Caught the bee doing what it does accompanied by the little fly on these lovely yellow wildflowers!

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Pollinators in Hadley, MA.

Credit: Megan Nagel/USFWS

White tailed Bumblebee entering a Foxglove flower

Local Heroes - Your Hardworking Pollinators

www.nacdnet.org/education/resources/local-heroes

USFWS partner walks through a pollinator seeding completed the previous year. PC USFWS/Clint Wirick

These bees are cool. Have it been a wasp i would say otherwise.

In Blanket Flower SNA.

Honey bee gathering pollen from a sunflower in a cover crop mix trial at the Bridger Plant Materials Center. Bridger, MT. August 2017.

Sometimes it's difficult to know whether the bahavior of an animal towards a flower may lead or not to its pollination. In the photo: a wasp landed on a sempreviva flower in Serra do Cipó, Brazil.

Honey bee gathering pollen from a sunflower in a cover crop mix trial at the Bridger Plant Materials Center. Bridger, MT. August 2017.

Fox Tail Barley blowing in the wind. Found in a pollinator plot near Elkhart Iowa.

Minolta 75-300mm/f4.5-5.6 D Lens

Madison, Wisconsin

This is a larger version of Gopu's original cross pollination chart re-centered and sized to fit SmallWorlds mural widgets better :)

My first go at using my raynox dcr-250 and probably the closest i'll get to a butterfly lol :-)

Friday morning walk around Austin, TX.

The wee pollinator was no bigger than perhaps a 1/4 inch on the rosebud.

Canon EOS RP handhled with an EF to RP adapter and a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lens and processed in Lightroom Classic.

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A female Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) nectars on Ground Ivy (Glechoma Hederacea) at Skylarks Nature Reserve near Nottingham. The butterfly's head and thorax fur are interacting with the flower's reproductive parts but I don't know if they are female or hermaphrite.

bee pollinating my zucchini plants

A dragonfly on Goldpetal Farms in Chaptico, Md., July 17, 2021.

USDA/FPAC Photo by Preston Keres

Pollination

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Te Aroha, New Zealand

Quick visit to the Pisgah National Forest in Transylvania County near Brevard, North Carolina.

Last year, a friend posted some images of this wonderful wildflower from a nearby location, and I managed to find it growing in the forest. On this visit, I noticed a swarm of beautifully iridescent Halicted bees feverishly pollinating this wildflower species. The color on these tiny bees is remarkable, and I was pleased to be able to capture some of them at work.

To read the trip report, please go to Jim's Blog.

Wellington, New Zealand

Bees come in all shapes and sizes and so do flowers. This bumble bee can reach far into a salvia flower to grab the pollen.

Photo by Mara Koenig/USFWS

Smithsonian Gardens

Bumble bees are adapted to pollinator a diverse amount of plants. They are active through the fall. You can help by providing late blooming plants in your garden.

Photo by Mara Koenig/USFWS

A Fistful of pollen !!

I was out watching the bees today, and unlike last year(s), every bee I saw was fully loaded with pollen. A good sigh indeed !!!

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bees are natural pollinators whose fuzzy bodies and carries pollen on their body