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This project was a bit more involved than originally anticapted. Hopefully the bees and wasp like our handywork and take up residence
It was a really hot and sunny day today, but suddenly started raining. So I took the D300 out and tried to shoot some waterdrops and flowers without a flash to see if the sunny day would provide enough light. These pictures are the result of that test.
Bumble just had to roll around in the flower to help with pollination - she hasnt quite sussed that they are cut flowers, not proper live ones!
Pollinators help provide resources essential to the quality of life on our planet including habitat, clean air, food, soils and biodiversity. The Bureau of Land Management invites you to celebrate "Pollinators Week" (June 20 - 26, 2022) by exploring the outdoors and learning more about pollinators at: www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-commu....
We just spotted the Bureau of Land Management’s Seymour Antelope looking at native thistles in Utah for Pollinator Week!
“Native thistles produce a lot of nectar and pollen, so they are very popular with all types of pollinators!” - Seymour Antelope
Seymour encourages you to appreciate Utah’s native thistles, even though they often receive an undeserved bad reputation due to negative impacts caused by other non-native species sharing the same common name. Utah public lands support 19 species of native thistle! Native thistle produces copious amounts of nectar that supports a wide range of native pollinators including bumble bees, solitary bees, butterflies and moths.
Photo by: Aaron Roe, BLM Utah State Botanist | Adrienne Pilmanis, BLM Utah Ecologist
Testing whether koa can be cross-pollinated in controlled conditions in the koa common garden. Hamakua, Hawaii Island, Hawaii.
These bees were working hard behind Mokko's cabins. This was a big yellow flower the size of my head almost and I zoomed in with my tele/macro lens to catch them snatching some gold nuggets heh :)
The sky was clear, providing a nice bright light onto the wildflowers, which provide a great burst of colour. A number of bumble-bees were amongst the flowers, and I attempted to take a series of photos to capture the bees against a background of colour. My telephoto lens has macro capabilities with a focal point someway away from the lens, making it ideal for sitautions such as this, especially as I was prevented from getting in among the flowers.
Unfortunately none of the shots quite got the picture I wanted, mainly due to issues of composition and a narrow focal plane. In hindsight, given the great light levels, I could have done with using a smaller aperature.
However, I still like the mix of colours in this series, and have selected the photo which represents this the best. Others are better at showing the anatomy of the bee, such as the pouches on the hind legs, however none of them manage to achieve this to a full extent.
Its amazing to see these bees work. They have a very vital role in the pollination process.
**if anyone knows the names of these bees ... it looks a somewhat like a honeybee but its much smaller in size I dont think its a flower fly since they are diff. **
Info :
Pollination is the process by which pollen is transferred in plants, thereby enabling fertilisation and sexual reproduction.
Pollinator is the agent that moves the pollen, whether it be bees, flies, bats, moths, or birds; a pollenizer is the plant that serves as the pollen source for other plants
- wikipedia
Day 283 ~ Pollinating
Sunday, October 9th, 2016
I positioned myself so that the pollinating bee would be captured in the bauble of bokeh in the background. So pretty!
Pollinators help provide resources essential to the quality of life on our planet including habitat, clean air, food, soils and biodiversity. The Bureau of Land Management invites you to celebrate "Pollinators Week" (June 20 - 26, 2022) by exploring the outdoors and learning more about pollinators at: www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-commu....
Photo by: Aaron Roe, BLM Utah State Botanist | Adrienne Pilmanis, BLM Utah Ecologist
Crop price information is subject to many drivers, many not linked to pollination. Nonetheless, for many farmers it may be most relevant to show that pollinator-friendly practices have price impacts, due to increases in quality, quantity or timing of production. There is some indication that higher levels of pollination services may help to produce fruit earlier in the season, when prices are higher. Also, in a blind panel test in Australia, people significantly preferred bee pollinated tomatoes over hand-pollinated ones, finding them to have a greater depth of flavor (Hoogendorn et al. 2010).
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