Hoverfly Pollinator, Syrphidae, Diptera captured in Cedar Falls, Iowa

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A fly covered in pollen.

This tiny hoverfly (about 5mm) is visiting the anthers of a Tradescantia plant in our garden. The plant is considered a weed here, but I leave some around for the Blue-banded bees which like visiting it. The hoverfly is possibly a Eumerus species.

Growing Lantana in the garden is a great way to add color and interest. Simply choose a sunny location and plant them in well-drained soil. These colorful flowers are pollinator friendly!

Summer in the garden

It's only April, but it's 30 degrees and very little precipitation.

Pollination

Honey bee in wetlands wild flower

NPS / Ashton Hooker

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We are always pleased to see bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, etc. visiting our plants

I see quite a lot of people who seem to think that it is just bees and bumblebees that are any good at pollinating flowers.

In reality, any insect visiting flowers tend to pick up at least some pollen and hoverflies, like this female Eristalis (most likely an Eristalis rupium) on a common yarrow (Achillea millefolium), aren't far behind bees in this (involontarily) task.

Cusworth hall grounds

Abeja posada en Margarita Africana... tomada con un tubo de extensión Meike de 31mm y un flash con difusor

Captured with my iPhone 8 and the "Black Eye"-macro-lens.

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Powerful partnership between flowers and pollinators

Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Pollinator

You’d think there would be plenty of room for both buzzlebees on this giant sunflower head!

Photo of a bee pollinating a dandelion in action captured via Minolta Maxxum AF Macro 50mm F/2.8 Lens. In the unincorporated community of Wellpinit. Spokane Indian Reservation. Selkirk Mountains Range. Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and Foothills section within the Northern Rockies Region. Inland Northwest. Stevens County, Washington. Early May 2023.

Exposure Time: 1/800 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-400 * Aperture: F/5.6 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 4150 K

Usually bees and butterflies are used to represent the creatures responsible for pollinating 75% of our crops, but as long as they have pretty blue wings some wasps will do, too. :-)

A little pollinator hard at work on the Reeve's Spiraea flowers.

Explored July 17th 2008

Took this image of a bee pollinating a cactus blossom, if you look closely you can see the very small sphere's of pollen sticking on the bee's hairy legs, what an amazing capture of Nature's way of Pollination for future cactus blossoms.

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Lol: Gaston (aka Gasssman)

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Wasps are very important pollinators. They look like bees, but are generally not covered with fuzzy hairs. As a result, they are much less efficient in pollinating flowers, because pollen is less likely to stick to their bodies and to be moved from flower to flower.

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Light on the path

20.7.2023.

The Echinacea getting plenty of attention in the garden.

Taken on the Carrizo Plain

A little difficult to see, this is a morh I found on the Carrizo Plain. ID anyone?

Agapanthus Unzipped

Bumblebee

Chicago Botanic Garden

Glencoe, IL

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Bumblebees have round bodies covered in soft hair (long branched setae) called pile, making them appear and feel fuzzy. Over 250 species of bumblebee are known.

pollination

Sony DSC HX20v

Dutch flora

Best viewed large so you can see the spikes on the pollen grains :)

This bee stopped on a nearby plant to clean itself -the pumpkin pollen was driving it crazy!

All Canon gear: Xti (manual mode F11, 1/200, ISO 100) + MPE-65mm macro lens. MT-24EX with home made diffusers.

I'll hoping to see a friend of mine this weekend who is a bee keeper -I want to get some images at 3x and higher.

Pollinators

Hope all is good with you wonderful folks out there. ;0)

Pollinating