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the flower´s name, ixia, comes from the Greek..meaning bird lime...a reference to it´s sweet sap..a favorite of pollinators
People mindlessly hate wasps because of their sting, but they do have an important role in the environment.
I agree that constraints help spur creativity. Today I ended up playing with a bunch of different subjects but came back to work on my bees. Again working close up with the 36mm extension tube on my 100mm macro lens. There was a bit of sunlight I was able to coax onto this large pumpkin blossom. The bees in this blossom were in like a drunken stupor and didn't move like the others I encountered. They were less inclined to move much which made it easier to work. I love the hairy details of the blossom and the balls of pollen on the bees legs.
Thanks for visiting, hope you aren't getting bored or grossed out by all of the bees. I'm a big fan of bees but not wasps, yellow jackets, earwigs, spiders, flies, or mice. Oh, and update on the mice, we did catch one in a trap. Feeling a bit better about life but just wish all the pests would stay outside and I wouldn't have to be bothered with them.
Focusing on the extended tips of a protea flower led my overactive imagination to see them as tiny fingers ready to tap on someone's shoulder.
Only later did I learn that a feature of the protea flower's pollination is that pollen is deposited on the modified tip of the style (called a pollen presenter).
"The flower usually remains closed until a visiting bird, mammal or insect brushes against the flower. It is then that the pollen presenters snap open to brush against the animal.
If no visitors arrive, flowers may open during the heat of day (or late afternoon in mouse-pollinated species). Pollen falls off the pollen presenter after a few hours of exposure to air."
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A gray hairstreak (Strymodon melinus) nectaring on a green milkweed (Asclepias viridis) nestled among bluebonnets and paintbrushes.
Last image for Pollinator week. It may not really be the smallest pollinator but you can see pollen clumps on its one antenna and legs. This Lesser meadow katydid (Conocephalus spp.) is posed near the end of a calla lily petal and is perhaps 3/16" (5 mm) long, while its antennae are easily 3-4 times as long. Somehow I find it comical that its two antennae are pointed in opposite directions. If you are keeping track, my 90 mm macro lens came back good as ever. Whew.