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Note the yellow, bulky pollen basket attached to a hind leg, similar to that of the numerous honeybees on the same bush. (This girl's mommy is going to insist on giving her a bath when she gets home!)
Late-blooming native thistles provide a bountiful buffet for pollinators when other plants are senescing at the end of the growing season.
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail -dark female- (Pterourus glaucus syn. Papilio glaucus) Charles County, Maryland pictured with a Honeybee on Field Thistle (Cirsium discolor).
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There are over 20,000 known species of bee globally. Around 270 species of bee have been recorded in the UK.
Bees are perfectly adapted to pollinate, helping plants grow, breed and produce food. They do so by transferring pollen between flowering plants and therefore keeping the cycle of life turning.
The vast majority of plants we need for food rely on pollination, especially by bees: from almonds and vanilla to apples and squash. Bees also pollinate around 80% of wild flowers in Europe, so our countryside would be far less interesting and beautiful without them.
But bees are in trouble. There's growing public and political concern at bee decline across the world. This decline is caused by a combination of stresses – from loss of habitat and food sources to exposure to pesticides and the effects of climate breakdown.
friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/why-do-we-need-bees
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At the Penn State Arboretum they have a pollinator's garden and part of that are so really interesting wood pieces for bees. The shapes and textures are so luscious. Hope you have a wonderful Friday!
Cross pollination is when one plant pollinates a plant of another variety. The two plants' genetic material combines and the resulting seeds from that pollination will have characteristics of both varieties and is a new variety. Sometimes cross pollinating is used intentionally in the garden to create new varieties. I wonder how this will turn out. All I know is, both are sweating a lot 😂
Just received my new lens and I have nothing to test, so these are my test subjects .
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These bees really asked for it. There was a huge bush full of them, two days ago already (when I somehow didn't find the time to shoot them), and today again.
I chose this one from the series because it's sharp where it should be, and because it's the only one where you see the sucker of the bee.
#066/115 ("Pollination") for the 115 pictures in 2015 challenge.
A skipper on a lantana - Backyard Botanical Garden
Phoenix, Arizona
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Scientific name: Senna alata
Family: Fabaceae
Synonym: Cassia alata
Common name: Ringworm Bush, Seven Golden Candlesticks, Candle Bush
Photo @ Pasir Ris Park, Singapore