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A male Monarch covered in pollen on a Milkweed flower (Asclepias curassavica). The monarch butterfly or simply monarch (Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Other common names depending on 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
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I've not seen many honey bees this summer. (Hopefully I've just not looked hard enough) So very good to see them returning on my blooming cosmos flowers.
A honeybee collecting pollen in a campanula (bell flower) flowerbed.
The photo was taken in our own garden in Landsmeer, using an M.Zuiko 40-150mm f/2.8 Pro lens and MC-14 1.4x teleconverter (@210mm).
Pollinators of all sizes are important. In Ontario there are over 400 kinds of bees. I do not know what this is. I came across an interesting site highlighting some types of bees and the importance of pollinators.
www.uoguelph.ca/oac/news/meet-ontarios-pollinators#:~:tex...
The most important thing that bees do is pollinate. Pollination is needed for plants to reproduce, and so many plants depend on bees or other insects as pollinators.
When a bee collects nectar and pollen from the flower of a plant, some pollen from the stamens sticks to the hairs of her body. When she visits the next flower, some of this pollen is rubbed off onto the stigma, or tip of the pistil. When this happens, fertilization is possible, and a fruit, carrying seeds, can develop.
Plants rely on bees and other insects to reproduce and so they have adapted, over time, to become more attractive to them. Bees are drawn to plants with open or flat tubular flowers with lots of pollen and nectar. A flower's scent can have particular appeal to bees, and its bright colours may lure the bees in.
Butterfly on a marigold.
DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
27 July 2020.
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Pink/purple coneflowers blooming in the Trailhead Community Park native plant pollinator garden, along the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
1 June 2024.
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▶ "Echinacea purpurea — commonly known as the eastern purple coneflower, purple coneflower, hedgehog coneflower, or echinacea— is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to parts of eastern North America. Its habitats include dry open woods, prairies, and barrens.
Many pollinators are attracted to E. purpurea flowers, such as bumblebees, sweat bees, honey bees, the sunflower leafcutter bee, and the mining bee, Andrena helianthiformis. Butterflies that visit include monarchs, swallowtail butterflies, and sulfur butterflies. Birds, particularly finches, eat and disperse the seeds through their droppings."
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Not sure what happened to this wasp but it was dead and next to a dandelion covered in pollen, had a little play with a 19 stack. Now it lives on forever.
A feather-legged Scoliid wasp (Dielis plumipes) cleans bits of pollen from its head as it takes a break from feeding on a blue mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum).
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For National Pollinator Week
Here’s a bumble bee from May of 2022 photobombing my shot of a Rugosa rose flower. Sadly, that delightfully scented bush succumbed to the below-zero temperatures we had a couple of nights in December 2022.
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Beautiful duskywing butterfly on one of my container flowers. I've found a lot of pollinators prefer yellow flowers.
Female Horace's Duskywing (Erynnis Horatius)
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