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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
One of the last few trips up on the Grimsby escarpment before all the leaves are off the trees and the ground is frosted over. It was nice to see there was some wildlife still out at this time of year. A lot of bees to my surprise and I even caught a garter snake just off the path. I must say the escarpment is one of my favourite places during autumn.
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.
Photo by Yvonne Gay
If my work ethic had been like that of the bee, my savings account would be a lot bigger. One has to admire the tenacity as well as the beauty of these marvels of God's creation.
A Western Dappled White Butterfly (Euchloe Crameri)
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i was pleased to see a lot of bees around after all the reports of bee populations being decimated, with out pollination the whole food chain would break down. if it stops press pause and let the grey bar move up, a second play will be smoother
Housefly cross-pollinating flowers...so far without a macro lens..just the kit lens
Explore ranking #292 on Thursday, June 7, 2007. I offer my sincere thanks to all you who have made this possible because of your kind comments, appreciation and Favorite markings.
Wythe Bland Master Gardener Club work on the design plan for the pollinator garden at New River Trail State Park- AA
A recent visit to a dragon fruit farm near Sepang, Selangor, was most educational. Pollination is done manually by human hands with a brush at night when the flowers bloom then. By daytime, the flowers start to close.
The farmers then wrap the flowers with newspapers to keep out the rain.
Biologist with Missouri River Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office collects butterflies during a pollinator survey (2016).
Photo: USFWS
Conversion of natural forests, meadows, and streambanks to agricultural monocultures, pavement, and concrete-lined ditches has dramatically reduced the abundance and diversity of flowering plants on our landscape, which has resulted in disappearance of many pollinator insects. The plants need the pollinators, of course, to move pollen among flowers, but the pollinators need the plants, too. We can help native pollinators by planting flowering plants around our homes and along roadsides.
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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. Before entering the space, students slip on bee suits and head gear.
Photo by Yvonne Gay
Working with our Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, the Oneida Nation restored this prairie habitat.
Photo by Mara Koenig/USFWS
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
Took a day off from street performing to enjoy my day with my girl and our family. Caught this bee running around on it
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