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Pollinator Planets. Two hanging baskets tied together. Filled with Bits of Ben's fur, twigs, hose pipe, ivy, old bark, fluff from the tumble drier, small branches and moss. I am really pleased with it. The old bird box adds the character
"Point is, what's so wonderful is that every one of these flowers has a specific relationship with the insect that pollinates it. There's a certain orchid look exactly like a certain insect so the insect is drawn to this flower, its double, its soul mate, and wants nothing more than to make love to it. And after the insect flies off, spots another soul-mate flower and makes love to it, thus pollinating it. And neither the flower nor the insect will ever understand the significance of their lovemaking. I mean, how could they know that because of their little dance the world lives? But it does. By simply doing what they're designed to do, something large and magnificent happens. In this sense they show us how to live - how the only barometer you have is your heart. How, when you spot your flower, you can't let anything get in your way. "
~John Laroche
On Hieracium aurantiacum, a most worthy weed
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A whimsy piece about allergies. I had them terribly yesterday.
What is pollen? Plant sex! I decided to illustrate it. In human form. As Nirvana/Kurt Cobain wrote: "nature is a whore". ;)
All I had with me was my phone camera so I am pleased with the outcome! This neighborhood zinnia garden is a real gem for pollinators.
Here in Australia, European honey bees can be seen foraging on the flowers of many different native and introduced plant species. Here we see one working hard on native Eremophila nivea.
Australia's European colonisers introduced these honey bees to ensure a good supply of honey. They are now wild throughout most of our southern States. Honey bees do play an important role as pollinators of crops and wild flowers, but some wild flowers have suffered from their presence as these flowers can only be pollinated by our native bees. Some native bees use a special pollination technique required by certain flowers called buzz pollination. European honey bees do not use this technique and remove pollen without pollinating the flowers.
15 mm body length
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I've come across several of these mini-gardens in Toronto parks planted for the bees. What a great idea. And there were lots of bees!
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The pollinator.
July 24, 2017, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.
Not sure what type of bee this is but it was gathering pollen on a purple cone flower.
I hoped this wasp would sit longer on this dandilion, but I only got two shots before it flew off. I think it's a wasp.
Maybe a Sonoran Bumble bee
In addition to honeybees, bumblebees are also dying. Over the past 10 to 15 years, four species of bumble bees have been found to suffer alarming population declines of up to 96 percent. I don't know which species this one is or if it impacted but its important to our crops and flowers.
The salvia blossoms are too small for her to get into so here she is just about to pierce it at the base of the blossom and get the pool of nectar there. Robbing the plant of nectar without collecting pollen from inside.
Female American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus)
Bath House Pollinator Garden
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This is a shot of the jumping spider Evarcha arcuata just before taking off into my lens. The pollen grains come from running around inside the flower of a Digitalis purpurea.
The shot above is taken with a reversed 50mm on a 100mm macro lens.
This is ecology in action. It looks like this beetle is working as a pollinator for this beautiful flower.
I would love help identifying both the plant and the beetle.