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Look closely at the trout-lily on the left and you will notice a small insect brushing against the pollen on the anthers of the flower. As the insect moves, it transfers the pollen to the stigma thereby fertilizing the seeds that will ripen to germinate and produce another generation of trout-lilies.
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Saguaros are pollinated by bats (at night), birds and insects during the day. Gila Woodpecker (Melanerpes uropygialis) and Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) flower. Desert Botanical Garden, Arizona.
On my balcony. Bees were pollinating a flower in a big pot
Z9 (DX mode) ad. 24-200Z with close-up lens
(special for allergy season)
The Voigtlander Bessamatic and the Kodak Retina Reflex S shared the same Compur Reflex shutter with essentially the same bayonet mount; but it was deliberately made incompatible by placing a boss and cutout at different locations for the two cameras. It's a simple matter to modify the bayonet of a lens to fit both camera brands.
If your religion doesn't permit such sacrilege, the Accura teleconverter at the right was made with both cutouts so that it can fit both brands of camera body and lens, becoming a handy 2X lens adapter.
The image was gotten by cryo SEM.
Courtesy of Dr. Wann-neng Jane , Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica
Image Details
Instrument used: Quanta SEM
Magnification: 500x
Vacuum: High vacuum
Voltage: 20kV
Spot: 3.0
Working Distance: 10mm
Detector: SE
Beautiful carpenter bee on an Atlantic Camas wildflower. I love their eyes. Found out the white on the face makes it a male.
Atlantic Camas (Camassia scilloides)
Parkinsonia Horse-fly Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa tabaniformis parkinsoniae)
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Crocus flowers pollinating at Bolu Mountains between Ankara and Istanbul, with anthers full of pollens and waiting for the bees... Because we need bees as couriers of life on Earth...
Exoneura sp. on Bossiaea cordigera flower with a growing seed pod emerging from fertilised flower below.
A year ago. (never seen image.)
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Nikon D7100. Tamron 180mm Macro. 1/1000th @ f/13. ISO 1250. EV = - 2/3 (Hand held...no image stabilization.)
In angiosperms, after the pollen grain (gametophyte) has landed on the stigma, it germinates and develops a pollen tube which grows down the style until it reaches an ovary. Its two gametes travel down the tube to where the gametophyte(s) containing the female gametes are held within the carpel. After entering an ovum cell through the micropyle, one male nucleus fuses with the polar bodies to produce the endosperm tissues, while the other fuses with the ovule to produce the embryo. Hence the term: "double fertilization". This process would result in the production of a seed made of both nutritious tissues and embryo.
In gymnosperms, the ovule is not contained in a carpel, but exposed on the surface of a dedicated support organ, such as the scale of a cone, so that the penetration of carpel tissue is unnecessary. Details of the process vary according to the division of gymnosperms in question. Two main modes of fertilization are found in gymnosperms. Cycads and Ginkgo have motile sperm that swim directly to the egg inside the ovule, whereas conifers and gnetophytes have sperm that are unable to swim but are conveyed to the egg along a pollen tube.
The study of pollination spans many disciplines, such as botany, horticulture, entomology, and ecology. The pollination process as an interaction between flower and pollen vector was first addressed in the 18th century by Christian Konrad Sprengel. It is important in horticulture and agriculture, because fruiting is dependent on fertilization: the result of pollination. The study of pollination by insects is known as anthecology. There are also studies in economics that look at the positive and negative benefits of pollination, focused on bees, and how the process affects the pollinators themselves.
Small Tortoiseshell and honey Bee. Heavily cropped. The butterfly refused to oblige a decent shot before flying away to broadcast on the house wall.
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One more of this pretty little soldier fly. I liked how the geometry of the flower (Pluchea camphorata) pushes the head of the fly against the anther as it slorps up nectar.
Hedriodiscus trivittatus:
HFDF!
This area of the garden looks like the Kennedy international airport,
So many types of bees butterflies skippers and Hummingbird Moths makes me a happy camper:-)
Yesterday my grandchildren learn many butterfly names saw a Monarch Caterpillar search found and attached itself to become Chrysalis, that was the first for me as well,
I was never able to see them where they went till now, I will take photos of each step, it started with laying of the egg,