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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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â–¶ Can a fellow Flickr-er confirm or correct my ID of the blossoms as meadow garlic (Allium canadense)?
â–¶ 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.
Spring is breaking out here in Michigan, with temps in the 60s coming this week. Here is a view of pollinator life in the Shiawassee NWR.
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
I discovered an important visitor to the lovely red lilies growing in my garden. I decided to make him the star of the photograph!
Buff-tailed Bumblebee near Perito Moreno Glacier, Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina. so interesting to see flowers and forests right next to huge ice fields.
my album 2024 Patagonia--- Argentina and Chile www.flickr.com/photos/25171569@N02/albums/72177720315202727/
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Jenny Pansing photos
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.
In my attempts to develop some images around pollination and pollinators, I came across this native wildflower, which attracts a wide variety of butterfly species including Giant Swallowtail. It is a member of the larger flower family that includes Asters, and it grows in a handful of locations along the Ottawa River, in shade primarily. It flowers from July to August, and is quite spectacular.
“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.
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This yellow butterfly was caught in the act of feeding on this flower -- and transferring pollen -- in a field in New Bern, North Carolina. As challenged -- this was #ShotFromAbove for #FlickrFriday. HFF.
This looks to be a Cloudless Sulpher (Phoebis sennae) butterfly.
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I went for a second trip to the Toowoomba Flower Carnival and the bees were having a great time pollinating the flowers. I was also having a great time chasing the bees from flower to flower.
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Golden Northern Bumble Bee
Since its National Pollinator Week and yesterday I posted the Zebra Swallowtail, time to post something else to give you the creeps ;) The GNBB is one of several bumble bee species found in MO. Notice how the abdomen is almost completely yellow, as opposed to the 'normal' black we see. Also remember, bumble bees are fuzzy, carpenter bees are shiny. They are a little more weary of people being around, it took several days of chasing to finally get this one to hang around for a bit to shoot. They feed rapidly on the flowers, but you can see how this one has little bits of pollen ALL over itself, and when it goes to another flower, it drops off and thus we get more flowers. I hope to start seeing these again in another month or so when everything is really going full bore, however the flower garden right now is exploding. Almost a shame to be wasting the blooms