaholic Sheila for identifying the buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia)! (See the comment section below.)
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I discovered an important visitor to the lovely red lilies growing in my garden. I decided to make him the star of the photograph!
Not sure what kind of butterfly this is but it was hard to catch. It's large so it's easy to see but it never stops flapping its wings, even when it's sitting on a flower. It's very pretty though.
A gorgeous Common Buckeye with a Great Golden DIgger Wasp in the background. The Digger wasps are only interested in nectar for themselves; and katydids as their larval host. So the butterfly has nothing to fear.
365/2021 - Expanding Horizons ~ 220/365
Thank you to everyone who pauses long enough to look at my photo. All comments and Faves are very much appreciated
Not sure what kind of butterfly this is but it was hard to catch. It's large so it's easy to see but it never stops flapping its wings, even when it's sitting on a flower. It's very pretty though.
" There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot."
Aldo Leopold
This beautiful garden is maintained by volunteers. Former first lady Laura Bush was in Austin this week and gave a talk encouraging people to plant milkweed and other plants to attract Monarch Butterflies. Their numbers are diminishing rapidly.
Juvenile male Ruby-throated Hummingbird and an Ant army at work on Hosta blossoms in my garden.
Common.
Celebrating National Pollinator Week with a photo of common milkweed, a beautiful but often misunderstood plant that is THE native wildflower to protect and plant in your yard if you want to give the Monarch Butterfly a big helping hand. Photographed in the La Crosse River Marsh.
May 27, 2016
Pollen:
[pol-uh n]
noun
1. the fertilizing element of flowering plants, consisting of fine, powdery, yellowish grains or spores, sometimes in masses.
verb (used with object)
2. to pollinate.
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Took a walk in the blazing heat this afternoon trying to find something for a photo of the day, and to get some exercise, I guess.
The pollen in the sunlight really caught my eye, so I did my best to capture it. I don't think I've really done it justice here, but that's just something else to add to the list to try and perfect!
Anyway, hope everyone managed to stay cool today.
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Didn't have to go far, this is from my little prairie planting. Don't know what they are, but I think they're having fun.
I'm guessing (emphasis on "guessing") that these are mining bees. Most of the other wild geraniums in this bunch had bees inside them also. Photographed in Perrot State Park, Wisconsin.
Went to visit the rare Lizard orchids (of which there are many this year) at one of their few sites, and noticed this characterful beetle that appeared to be a pollinator; no doubt drawn by the plant's heady goat-like aroma
I bought this bee balm plant recently, and put it in a plant bag, with some fresh potting soil. I hope it doesn't develop a fungus, which always happens with my bee balm plants. This bee has lots of blossoms to visit, and I hope to see a hummingbird soon.