Pollinators photos on Flickr

About half of all plant species require help with pollination. The humble bee is nature’s most efficient pollinator and on call throughout the flowering season.

Pollinators on the don valley trail by Eddie Smith

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Pollinating by cheesekid

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pollination by Johnson Cameraface

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Sheffield Botanical Gardens

Pollination by Keepsake Snapshots

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Spings glow begins to show,As pollen starts falling like snow and the garden beds overflow.

Pollinating Fall mums by Larry Lief

In front of Pack Maynard Realty, Kennebunk

Pollination by Bill Bleakley

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One last shot of the lily before all was lost.

Early Morning Pollinator Walk by Bill Dunbar

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An early morning walk around a Pollinator plot near Elkhart Iowa

Pollinator (top right...) by Will Atkins

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the local lizard orchid (Himantoglossum hircinum) is in all its glory now and attracting many small black bees - Hylaeus sp, hopefully pollinating it and producing a load more lizard orchids in a few years' time!

pollination by Tony

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Osmia bakeri, face, maricopa, ca by USGS Bee Lab

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Osmia bakeri - The Yosemite specimens were collected for a project done by Lauren Ponisio - Study led by L. Ponisio examining the effect of fire diversity on bees (Ponisio et al. Global Change Biol. 2016).

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All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.

Photography Information:

Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200

We Are Made One with What We Touch and See

We are resolved into the supreme air,

We are made one with what we touch and see,

With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,

With our young lives each spring impassioned tree

Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range

The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.

- Oscar Wilde

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Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:

Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:

www.extreme-macro.co.uk/

Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:

bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf

Basic USGSBIML set up:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY

USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4

Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus

www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections

PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:

ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf

Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:

plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo

or

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU

Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:

www.photomacrography.net/

Contact information:

Sam Droege

sdroege@usgs.gov

301 497 5840

Pollinators by Roamer61

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Swallowtail Butterfly and a bumble bee enjoying a midday meal of nectar from these cone flowers.

Pollinators Beware by Roy Lowry

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A crab spider waiting for any unwary insects landing on this chicory flower. Photographed at Glyfada, Athens.

Beetle pollinating Yarrow blossoms by Herbert Harper

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The Pollinators by Jacky Parker

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Pollinator 3 by Lance King

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Chased some pollinators around this afternoon at the Knoxville Botanical Garden.

Pollination by Chris Coleman, OLY

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Pollinate by K. Lebar

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Nikon D300

Micro Nikkor 55mm f/2.8 Ais

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Helicon

Pollinator at Work! by David Illig

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Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, New England Aster, and Xylocopa virginica, Carpenter Bee

Strobist: Canon Twin Lite Macro Flash

pollinate by fred sugar

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Pollinators by Erin

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at the Arboretum

Pollinate by Marco Galleni

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Pollination by Olga~

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Pollinator Week Recap by Flickr

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Last week we celebrated pollinators for the important work they do to sustain the food supply on this planet along with so many other important jobs they perform day in and day out.

We put a call out for pollinator pics in Flickr Social and the photos rolled in. Enjoy this collection of pollinators brought to you by the Flickr Social group!

View the gallery here!

Photo credit: Kaska Ppp

Pollinator by Geoff Smith

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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ

[ Pollinate ] by Pat Focal

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Macro Shot with Flash

Pollination by Barbara am Ende

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Pollinating bee by Susan

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Legacy Park, Malibu

Probably the only reason these flowers are blooming in this severe drought is that some of the landscape at this park is watered by the city. Otherwise, it is very stark and bleak in our local Santa Monica mountains and the prognosis for this year is not good. We have had less than 1 inch of rain this year and that is half of last year's record low rainfall. The same pressure system that is freezing the center and east coast of the U.S. is keeping the west coast balmy but very dry.

Pollination by Images by Leah

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P1070686 by Parallel_Intersekt

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Pollinated Honeybee #2 by Richie

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Photobombed by a plantbug too (bot right corner).

Thought I'd try a pink background just for something different :P

Dieunomia nevadensis, f, face, A.A Co, MD_2019-03-23-14.39.37 ZS PMax UDR by USGS Bee Lab

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Why rare bees are attracted to me? A question that doesn't really keep me up at night, but...here consider this Dieunomia nevadensis. (Nice orange legs there, lady Di). This bee is known from one site in Maryland. So it is rare. It also has not been found in the surrounding states...so this population would appear to be very special. You have to go to North Carolina to find a record. Interesting in a Bermuda Triangle sort of way is the fact that this site is only a couple of miles from my house. How cool is that? This particular specimen collected by Tim McMahon, but the very first one (and there was only one) I found at a sand mine at the same spot. This has happened repeatedly, I am seemingly surrounded by rare bees that are attracted from long distances away to be near me. Or, perhaps it is not so much my beeaura but the fact that there are so few people really looking for bees? How are bees really doing then? Don't ask me I have beeaura issues. Photo by Brooke Goggins.