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More colonies of honey bees are owned and operated in California than in any other state. California usually leads the nation in honey production. The colonies in this photograph were placed in this quiet grove to pollinate the grapes just behind. There is a general lack of agreement on the relative value of pollinating insects on the cultivars of grapes known to benefit from cross-pollination. Some insist that the insects cannot be depended upon while others give major credit to the honey bees and associate their visitation with increased yield and improved quality of grapes. There is a mistaken belief that bees damage the grapes even though this claim has been disproved repeatedly for years. While it's true that honey bees do at times feed on the juice of grapes after the skin is broken, the colonies can easily be removed before the grapes are ripe.
Hymenoptera:Ichneumonidae: Ichneumon sp. on Asclepias amplexicaulis flowers. Near Millston, Jackson County Wisconsin, 3 July 2019.
Oberlin's pollinator garden lives in an open atrium in the Science Center. The garden is visited by bees, birds, and several species of insects. Professor of Biology Mary Garvin prepares the garden for this year's students.
Photo by Yvonne Gay
New Holland Honey-Eaters (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae) on inflorescence of Bull Banksia (Banksia grandis).
Honeyeaters are great pollinators of banksias. The inflorescence as seen on the photo contains hundreds and hundreds of little flowers. Each of these has male attributes for a start, with pollen at the end of a stem. However, once a bird has passed and wiped off the pollen, is takes a minute or so for the flower to change, and now the end of the stem is covered in honey dew.
The next bird, which passes - hopefully with pollen from a different plant - will then fertilise the flower. The same bird, who just brushed of that flower's pollen, is unlikely to pollinate it with pollen from its own plant, as it takes that bit of time for the flower to do the change. The restless honey-eater will have wandered on by then.
And so the probability for a new genetic combination is increased. If the flower is successfully pollinated, a winged seed will grow in a house, which becomes very hard and woody, and which is protected by a fire-proof layer.
Yet the seed will not be freed from the house until a fire has passed. The fire will kill the mother plant and at the same time be the first step in release of the seed. Many seeds of this region will not be released without strong heat. But on top of the fire/heat, only several rain falls alternating with some warmth from the sun will release the seed.
This increases the probability for
a) open, fertile soil (after a fire)
b) wet conditions (after rain)
c) survival of seed until then (embedded in hard, fire-proof capsule, only accessible for highly specialised feeders such as cockatoos).
If the plant dies for other reasons than fire, the capsule with the seed will protect the seed and keep it 'alive' for many decades. So if a fire wanders through at some stage, the seed will still be able to reproduce the mother plant long after its death.
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Near Mount Barker, Western Australia
Our 2015 pollinator garden as of mid-July. Many of the flowers that should have bit the dust by now (lupine, bachelor's buttons, etc.) are still going strong!
Georgia watermelon Honey from watermelon pollination. Watermelon pure Honey,John Pluta,Millegeville,Georgia georgiabees.blogspot.com
Pollinators help provide resources essential to the quality of life on our planet including habitat, clean air, food, soils and biodiversity. The Bureau of Land Management invites you to celebrate "Pollinators Week" (June 20 - 26, 2022) by exploring the outdoors and learning more about pollinators at: www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-commu....
Photo by: Aaron Roe, BLM Utah State Botanist | Adrienne Pilmanis, BLM Utah Ecologist
Honey bee feeding on dwarf sugar palm flowers (Anenga engleri)
The pollinators of Okinawa
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Bees are dependent on pollen as a protein source and on flower nectar or oils as an energy source. Adult females collect pollen primarily to feed their larvae. The pollen they inevitably lose in going from flower to flower is important to plants because some pollen lands on the pistils (reproductive structures) of other flowers of the same species, resulting in cross-pollination. Bees are, in fact, the most important pollinating insects, and their interdependence with plants makes them an excellent example of the type of symbiosis known as mutualism, an association between unlike organisms that is beneficial to both parties.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus Aurelius
Pollinators help provide resources essential to the quality of life on our planet including habitat, clean air, food, soils and biodiversity. The Bureau of Land Management invites you to celebrate "Pollinators Week" (June 20 - 26, 2022) by exploring the outdoors and learning more about pollinators at: www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-commu....
Photo by: Aaron Roe, BLM Utah State Botanist | Adrienne Pilmanis, BLM Utah Ecologist
Pollinators help provide resources essential to the quality of life on our planet including habitat, clean air, food, soils and biodiversity. The Bureau of Land Management invites you to celebrate "Pollinators Week" (June 20 - 26, 2022) by exploring the outdoors and learning more about pollinators at: www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-commu....
Photo by: Aaron Roe, BLM Utah State Botanist | Adrienne Pilmanis, BLM Utah Ecologist
looking after the pollinators of our garden....Aquilegia flowers freely early summer and they love it, I allow it to self seed, lots of doff colours, they adore them and so do I. I talked to a lovely lady at the RSPB stand at Emley Show yesterday and she had a small log pile and small holes drilled into the logs too. I asked what these were for, and she said that frogs hibernate over the winter in the gaps between the logs, and solitary bees ( also v impt to pollination ) will lie dorment over the winter in the holes that were drilled in the logs. Something we could all put at the bottom of our garden.
Pollinators help provide resources essential to the quality of life on our planet including habitat, clean air, food, soils and biodiversity. The Bureau of Land Management invites you to celebrate "Pollinators Week" (June 20 - 26, 2022) by exploring the outdoors and learning more about pollinators at: www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-commu....
Photo by: Aaron Roe, BLM Utah State Botanist | Adrienne Pilmanis, BLM Utah Ecologist
These two Arkansas native penstemons, cobaea on the left and murrayanus on the right, have flowers that coevolved to accommodate their pollinators, bumblebees and hummingbirds. IMAge courtesy Gerald Klingaman.
. . . OK, a quick quiz, how many of you remember how flowers trick bees and other insects into carrying pollen from flower to flower? A: they put the sugar the bees want deep inside the flower, so the bees, or in this case a gentle, giant bumblebee that really didn't mind my macro lens, have to bump up against the pollen on the ends of the long skinny stamens, and get covered in the stuff and then deliver it to the next flower! Pretty sneaky huh?
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Pollinating cones.
Photo by: Richard Sniezko
Date: June 14, 2003
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center.
Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon.
Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses disease resistance breeding programs for five-needled pines and Port-Orford-cedar, a native plant development program, and the National Tree Climbing Program. For additional photos of the DGRC program, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
23.6.2018. A Banded white tailed bumblebee (Bombus lucorum arg), with full pollen sacks, visits a flower head in Clumber Park walled garden.
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Title and poem, courtesy my dear friend Priyank. The poem is a kids discription of a butterfly, its colors and the fun they have together :)
I have just recently discovered that my mother's bedroom window is an excellent place to watch birds, butterflies as there is a mango tree very close to the window. Since I go to work a bit late, I can spend sometime there with my camera :)