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It's been much too long since I've done a Miscellany post. With the new growth of our late spring-early summer, I plan to get back into the swing of things.
Bumblebees are one of my absolute favourite insects and you can read all about them here. wp.me/p10non-bG
Children helping plant a pollinator garden at John Heinz NWR, Philadelphia, PA.
Credit: Chuck Lafferty/USFWS
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Western Tiger Swallowtail pollinating the golden banner flower in sagebrush habitat on the Gunnison National Forest. Photo by Pam Sponhotlz/USFWS
A win win situation!!
Possibly a purple sunbird?
Bird pollination (ornithophily)
Although hummingbirds are the most familiar nectar-feeding birds for North Americans, there are analogous species in other parts of the world: sunbirds, honeyeaters, flowerpeckers, honeycreepers, bananaquits, flowerpiercers, lories and lorikeets. Hummingbirds are the oldest group, with the greatest degree of specialization on nectar. Flowers attractive to hummingbirds that can hover in front of the flower tend to be large red or orange tubes with a lot of dilute nectar, secreted during the day. Since birds do not have a strong response to scent, they tend to be odorless. Perching birds need a substantial landing platform, so sunbirds, honeyeaters, and the like are less associated with tubular flowers.
Apiary. This was one of the several hives I managed as a beekeeper in Northeast Georgia. The behavior shown by the bees is called bearding and it a way to cool the internal temperature of the hive by circulating air with their wings. This photo was submitted for the May 2023, employee photo contest: flowers and pollinators.
(USDA Forest Service photo by Erin Gerhart)
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."
— Albert Einstein
Another shot from the Fujifilm S1 Pro. Proof of the Megapixel Myth... Who needs a 24 or 46 megapixel camera when a 12 year old 3 megapixel camera can take such lovely shots? ツ ツ ツ
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Coming in for another load. Unfortunately, it is pollinating an ivasive exotic, African Rue Peganum harmala
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
The world's most renown pollinator at work.
Best viewed Large, On Black
The species name, "mellifera" has Greek roots, and means honey-carrying (in Greek, meli=honey and fero=carry) - hence "Apis mellifera" is the honey-carrying bee. The name was coined in 1758 by Carolus Linnaeus.
- Source: Wikipedia
kingdom: Animalia
phylum: Arthropoda
class: Insecta
order: Hymenoptera
suborder: Apocrita
superfamily: Apoidea
family: Apidae
subfamily: Apinae
tribe: Apini
genus: Apis
species: A. mellifera
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UPDATE: Many thanks to basilly for identifying the plant. It's a species of Sedum, a large genus of leaf succulents. My mother keeps it in a pot in her garden.
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Sleeping in a Sunflower. This is a male long-horned bee (Mellisodes species) sleeping in a sunflower (Helianthus annuus) at our Barlow Ranger District Office in Dufur, Oregon. The male bees must find safe places to sleep at night, often congregating together for warmth. This one and several others, were sleeping on the sunflowers at our office, and didn’t start moving around until the sun warmed them up in mid-morning. This photo was submitted for the May 2023, employee photo contest: flowers and pollinators.
(USDA Forest Service photo by Christina Mead)
I watched this very large queen common eastern bumblebee enjoying a thistle flower during a bumblebee survey. Wood River, Nebraska. This photo was submitted for the May 2023, employee photo contest: flowers and pollinators.
(USDA Forest Service photo by Amanda Medaries)
Pollinators in a full season cover crop field in September, when many surrounding flowering plants are done for the season. Toole County, Montana September 2014.
Passiflora 'Wilgen K. Verhoeff'
New pollination from Constance Elliott 12sep2015
26sep2015:One fruit confirmed which is now visible...
Nikon D3300
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Vanilla flower being hand pollinated. Apparently, vanilla plants require hand pollination to produce in a non-native environment. This entails splitting the flower and lifting up a little fold of flesh that separates the reproductive organs. And, this all has to happen within a couple of hours in the early morning on the day that the flower is ready.
In Spring 2021, Langara's Sustainability Student Ambassadors created new pollinator gardens on campus to attract and feed bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies that will encourage pollination. These gardens are funded in part through the World Wildlife Fund Go Wild grant.
Gretchen Sausen of the Oregon Fish & Wildlife La Grande office mans the USFWS Pollinator booth!
Photo Credit: Meghan Kearney/USFWS