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Juvenile male Ruby-throated Hummingbird and an Ant army at work on Hosta blossoms in my garden.
Common.
" 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.
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.
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.
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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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Insects are vital pollinators, playing a crucial role in the reproduction of many plants, including those that produce our food. Key insect pollinators include bees (like honeybees and bumblebees), flies, wasps, beetles, butterflies, and moths. These insects transfer pollen between flowers, enabling fertilization and the production of seeds, fruits, and vegetables..
A Brazilian Skipper on elephant ear leaf
Photographed at the gardens of Flat Rock, NC, USA
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Didn't have to go far, this is from my little prairie planting. Don't know what they are, but I think they're having fun.
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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I bought this bee balm plant recently, and put it in a plant bag, with some fresh potting soil. I hope it doesn't develop a fungus, which always happens with my bee balm plants. This bee has lots of blossoms to visit, and I hope to see a hummingbird soon.
Went to visit the rare Lizard orchids (of which there are many this year) at one of their few sites, and noticed this characterful beetle that appeared to be a pollinator; no doubt drawn by the plant's heady goat-like aroma
From Bees, to Hummingbirds and Bats. We Can’t Live Without Pollinators. It is an essential ecological survival function. Without pollinators, the human race and all of earth’s terrestrial ecosystems would not survive. Of the 1,400 crop plants grown around the world, i.e., those that produce all of our food and plant-based industrial products, almost 80% require pollination by animals.
“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...