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Pollination is the transfer of pollen from a male part of a plant to a female part of a plant, later enabling fertilisation and the production of seeds, most often by an animal or by wind. Pollinating agents are animals such as insects, birds, and bats; water; wind; and even plants themselves, when self-pollination occurs within a closed flower. Pollination often occurs within a species. When pollination occurs between species it can produce hybrid offspring in nature and in plant breeding work.
A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to affect reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs. Flowers may facilitate outcrossing (fusion of sperm and eggs from different individuals in a population) resulting from cross pollination or allow selfing (fusion of sperm and egg from the same flower) when self pollination occurs. Some flowers produce diaspores without fertilization (parthenocarpy). Flowers contain sporangia and are the site where gametophytes develop. Many flowers have evolved to be attractive to animals, so as to cause them to be vectors for the transfer of pollen. After fertilization, the ovary of the flower develops into fruit containing seeds.
In addition to facilitating the reproduction of flowering plants, flowers have long been admired and used by humans to bring beauty to their environment, and also as objects of romance, ritual, religion, medicine and as a source of food.
Pollination 2010.
The first Bee 2010 on the first Crocus 2010.
Dudweiler, Saarland, Germany,
Feb 25, 2010
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I’d seen the foxgloves around the park and thought how lovely but it was only when I got closer I noticed the bees! Snap. ☀️🌳🐝🌺🌳👍
Yesterday was a sunny day! I should've been putting soil onto the exposed tunnels the animals made but couldn't resist taking some Spring Garden shots.
A bee (maybe a hoverfly or other mimic) on one bloom of the hundreds on the beautiful bush at the corner of our house - Rhododendron Castanets (a Lofthouse Hybrid!).
Bicolored Sweat Bee (Agapostemon virescens) on a Black-eyed Susan flower at the Dominion Arboretum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Pollinating — Here we see a hoverfly fly (aka - syrphid fly or flower fly) landing on a flower at a local nursery to grab a quick batch of pollen.
Although we may not think about it often, pollinators are very important both to ensuring that crop plants produce full harvests and in maintaining or increasing biodiversity. Do you enjoy a hot cup of coffee, a juicy peach, an-apple-a-day, almonds, rich and creamy dates, a handful of plump cashews, or vine-ripened -- sun-kissed, plump tomatoes? If so, you depend on pollinators. Without the assistance of native and managed pollinators, most plants cannot reproduce.
The USGS works to provide the science decision-makers need to support pollinator conservation. We are working closely with our federal, state, and other partners to model and better understand pollinator habitats and habitat requirements, and inventory native bees and other pollinators in protected areas, forests, and other land types throughout the United States. We are pioneering genetic studies of bees to better track where they’ve been and what plants they’ve visited and/or pollinated.
Learn more about pollinator research at USGS: on.doi.gov/pollinators Photo credit: Scott Horvath.
Lilac and Crepe Myrtle flowers are arranged in a branched, open display which helps pollinators notice it. These lovely crepe myrtle panicles are on display right now in my front yard.
I shot this in a wild flower garden near where live.
Assistance on insect recognition please.
I am told (see below) that this is a hoverfly (eristralis nemorum),
800asa f25(for max d o f), 640th of second.