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This male hatch-year black-chinned hummingbird has a lot of white pollen on his forehead. Hummingbirds are one of our greatest pollinators! He is at our Argentine Hardy Orange Gloxinia (Sinningia sellovia) in our garden.
LARGE - It is said that when/if the bees disappear from this world, so will we!
There are nearly 20,000 known species of bees in nine recognized families, though many are undescribed and the actual number is probably higher. They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants.
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Hope you're not too "Bee zzz", have a nice week-end :)
Xylocopa virginica (more commonly known as the Eastern Carpenter Bee) is a common sight in gardens across the American northeast, but just one of several members of its genus that is native to North America. Though they are often confused with bumblebees, they are easily distinguishable by their bare black abdomens and the bald spot on their thorax.
Here, an Eastern Carpenter Bee visits a zinnia, a good place for it to find pollen and nectar to eat.
Pollinators keep on bee-in'
Cause it won't be too long.
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
18 May 2020.
â–¶ A carpenter bee, busy pollinating a native yellow Lance-leaved coreopsis.
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A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts, egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. Butterflies comprise the true butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea), the skippers (superfamily Hesperioidea) and the moth-butterflies (superfamily Hedyloidea). All the many other families within the Lepidoptera are referred to as moths.
Butterflies exhibit polymorphism, mimicry and aposematism. Some, like the Monarch, will migrate over long distances. Some butterflies have evolved symbiotic and parasitic relationships with social insects such as ants. Some species are pests because in their larval stages they can damage domestic crops or trees; however, some species are agents of pollination of some plants, and caterpillars of a few butterflies (e.g., Harvesters) eat harmful insects. Culturally, butterflies are a popular motif in the visual and literary arts.
"Pollination"
A little bee pollinating during contact with the stigma, animal pollinators deposit foreign pollen from other flowers they have visited. Upon exit from the flower, the pollinators pick up new pollen from the anthers of their current flower and, thus, exchange gametes between different passionflowers. ( if you look close you can see the pollen on there backs )
"Have a Great Evening"
This tiny hoverfly (about 5mm) is visiting the anthers of a Tradescantia plant in our garden. The plant is considered a weed here, but I leave some around for the Blue-banded bees which like visiting it. The hoverfly is possibly a Eumerus species.
Heavy with pollen, a Honeybee was still hard at work early last fall with a tubular plant in the Bellevue Botanical Garden in Belleuve Washington State. Spring is here!
Guess who left her photo to the last minute? Yup, it was me.
Luckily I've been keeping flowers around the house lately as I wait for spring to really show up outside.
Comes in handy when I waste the day away and forget to pick my camera when there's still daylight.
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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I see quite a lot of people who seem to think that it is just bees and bumblebees that are any good at pollinating flowers.
In reality, any insect visiting flowers tend to pick up at least some pollen and hoverflies, like this female Eristalis (most likely an Eristalis rupium) on a common yarrow (Achillea millefolium), aren't far behind bees in this (involontarily) task.
Abeja posada en Margarita Africana... tomada con un tubo de extensión Meike de 31mm y un flash con difusor
Two California natives helping each other out, one with nectar and the other with pollination.
MLK Shoreline RP, Oakland, CA