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This photo was taken in my garden in my back yard. It was taken during the summer of 2017. In this picture, it is showing a bee pollinating. Pollination is when pollen is moved from plant to plant or in this case flower to flower. Animals such as birds, bees, butterflies all take a part in pollination. Transfering pollen from flower to flower can help in the fertilization of the flowers.
Photo credit: Alyssa Granillo
June 18th in the Double Walled Garden - or Pollinator Park - at the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
June 18th in the Double Walled Garden - or Pollinator Park - at the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
someone called this owl's clover, but what I like about it is that it's perfectly structured for its pollinators: ants don't much care for showy flowers, but they do like structure they can crawl over, so there you go. Structure but not much flower. Done.
Students learned how hummingbirds and various insects support our ecosystem with their cross-pollination.
"Bees are not only working for our welfare, they are also perfect indicators of the state of the environment. We should take note."
"It is not a sudden problem, I has been happening for a few years now. Five years ago in Germany there were a million hives, now there are less than 800,000. If that continues there will eventually be no bees."
~German bee expert Professor Joergen Tautz from Wurzburg University
Pollination is a beautiful thing. The honey bee pollinates the flower. The plant in turn provides food for deer, turkey, and livestock. Bobwhite quail eat the seeds. The flowers attract birds, bees and other insects. And we enjoy the beauty.
Sensitive Briar (Mimosa nuttallii)
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
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1. Y7 Day 93, Mist in the valley, 2. Y7 Day 98, Pollinator, 3. Y7 Day 93, Seeing inside, 4. Y7 Day 98, Mint; going to seed, 5. Y7 Day 97, The moon and stars, 6. Y7 Day 101, All aglow, 7. Y7 Day 112, Seeing inside a cauliflower, 8. Y7 Day 106, Clouds and ranges, 9. Y7 Day 106, Cottonwool clouds, 10. Y7 Day 114, Autumn is almost here
Thanks to the team at BigHugeLabs for making this bit easy :-}
I did try to do it the complicated way, and make my own in Pixlr like Nigel showed us; but Pixlr and flickr don't seem to speak the same language, and the code wouldn't work. grrrr :-{
and oops, I've stepped outside the square ;-}
June 18th in the Double Walled Garden - or Pollinator Park - at the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
Jen has some strawberry vines out in the garden and I was out looking for something to shoot and post today I spotted the ants were working on the flower and thought they would make a fine addition to my photo post for today. Looks like Jen is going to have a good harvest this year.
Female Lasloglossum bee (Parasphecodes) with pollinia on Eriochilus helonomos Swamp bunny orchid Windy Harbour Rd Northcliffe WA near Lookout Rock
Saw these 'bugs' seemingly pollinating a flower as I walked down the street
Further research suggests they are Trigona carbonaria .. an Australian native stingless bee
The ol' apartment on Ravine Way in Arnold, Md., with the local-ecotype, native-species-only pollinator garden I built out front (beneath the non-functioning lamp).
These pollinator images were taken at the Penn State Master Gardener Pollinator Garden at Ag Progress Days, Rock Springs, PA.
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Students learned how hummingbirds and various insects support our ecosystem with their cross-pollination.
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, "Pollination", 1998, gelatin silver print with mixed media, 26" x 47". Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc. Image courtesy of the artists.
The two pictures above were taken at Mount Auburn Cemetery of two unidentified flowers and their evolutionary companions.
Perhaps the most important parts of plant species survival is the ability to reproduce. In the case of plants the transfer of genetic material is passed through what is known as pollen which is a sticky grainy substance residing on the stamen of flowering plants. The transfer of pollen from one plant to another can fall under one of two categories, biotic or abiotic. The less common of the two is abiotic and occurs in only about 10% of flowering plants; in this case the pollen is not transferred using another organism as a mediatory. Abiotic pollination is caused by wind 98% of the time and by water 2% of the time. The more common way flowering plants pollinate is biotical, through the use of other organisms.
The images above are an example of biotic pollination where the insects are collecting nectar from the plant and at the same time causing pollen to stick to their bodies. As each insect moves to another flower it will shed some of its previously acquired pollen as well as collect some new.
Sources: Class notes and Wikipedia.