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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
The bees are very active in my back yard visiting these flower clusters. Months later they turn into berries that the birds feed on.
This is not my normal subject mater, but the main purpose of the photo shoot was to have a shakedown on my new lens - Nikkor 200/500 f/4.
Post: Luminar 3 and Lightroom 5. Image was cropped to a 5X4 ratio.
There is a beauty flickring around, pollinating the budding beauties, stimulating growth with sweetness. Many open up and welcome her while she reveals her beautiful wings.
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The Hammer orchid (Drakaea glyptodon) attracts its wasp pollinator through sexual mimicry. The lure is a dangling mock-up of a female wasp, complete with the pheromones that make her attractive to male wasps. Gripping the lure, the male wasp attempts to fly off with it, swings into contact with the flower's reproductive parts and pollination takes place.
Black Carpenter Bee on Firebush.
The Carpenter Bee is what is called a 'Buzz pollinator.' Below is from www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the...
When Carpenter bees land on flower blossoms, they become living tuning forks. Using their powerful thoracic muscles, carpenter bees sonicate the dry pollen grains out of the flower’s anthers. This type of pollen gathering is called “buzz pollination.” Carpenter bees are excellent pollinators of eggplant, tomato and other vegetables and flowers.
This metallic green bee (Xylocopa sp.) gets covered in pollen when it arrives at this Gompholobium latifolium flower. There's lots of pollen attached to the bee's abdomen already!
I feel the need to replace our native Chickasaw plum tree, it recently died of old age. These small trees grow quickly but have a relatively short life. In early spring it is covered with small, white, fragrant flowers much to the delight of pollinators and nectarivores. It served the landscape well during its life.
Bees play an important role in pollinating flowering plants, and are the major type of pollinator in ecosystems that contain flowering plants. Bees either focus on gathering nectar or on gathering pollen depending on demand, especially in social species. Bees gathering nectar may accomplish pollination, but bees that are deliberately gathering pollen are more efficient pollinators. It is estimated that one third of the human food supply depends on insect pollination, most of which is accomplished by bees, especially the domesticated European honey bee. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee
A Teddy Bear Bee visiting Solanum wendlandii flowers which is a flowering climber from Central America. European bees don't visit these flowers. They do not release pollen unless they are vibrated. These native bees do that well.
This unique art installation, conceived by architects Joyce Hwang and Nerea Feliz, offers habitat for insect pollinators. Photo by Liz Ligon.
Malabrigo Yarn knitting pattern - part of the Pollination Collection ebook: Conestoga Bonnet, Honey Orchard Shawl, Plum Creek Mitts, and Tree Rings Socks. Modeled by Lee Meredith. Photography by Vivian Aubrey.
Bee! One of my first days out and probably one of my best shots. Canon 7d w/55-250mm I surprised myself with this shot!
The white pollen on the stamen is visible. Pollinators are general, mostly bees but also flies, butterflies and moths.
Still not much around in the way of insects - at least not once I get home from work in the evening - but this fella was busy doing his bit as a pussy willow pollinator!
===General information=== Box elder is a species of maple that belongs to the soapberry family. It originates from North America, but it can be found in Europe, China and Australia today. Box elder prefers moist areas and it usually grows in the wastelands, valleys, floodplains and areas near the rivers and streams. It tolerates cold weather, drought and floods and it easily spreads in the urban areas. People cultivate box elder mostly for ornamental purposes. Box elder has a short trunk and bushy crown. It can reach 50 to 75 feet in height and 4 feet in diameter (trunk). Young box elder is covered with light brown, smooth bark. A Mature tree has dark brown bark covered with deep ridges and furrows. Box elder easily splits during storms because of its thin bark that cannot provide protection of soft, inner wood. Box elder has smooth, purple or shiny green twigs. They are covered with a protective layer of wax and oval-shaped openings that facilitate exchange of gases with the atmosphere. Box elder has pinnate leaves composed of 3 to 7, oval or elliptic leaflets with irregularly notched edges. Leaves are green, darker on the upper side. Box elder is the only species of maple that has compound leaves (other species of maple have palmate leaves). Box elder produces small, yellow-green flowers. Male and female flowers develop on the separate trees (dioecious plant). Male flowers are arranged in small, hairy bundles. Female flowers are arranged in narrow, drooping clusters. Box elder blooms early in the spring, usually during the April. The flowers are designed for the pollination by wind. The fruit of box elder is yellowish or reddish-brown samara organised in V-shaped pairs. Each fruit consists of a seed and wing which facilitates dispersal by wind. Box elder ripens from August to October. Fruit stays on the tree throughout the winter. Box elder serves as an important source of food for the wildlife. Birds and squirrels like to eat the seed of box elder. Native Americans used sap of box elder for the manufacture of edible syrup (type of maple syrup). Native Americans also the used wood of box elder for the manufacture of musical instruments (flutes and drums), prayer sticks and bowls. Charcoal made of wood of box elder was used for the painting of the bodies during various rituals. Soft wood of box elder is not commercially valuable today. It is mostly used for the manufacture of boxes, barrels, interior finishing, cheap furniture and woodenware. Box elder can be used to stabilise the soil and prevent erosion of river banks. Native Americans used the bark of box elder as emetic (substance that induces vomiting), for the purification of the body. Box elder can survive from 75 to 100 years in the wild. Although native to North America, it is considered an invasive species in some areas of that continent. It can quickly colonise both cultivated and uncultivated areas and the range is therefore expanding both in North America and elsewhere. In Europe where it was introduced in 1688 as a park tree it is able to spread quickly in places and is considered an invasive species in parts of Central Europe (Germany and the Czech Republic, middle Danube, Vistula river valley in Poland) where it can form mass growth in lowlands, disturbed areas and riparian biomes on calcareous soils. It has also become naturalised in eastern China and can be found in some of the cooler areas of the Australian continent where it is listed as a pest invasive species. This species prefers bright sunlight. It often grows on flood plains and other disturbed areas with ample water supply, such as riparian habitats. Human influence has greatly favoured this species; it grows around houses and in hedges, as well as on disturbed ground and vacant lots. Several birds and some squirrels feed on the seeds. The evening grosbeak uses them extensively. The Maple Bug (also known as the Boxelder Bug) lays its eggs on all maples, but prefers this species. The rosy maple moth (Dryocampa rubicunda) also lays its eggs on the leaves of maple trees, including the boxelder maple, so when the larvae hatch, they feed on the leaves, which in very dense populations can cause defoliation. ===Other common names=== ashleaf maple ash-leaved maple boxelder maple maple ash ===*Useful websites=== ift.tt/2Jy2YXP ift.tt/2KjZnxB ift.tt/2JwjhEt ift.tt/2KhPosx ift.tt/2Ju1OfM ift.tt/2KjZoBF ===Scientific classification=== Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Angiosperms Clade: Eudicots Clade: Rosids Order: Sapindales Family: Sapindaceae Genus: Acer Species: A. negundo *Information sourced from the above websites