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Gretchen Sausen of the Oregon Fish & Wildlife La Grande office mans the USFWS Pollinator booth!
Photo Credit: Meghan Kearney/USFWS
Nikkor 60mm Micro on a Nikon D7100.Shot during a time where a great deal of hoverflys were pollinated the flowers around my house. I wanted to get a decent top down shot of one of these without disturbing the creature. This was a handheld shot as I am not a fan of monopods or tripods.
This is a bee taken from meijer's toy section. I chose a bee because it helps carry pollen to other flowers
This is a great example of mutualism, in which two species benefit from an association. The bee pictured in this photo is the common eastern Bumblebee; Bombus impatiens. This picture was taken right outside of Friday Hall near the greenhouse, on the UNCW campus on Monday June 6th, 2016. This picture shows the Bumblebee accessing a major resource, vital to its existence; nectar. While it obtains the nectar, the flowers benefit by being cross pollinated by the Bumblebee. This is an expensive tradeoff for the flower. Producing nectar, and attractive, colorful flowers for the bee are of no nutritional value to the plant, but this is an important sacrifice to make since it allows it to reproduce. These Bumblebees also possess an important coloration that warns potential predators to stay away. This is called apoematism. In order for this function to work, predators must have a previous unpleasant experience associated with the color patterns. I for one, have been stung by similarly colored wasps and definitely learned that being stung by organisms with this coloration does not feel particularly great. Even though I had to get close to capture this picture, I maintained a fair distance from these bees!
"Common Eastern Bumblebee." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 06 June 2016. .
Smith, Robert Leo. "Parasitism and Mutualism." Elements of Ecology. By Thomas M. Smith. 8th ed. Glenview: Pearson Education, 2012. 311-12. Print.
Smith, Robert Leo. "Predation." Elements of Ecology. By Thomas M. Smith. 8th ed. Glenview: Pearson Education, 2012. 286-87. Print.
Flowers where the pollinator party was happening! Twin Lakes on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, MT, August 21, 2022. This photo was submitted for the May 2023, employee photo contest: flowers and pollinators.
(USDA Forest Service Photo by Susan B. Adams)
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Large, aviary style coop w/ a green roof. Seattle Tilth 3-bin composter to compost the chicken manure & bedding.
Seattle Tilth's Chicken Coop & Urban Farm Tour
Designed to attract bees, butterflies and other pollinators, this small haven was erected by Gardens Ontario.
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Sierra Pericopid Moth. Muddy Guard, Bighorn National Forest. This photo was submitted for the May 2023, employee photo contest: flowers and pollinators.
(USDA Forest Service photo by Joleen Roberts)
One of the neighbors is all-in for the pollinators. I'm also letting my little patch go back to prairie but I'm too shy to put up a sign.
Busy bee doing his job on a lovely flower
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I found this beautiful monarch butterfly cocoon ready to break free any day. Wood River, Nebraska. This photo was submitted for the May 2023, employee photo contest: flowers and pollinators.
(USDA Forest Service photo by Amanda Medaries)
I'm continuing to experiment with this broken Focal 135mm Prime lens and my Pentax K-r via a genuine Pentax M42 adapter. Yesterday I took the back of the lens apart and removed the last 2 remaining shutter blades. When I reassembled the back of the lens, I didn't reinstall the elements of the aperature ring, just the ring since there are no longer any blades, I figured what's the point. I'm shooting RAW, ISO 100, the lens is wide open Æ’-2.8. I'm manually focusing and the camera is doing the rest, including 1/100 of a second shutter speed.
Bee on cotoneaster flowers. These flowers get pollinated and become red berries. My visiting thrush eats them, plus blackbirds.
Taken with my Sony R-1 fixed lens camera.
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The pollinator garden at McConnell Air Force Base. SCA interns Montanna Hayes and Theresa Wolff worked hard in the hot sun to catch up on maintenance of these gardens and make them beautiful again.
Photo: Mike Jungen/USFWS