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The world’s food supply depends on pollinators. Birds, bats, bees, butterflies, beetles, and other beneficial insects and small mammals pollinate plants .A pollinator garden supports and protects these important creatures by providing food and shelter.
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BLUE-NECKED TANAGER Stilpnia cyanicollis. A Blue-necked Tanager is perching above Porotón flowers - nectar bearing, cup-like flowers of the leguminous tree, Erythrina megistophylla Diels, family Fabaceae. This occurred along the Vía Cunuco, about two miles north of Mindo, in northwestern Ecuador at 9:04 AM on August 21, 2018. The tanager has been drinking nectar from these cup-like flowers.
Endemic to Ecuador, Erythrina megistophylla has flowers adapted to pollination by passerine (perching) birds. We have observed a variety of passerine birds drinking nectar from these flowers as well as a number of hummingbird species. Porotón is one of the common names of this tree species.
The Blue-necked Tanager until recently bore the scientific name Tangara cyanicollis. It belongs to the family Thraupidae and is found from Venezuela south to Bolivia and Brazil.
Una Tangara Capuchiazul Stilpnia cyanicollis se ve por encima de unas flores de un árbol leguminoso Erythrina megistophylla, familia Fabaceae, por la Vía Cunuco unos 4 kilometros al norte de Mindo en el noroeste de Ecuador a las 9 y 4 de la mañana el 21 de agosto de 2018. La tangara bebía el néctar de las flores.
Erythrina megistophylla es un árbol endémico a Ecuador.
In Brazil, Tangara cyanicollis has the common name Saíra-de-cabeça-azul.
For OPTIMAL DETAILED VIEWING of this nectar seeking Blue-necked Tanager, VIEW AT THE COLOSSAL SIZE (1666 x 1250) using the direct Flickr link: www.flickr.com/photos/neotropical_birds_mayan_ruins/51161...
TO SEE MORE THAN 40 SPECIES OF TANAGERS, FLOWERPIERCERS, HONEYCREEPERS and ALLIES PLEASE VISIT MY TANAGER ALBUM (SET) AT www.flickr.com/photos/neotropical_birds_mayan_ruins/album...
°=° Cologne, rural Area. Small Industry building surrounded by Nature. Image manipulated in my traditional way, with Textures, Blur and Watercolors. Back to my Roots.
June 2018
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.
Red-spotted Purple, Peck’s Skipper, honeybee, Ruby-throated hummingbird, and Monarch, all captured on the same Buddleia cluster
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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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.
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 discovered an important visitor to the lovely red lilies growing in my garden. I decided to make him the star of the photograph!
Buff-tailed Bumblebee near Perito Moreno Glacier, Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina. so interesting to see flowers and forests right next to huge ice fields.
my album 2024 Patagonia--- Argentina and Chile www.flickr.com/photos/25171569@N02/albums/72177720315202727/
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Jenny Pansing photos
From Bees, to Hummingbirds and Bats. We Can’t Live Without Pollinators. It is an essential ecological survival function. Without pollinators, the human race and all of earth’s terrestrial ecosystems would not survive. Of the 1,400 crop plants grown around the world, i.e., those that produce all of our food and plant-based industrial products, almost 80% require pollination by animals.
While visiting Yolo Basin looking for birds we spotted this lovely Monarch butterfly flitting around and pollinating the field of sunflowers that were growing wild. Other common names, depending on the region, include milkweed, common tiger, wanderer, and black veined brown. It may be the most familiar North American butterfly, and is considered an iconic pollinator species. Its wings feature an easily recognizable black, orange, and white pattern, with a wingspan of 8.9–10.2 cm (3½–4 in).
BLUE-NECKED TANAGER Tangara cyanicollis. This Blue-necked Tanager is bending over as it drinks nectar from one of the cup-like flowers of the leguminous tree, Erythrina megistophylla Diels, family Fabaceae, along the Vía Cunuco, about two miles north of Mindo, in northwestern Ecuador at 9:17 AM on August 19, 2018.
Endemic to Ecuador, Erythrina megistophylla has flowers adapted to pollination by passerine (perching) birds. We have observed a variety of passerine birds drinking nectar from these flowers as well as a number of hummingbird species. Porotón is one of the common names of this tree species.
The Blue-necked Tanager belongs to the family Thraupidae and is found from Venezuela south to Bolivia and Brazil.
Una Tangara Capuchiazul Tangara cyanicollis está inclinandose para beber néctar de una flor de un árbol leguminoso Erythrina megistophylla, familia Fabaceae, por la Vía Cunuco unos 4 kilometros al norte de Mindo en el noroeste de Ecuador a las 9 y 17 de la mañana el 19 de agosto de 2018. Erythrina megistophylla es un árbol endémico a Ecuador.
In Brazil, Tangara cyanicollis is known by the common name Saíra-de-cabeça-azul.
For OPTIMAL DETAILED VIEWING of this nectar seekiing Blue-necked Tanager, VIEW AT THE COLOSSAL SIZE (2498 x 1400) using the direct Flickr link: www.flickr.com/photos/neotropical_birds_mayan_ruins/48067...
TO SEE MORE THAN 40 SPECIES OF TANAGERS, FLOWERPIERCERS, HONEYCREEPERS and ALLIES PLEASE VISIT MY TANAGER ALBUM (SET) AT www.flickr.com/photos/neotropical_birds_mayan_ruins/album...
Pink wild bergamot wildflowers, blooming on the shores of...
Madison (Maple Bluff), Wisconsin, USA.
11 July 2025.
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▶ "Monarda fistulosa — commonly known as wild bergamot or bee balm — is a perennial wildflower in the mint family (Lamiaceae), widespread and abundant as a native plant in much of North America.
The plants grow in large clumps, usually on limy soil, typically reaching heights of up to 3 feet (0.91 m. Its leaves are 2–3 inches long (5.1–7.6 cm), lance-shaped, and toothed. Flowers bloom from June to September, in showy pink to lavender clusters, approximately 1.5 inches long (3.8 cm), containing around 20–50 flowers. As a honey plant, wild bergamot is popular with a variety of pollinators, including bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, and moths."
— Wikipedia.
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“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.“
Eric Fromm, the art of loving. In the center of the flower if the color is yellow it is still to be pollinated.. If it’s red it has already been pollinated. This one is somewhere in between. Smile
Bee landing on a Bottlebrush like flower.
What is killing the bees ?
So far they have come up with a lot of possibilities and here are the latest ...
1. Genetically modified crops
2. Systemic insect killers. The systemic is spread on the ground, the plant takes it up with water and the whole plant is one big insect killer.