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While helping with counting the numbers of this Threatened population of Stylidium, I managed to capture photos of one of it's pollinators. An Aleucosia sp bee fly is being hit on the side of the thorax by the short column (or trigger) of the flower. Pollen Is visible on the side of the fly. It visits many flowers, sharing the pollen between.
Photos: Jean
Black tailed Bumblebee (Bombus melanopygus) on a Green Gentian (Frasera speciosa) flower, working the nectaries located in pockets on the corner of the petals. Green gentian grows for 20-40 years prior to its only flowering event, when it sends up a stock with numerous flowers. Green gentian grows from grasslands at 3000 feet to alpine tundra around 12,000 feet.
Niwot Ridge, Colorado
Can't identify the butterfly or the flower, really need to squat up on things like this, anybody know what either is?? Identified by Mary thanks. its a orange tip female on a cuckoo flower.
Taken at Cothay manor near Greenham in somerset, it's a wonderful and beautiful place only 7 or so miles from my place, will certainly be revisiting later on in the summer to see it in full bloom.
Pollinated bushpea flower (possibly Pultenaea cinerascens). I have watched native bees (mostly Lasioglossum sp.) straddle the wings with their legs and spread them apart, allowing the pollen presenters to pop forward from the keel as seen here. [Pilliga Nature Reserve, NSW.]
Tulip pollen is dusted onto bees as they move around the flower and easily transferred between flowers.
Pollen from a flower on my Peace Lily has dusted the leaves...time for a wipe down.
52 in 2019 #35 Dusty
The actual name of this is ‘ The Obedience Plant’….. “ Physostegia virginiana, the obedient plant, obedience or false dragonhead, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to North America, where it is distributed from eastern Canada to northern Mexico. Wikipedia”.
This female Blue-banded Bee was shaking pollen from a Solanum flower in our garden. It came out quickly in a long stream which you can see disappearing into the background.
Here's an interesting article about BBBs and their pollination technique: www.abc.net.au/news/science/2015-12-15/australian-blue-ba...
Apis mellifera, European honey bee, on Asclepias syriaca, common milkweed.
Note the orange-colored pollen in the loaded pollen basket, or corbicula, on the tibia of the bee's hind leg.
Do you also see the Tapinoma sessile, odorous house ant, in this photo?
This photo was pure luck; a strong breeze was blowing the milkweed all over the place.