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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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°=° Cologne, rural Area. Small Industry building surrounded by Nature. Image manipulated in my traditional way, with Textures, Blur and Watercolors. Back to my Roots.
June 2018
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.
I'm guessing (emphasis on "guessing") that these are mining bees. Most of the other wild geraniums in this bunch had bees inside them also. Photographed in Perrot State Park, Wisconsin.
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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▶ Can a fellow Flickr-er confirm or correct my ID of the blossoms as meadow garlic (Allium canadense)?
▶ Be that as it may, a thank you to Plantaholic Sheila for identifying the buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia)! (See the comment section below.)
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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.
I discovered an important visitor to the lovely red lilies growing in my garden. I decided to make him the star of the photograph!
“Pollination is the transfer of pollen grains, the male sex cells of a flower, from the anther where they are produced to the receptive surface, or stigma, of the female organ of a flower. Since the honey bee is the most important insect that transfers pollen between flowers and between plants, the word ‘pollination’ is often used to describe the service of providing bees to pollinate crop plants.” See www.aces.uiuc.edu/vista/html_pubs/BEEKEEP/CHAPT8/chapt8.html
“Honey bees—wild and domestic—perform about 80 percent of all pollination worldwide. A single bee colony can pollinate 300 million flowers each day. Grains are primarily pollinated by the wind, but fruits, nuts and vegetables are pollinated by bees. Seventy out of the top 100 human food crops—which supply about 90 percent of the world’s nutrition—are pollinated by bees.” See www.greenpeace.org/usa/sustainable-agriculture/save-the-b...
No matter what strange plant-like life may be found on exotic, far-flung alien locales, Earth's bees find a way to adapt, and pollinate those flowers too.
More photos in the album.
A brown-belted bumblebee (Bombus griseocollis) was harvesting on butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) in Owen Conservation Park on July 8, 2023 when a western honey bee (Apis mellifera) flew by. Madison, Wisconsin, USA
“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
Bee landing on a Bottlebrush like flower.
What is killing the bees ?
So far they have come up with a lot of possibilities and here are the latest ...
1. Genetically modified crops
2. Systemic insect killers. The systemic is spread on the ground, the plant takes it up with water and the whole plant is one big insect killer.