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In addition to helping stormwater runoff soak into the ground, many of the native plants at Edison High School also provide pollinator habitat.
When it comes to pollination in the middle of the Karoo (semi-desert), it is every bug for him/her self.
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The bees are busy around our Rhododendrons at the moment. As you can see this one is smothered in pollen
1/1000 sec f5.6 400mm lens
#66 -- Pollination -- 115 Pictures in 2015
Also for Studio 26's assignment on small animal / Big Frame
% of frame taken up by animal -- 5 %
Design elements:
--Bright area, drawing eye to subject
--Selective focus
--Lines converging, leading eye to subject. Wasp's wing parallel & echoing effect
--Framing of subject
--Placement of subject -- low in the frame & heading downward, in direction of leading lines
--Visual weight -- despite the current benign activity, the nature of wasps is likely to draw the eye & attention
Bees, butterflies, birds, and other pollinators are essential to our nation’s food supply and to maintaining healthy, productive wildlands.
The BLM's Plant Conservation Program recognizes managing for pollinators and other non-pollinating insects is an important aspect of protecting and managing rare plants and natural plant communities. Because plants and insects can be interdependent, many times, conservation of one species cannot happen without consideration of the other.
The BLM takes the needs of pollinators into consideration when authorizing or performing land use activities on the public lands.
Increasingly, specialist pollinators and insects are becoming the focus of BLM conservation activities and are being added to BLM special status species lists. This page contains a few of the many examples of plant-insect interactions that the BLM manages.
Photo by BLM Wyoming.
All the pollinators love the garlic Chives (Allium tuberosum) and so do I especially since the deer don't eat them! They are easy to propagate- just sprinkle the seeds where you want them. The stems are edible and can be used like chives. I'm working on establishing large clumps of them in several places on the borders.
Some close ups from the field of wildflowers along the Lake of the Woods Trail.
Cathedral Lakes Lodge, Cathedral Provincial Park, Keremeos, BC
This is just a little tease.. I have been away for 11 days and wlll return the first of next month.. Thought I would post this just for fun as a little far east tease...
Pollination is an important step in the reproduction of seed plants: the transfer of pollen grains (male gametes) to the plant carpel, the structure that contains the ovule (female gamete). The receptive part of the carpel is called a stigma in the flowers of angiosperms and a micropyle in gymnosperms. The study of pollination brings together many disciplines, such as botany, horticulture, entomology, and ecology. Pollination is important in horticulture because most plant fruits will not develop if the ovules are not fertilised
Bees travel from flower to flower, collecting nectar (later converted to honey), and in the process they pick up pollen grains. The bee collects the pollen by rubbing against the anthers. The pollen collects on the hind legs, in dense hairs referred to as a pollen basket. As the bee flies from flower to flower, the pollen grains are transferred onto the stigma of the female flower part.
Nectar provides the energy for bee nutrition; pollen provides the protein. When bees are rearing large quantities of brood (beekeepers say hives are "building"), bees will deliberately gather pollen to meet the nutritional needs of the brood. A honeybee that is deliberately gathering pollen is up to ten times more efficient as a pollinator than one that is primarily gathering nectar and only unintentionally transferring pollen.
Good pollination management seeks to have bees in a "building" state during the bloom period of the crop, thus requiring them to gather pollen, and making them more efficient pollinators. Thus the management techniques of a beekeeper providing pollination service are different from, and somewhat incompatible with, those of a beekeeper who is trying to produce honey.
(in Wikipedia)
BBG gardeners hand-pollinate Etricularia striata (striped bladderwort) in a Greenhouse Workhouse. Photo by Jeremy Weine.
Plant sex in action! ;-) The fuzzy stigma having done its job in capturing pollen grains from a visiting pollinator, now it's the pollens' turn to grow fertilization tubes down the style to find the ovules below.
This is a Geranium maculatum flower, taken with maximum magnification using the Raynox Macro lens on my PowerShot.
A mix of flowers and other plants in a pollinator plot at Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery. Photo credit: Sam Stukel/USFWS
we surveyed heathlands at Lake of Islands in Cape Breton Highlands National Park early in the 2016 field season. Our group of researchers on this trip included (left to right): Caitlin Porter, Emily Walker and Logan Gray. This picture was taken as we came off the trail and arrived back at the truck, first moment of boots -off after a week of backpacking work