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“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.“
Eric Fromm, the art of loving. In the center of the flower if the color is yellow it is still to be pollinated.. If it’s red it has already been pollinated. This one is somewhere in between. Smile
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Many of our pollinators are in trouble today, their numbers declining and some threatened with extinction. You can help them by choosing garden plants that support them and particularly by refusing to use neonicotinoids and other chemical pesticides that harm them. Choose to coexist.
"Animal pollinators play a crucial role in flowering plant reproduction and in the production of most fruits and vegetables. Most plants require the assistance of pollinators to produce seeds and fruit. About 80% of all flowering plants and over three-quarters of the staple crop plants that feed humankind rely on animal pollinators.
Pollinators visit flowers in search of food, mates, shelter and nest-building materials. The energy that powers pollinator growth, metamorphosis, flight and reproduction comes from sugars in nectar, and the proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals from pollen grains.
The secret bond of the partnership is that neither plant nor pollinator populations can exist in isolation – should one disappear, the other is one generation away from disaster."
From the USDA/ Forest Service website: www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/index.shtml
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Beautiful Pollinators
Amethyst Sunbird (F)
Their curved beaks and brush-tipped tongues are perfectly adapted for sipping nectar from flowers.While nectar is their staple, they also consume small insects like termites and spiders, especially during breeding season to meet protein needs.
the marmalde fly has located the myrtle bloom
(marmalade flies on a lily flower flic.kr/p/2oQ9LC1 )
the second bloom on the potted myrtle opened today.
earlier in the year this evergreen shrub was very sick and i thought i was going to lose it. it shed all it's leaves and had to be treated with great care. sun, but not too much, shade but not too much, water but in moderation ... i was just hoping it would survive! flic.kr/p/2oCJtpX
update 14th march, 2024 flic.kr/p/2pDg1Dc
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a world without bees
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for many years my garden was a shrubbery flic.kr/p/Lhv9ag which i loved. a picket fence covered in an ivy hedge coming down in a storm flic.kr/p/2gnCyih meant that over time changes had to happen flic.kr/p/2mn2x8a i'll be glad when the trellis is covered in honeysuckle and jasmine. that's the plan ...
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Not sure what kind of butterfly this is but it was hard to catch. It's large so it's easy to see but it never stops flapping its wings, even when it's sitting on a flower. It's very pretty though.
A bumble bee and a buckeye butterfly buzz into a garden. Punchline, anyone?
Arcadia Community Garden
DeKalb County (Avondale Estates), Georgia, USA.
29 August 2022.
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I discovered an important visitor to the lovely red lilies growing in my garden. I decided to make him the star of the photograph!
The world’s food supply depends on pollinators. Birds, bats, bees, butterflies, beetles, and other beneficial insects and small mammals pollinate plants .A pollinator garden supports and protects these important creatures by providing food and shelter.
Nikon D40
Nikon 35.0 mm f/1.8
Not sure what kind of butterfly this is but it was hard to catch. It's large so it's easy to see but it never stops flapping its wings, even when it's sitting on a flower. It's very pretty though.
A gorgeous Common Buckeye with a Great Golden DIgger Wasp in the background. The Digger wasps are only interested in nectar for themselves; and katydids as their larval host. So the butterfly has nothing to fear.
" There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot."
Aldo Leopold
This beautiful garden is maintained by volunteers. Former first lady Laura Bush was in Austin this week and gave a talk encouraging people to plant milkweed and other plants to attract Monarch Butterflies. Their numbers are diminishing rapidly.
Juvenile male Ruby-throated Hummingbird and an Ant army at work on Hosta blossoms in my garden.
Common.
Celebrating National Pollinator Week with a photo of common milkweed, a beautiful but often misunderstood plant that is THE native wildflower to protect and plant in your yard if you want to give the Monarch Butterfly a big helping hand. Photographed in the La Crosse River Marsh.
We went to the Tall Grass Prairie near Pawhuska, OK and got real lucky with some butterflies. There is a pollinator garden near the visitor center and you can see bees, moths, and butterflies pollinating the flowers in a nice meadow setting. We saw a couple of different butterflies and quite a few bees on this trip. We went early in the morning and a few of the butterflies were posing very nicely for us. It was hard to choose which pictures to post on this trip. This one won out for the Fritillary pictures.
A nature conservancy purchased this land in Oklahoma to protect the shrinking tall grass prairies in the area. They also brought in buffalo to repopulate the area and they are thriving. There are over 1,500 in the area right now and are quite a sight to see when a big herd walks across the road.
May 27, 2016
Pollen:
[pol-uh n]
noun
1. the fertilizing element of flowering plants, consisting of fine, powdery, yellowish grains or spores, sometimes in masses.
verb (used with object)
2. to pollinate.
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Took a walk in the blazing heat this afternoon trying to find something for a photo of the day, and to get some exercise, I guess.
The pollen in the sunlight really caught my eye, so I did my best to capture it. I don't think I've really done it justice here, but that's just something else to add to the list to try and perfect!
Anyway, hope everyone managed to stay cool today.
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