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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!
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.
I always called this an Amaryllis but it is actually a distinct genus, Hippeastrum. It's flowers are trumpet shaped and delicately colored. The pink-veined petals gently flare out revealing its deep, green-golden throat, its pristine white anther and long elegant white filaments which deftly hold out golden pollen-covered stamens for pollinating honey bees.
Hippeastrum "Apple Blossom"
Pronunciation: hip-ee-ASS-strum
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Abeja posada en Margarita Africana... tomada con un tubo de extensión Meike de 31mm y un flash con difusor
A #pollinator is the biotic agent (vector) that moves #pollen from the male anthers of a flower to the female stigma of a #flower to accomplish fertilization or 'syngamy' of the female gametes in the ovule of the #flower by the male gametes from the pollen grain.
... and on the far left there's a bunch of aphids. Rocket (aka Arugula) flowers are popular with a lot of insects.
Usually bees and butterflies are used to represent the creatures responsible for pollinating 75% of our crops, but as long as they have pretty blue wings some wasps will do, too. :-)
Explored July 17th 2008
Took this image of a bee pollinating a cactus blossom, if you look closely you can see the very small sphere's of pollen sticking on the bee's hairy legs, what an amazing capture of Nature's way of Pollination for future cactus blossoms.
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Lol: Gaston (aka Gasssman)
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Wasps are very important pollinators. They look like bees, but are generally not covered with fuzzy hairs. As a result, they are much less efficient in pollinating flowers, because pollen is less likely to stick to their bodies and to be moved from flower to flower.
Thank you everybody for your kind support to my amateur photography!♥
Aren't we glad bees don't mind getting a little golden dust on their bodies when they visit flowers? Imagine if they wore overalls.
Oysterville, Washington.
Bumblebee
Chicago Botanic Garden
Glencoe, IL
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Bumblebees have round bodies covered in soft hair (long branched setae) called pile, making them appear and feel fuzzy. Over 250 species of bumblebee are known.
Best viewed large so you can see the spikes on the pollen grains :)
This bee stopped on a nearby plant to clean itself -the pumpkin pollen was driving it crazy!
All Canon gear: Xti (manual mode F11, 1/200, ISO 100) + MPE-65mm macro lens. MT-24EX with home made diffusers.
I'll hoping to see a friend of mine this weekend who is a bee keeper -I want to get some images at 3x and higher.
(127/365) Smyrnium olusatrum better known as Alexanders HGGT! This plant grows in profusion here in SE Ireland, the road verges are covered in it during April & May. Now considered to be a native Irish plant, having been introduced prior to 1500 AD, it is widely naturalised, particularly near the coast. The flowers are much loved by pollinating insects.
Photo 19/100 for the 100 Flowers 2018 Group. This year I'm challenging myself to photograph 100 different wildflowers found growing in the Irish countryside as listed on www.wildflowersofireland.net