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There are over 20,000 known species of bee globally. Around 270 species of bee have been recorded in the UK.
Bees are perfectly adapted to pollinate, helping plants grow, breed and produce food. They do so by transferring pollen between flowering plants and therefore keeping the cycle of life turning.
The vast majority of plants we need for food rely on pollination, especially by bees: from almonds and vanilla to apples and squash. Bees also pollinate around 80% of wild flowers in Europe, so our countryside would be far less interesting and beautiful without them.
But bees are in trouble. There's growing public and political concern at bee decline across the world. This decline is caused by a combination of stresses – from loss of habitat and food sources to exposure to pesticides and the effects of climate breakdown.
friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/why-do-we-need-bees
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I followed this bumblebee around the Bathhouse pollinator garden at White Rock lake. She was hitting all the salvia blossoms both the pink ones and the red ones.
Female American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus)
Bath House Pollinator Garden
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Cross pollination is when one plant pollinates a plant of another variety. The two plants' genetic material combines and the resulting seeds from that pollination will have characteristics of both varieties and is a new variety. Sometimes cross pollinating is used intentionally in the garden to create new varieties. I wonder how this will turn out. All I know is, both are sweating a lot 😂
Just received my new lens and I have nothing to test, so these are my test subjects .
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The only butterflies in the Cottonwood Park pollinator garden were skippers, like this fiery skipper on a butterfly bush.
Male Fiery Skipper (Hylephila phyleus)
Magenta Butterfly Bush (Buddleja davidii)
Cottonwood Park, Richardson
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These bees really asked for it. There was a huge bush full of them, two days ago already (when I somehow didn't find the time to shoot them), and today again.
I chose this one from the series because it's sharp where it should be, and because it's the only one where you see the sucker of the bee.
#066/115 ("Pollination") for the 115 pictures in 2015 challenge.
Scientific name: Senna alata
Family: Fabaceae
Synonym: Cassia alata
Common name: Ringworm Bush, Seven Golden Candlesticks, Candle Bush
Photo @ Pasir Ris Park, Singapore
The tell-tale signs of a "pollinated hummer" were obvious !! This Allen's Hummer was taking a rest at the Los Angeles County Arboretum after a recent "pollination" !!
Today after so many dreary days we had sunshine. And suddenly I could see the crocus growing wild beneath the trees on the green. On closer inspection the first pollinator I have seen in 2018. Spring will come!!
The wee pollinator could barely be seen on the Vipers Bugloss.
Canon EOS RP with an EF to RP adapter and a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lens and processed in Lightroom Classic.
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The Essex Skipper (Thymelicus lineola) is a small, warm-coloured skipper butterfly that thrives in sunny grassland habitats. It is most commonly found in unimproved and lightly managed meadows, roadside verges, field margins, coastal grasslands and rough pasture where fine grasses grow in abundance. The caterpillars feed on a range of grasses, particularly cock's-foot, while adults nectar on flowers such as thistles, knapweeds and ragwort during their flight period from late June to August. Although easily overlooked because of its resemblance to the Small Skipper, the Essex Skipper can be identified by the distinctive black underside of its clubbed antennae.
The Essex Skipper is distributed across much of central and southern Europe, extending eastwards into western Asia. In Britain, it was first recognised as a separate species only in 1889, having previously been confused with the Small Skipper. Today it is widespread across southern and eastern England, extending north through the Midlands and into parts of northern England, with a continuing gradual expansion of its range. It remains scarce or absent in Scotland, Wales and much of south-west England. Britain is home to the nominate subspecies, Thymelicus lineola lineola, which is the only subspecies recorded in the UK. The species has benefited from warmer summers and suitable grassland management, allowing populations to increase and spread into new areas.
It's wonderful every morning to see the bees doing their round of the flowers in my garden, pollinating as they go. here's their hive, I wonder, I want my share of the honey.
Watching and photographing bees pollinating flowers is a practice in mindfulness...the bee is doing nothing other than the task at hand, and while photographing these fast moving, stinging creatures I have to let go of everything else and only be present for what is in front of me and my lens, and what is immediately around me.
Ardenwood Farm, Fremont, CA, April 2023
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