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"Pollination"
A little bee pollinating during contact with the stigma, animal pollinators deposit foreign pollen from other flowers they have visited. Upon exit from the flower, the pollinators pick up new pollen from the anthers of their current flower and, thus, exchange gametes between different passionflowers. ( if you look close you can see the pollen on there backs )
"Have a Great Evening"
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.
Heavy with pollen, a Honeybee was still hard at work early last fall with a tubular plant in the Bellevue Botanical Garden in Belleuve Washington State. Spring is here!
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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.
Abeja posada en Margarita Africana... tomada con un tubo de extensión Meike de 31mm y un flash con difusor
A #pollinator is the biotic agent (vector) that moves #pollen from the male anthers of a flower to the female stigma of a #flower to accomplish fertilization or 'syngamy' of the female gametes in the ovule of the #flower by the male gametes from the pollen grain.
Captured with my iPhone 8 and the "Black Eye"-macro-lens.
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no clue what this little guy is ... not sure if it is a hover fly or a sweat bee ??? but he looked good
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. :-)
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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[...] Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination [...]
-- Quote by Bryant H. McGill
Rome, Italy (March, 2008)
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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