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Seen in Scottsdale, Arizona, at Butterfly Wonderland, which granted free admission to veterans on November 11, 2014. Thanks, Butterfly Wonderland!
I was trying to ignore the Viceroy today but when I spotted him ducking into a secluded spot I had to take a look. Sure enough I had discovered the Viceroys' rendezvous site. When she spotted me she closed her wings out of shyness and I got this shot. Actually I am not sure which one is the female but I suspect it is the upper one because it is the largest.
There are two groups of bats that visit and pollinate flowers.
In the New World (the Americas) flower-visiting bats belong to the suborder microchiroptera, which navigate using echolocation.
In the Old World (Africa, Asia, Australia), flower-visiting bats belong to the suborder megachiroptera, which navigate using their well-developed eyesight and sense of smell. Many flowers pollinated by bats in these regions are of the brush-flower type, for example members of the Myrtaceae (including Eucalypts) and Proteaceae.
Flying foxes (also known as 'fruit bats') make a valuable contribution to ecosystems in parts of Australia, both as pollinators and in helping to disperse seeds of fruits. The Grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) is found along some coastal regions of eastern Australia, mainly in forests but they also extend their activities into commercial fruit orchards and urban gardens. They live in ‘camps’, roosting high in the trees. They fly from their roosts at dusk on foraging trips to their food source.
They feed on nectar, pollen and fruit from native Australian trees, depending on availability. Food sources include Eucaplypts and Moreton Bay figs. They carry dustings of pollen in their fur from tree to tree, thus helping with cross-pollination and also disperse seeds, in their droppings, from fruits they have eaten.
Australia’s unpredictable climate and the mostly low soil nutrient levels result in unpredictable flowering in Eucalypt forests, so the availability of nectar can vary considerably, with some species flowering well only every 3 to 4 years. Different species also flower at different times of year.
These Grey-headed flying foxes have adapted to this unreliable food source by being nomadic and travelling long distances in search of nectar and fruit. This makes them particularly important in fruit and seed dispersal and in pollinating isolated groups of trees, the remnants of former Eucalypt forests.
These bats also raid commercial fruit crops and are seen by some as a pest, but they are protected by law.
Image by Erica Larkcom
Just like bees or butterflies, mosquitoes transfer pollen from flower to flower as they feed on nectar, fertilizing plants and allowing them to form seeds and reproduce. Unfortunately, they also feed on human blood.
One of South Africa's more common ground orchids, Satyrium longicauda with its pollinator; a Noctuid moth. The yellow bits on the moth's head are orchid pollen packets or pollinia.
June 28, 2009
Atlanta Botanical Garden
Before I pciked up the EF 100mm macro.
EF 50mm f/1.8 with 12mm Kenko extension tube.
Many pollinators can live in small green spaces, like this monarch caterpillar. Planting milkweed and native pollinator plants will help monarchs and other wildlife.
Photo by Mara Koenig/USFWS.
On a saturday morning as I was watering my garden I realized that one of the plant which bears yellow flowers was visited by a small fly like insect every now and then. Looking closely I found that this fly was smeared with yellow pollen from the flowers which it was frequently visiting. In no time I got my sigma 150mm macro lens and mounted my camera on a tripod.
Camera : Nikon D40
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 150 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: +1/3 EV
Exposure Program: Aperture Priority
Tripod mounted
More photos at my blog: Pollinator
Pollinator Garden, Northeast Regional Office, Hadley, MA.
A Queen Anne's lace flower in the pollinator garden outside the Regional Office building in Hadley, MA.
Credit: Samantha Derrick/USFWS
Athens, GA (Clarke County) Copyright 2010 D. Nelson
That's pine pollen on her lips and inside her nose. Tough times for a pointer that basically lives through the nose.
Fly at Fort Benjamin Harrison Park in Lawrence, IN. I think it is a fruit fly hiding underneath the syrphid fly.
Buzzing the High Country. San Juan Mountains of Colorado, summertime high country wildflowers attracts fat and happy bees. This photo was submitted for the May 2023, employee photo contest: flowers and pollinators.
(USDA Forest Service photo by Lindsey Hansen)
My best insect macro shot to date. Check out the flecks of pollen on the fly's body, and the compound eyes.
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