I think this is a Hoverfly -- Melanostoma scalare. At Tilden Park's Regional Botanic Garden. Taken on a lunch hour walk.

Shot handheld with my FZ50 (Panasonic superzoom) and Raynox DCR-250 snap-on macro lens.

Blog post: 59 Minutes With the Raynox

Golden Gardens Park, Seattle.

Trying to create hybrid peppers in our garden.

Pollination is the process by which pollen is transferred in the reproduction of plants, thereby enabling fertilization and reproduction.

Bumble bee on Lonicera Fragrantissima

NATIVE POLLINATORS

Did you know that you can thank pollinators for one out of every three bites of food you eat?

You probably didn't know. In which case you probably aren't thinking much about how your daily life affects the health of those pollinators — that wide array of beneficial species responsible for some of the most crucial links in the whole world's food chain.

So hear this: Pollinators may be our planet's most ecologically and economically important group of animals. They provide stability for every terrestrial ecosystem in the world, because wild flowering plants depend on these native bees, flies, butterflies, beetles, moths, bats, birds and other animals to reproduce. Other wildlife then eat the fruits and seeds that result from pollination, spreading the seeds that in turn give rise to future generations of plants. Most of the world's other wildlife (including insects) — and more than 250,000 wild flowering plants — need native pollinators to exist.

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Echinacea makes me think of a sunset with its beautiful color gradients.

A honeybee gathers pollen from a Texas Bluebonnet.

Big Sur, CA

Bee Pollination of Lupine flower.

Pollination cages for geneflow control. (photo: IITA genebank)

Tipsy Bee's getting down to beesiness.

A bit of morning Pollination

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Belle Isle - Richmond, Virginia

Bumble bee on daisy in Silver Bow Co. October 2014.

A carpenter bee buzzes around a tree in Hampton, Virginia on Jun 30, 2020. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Virginia Sea Grant)

Researcher pollinating banana inflorescence in the field. Photo by IITA. (file name: MISC_851). ONLY low res file available.

Pollinators in Hadley, MA.

Credit: Megan Nagel/USFWS

Bee and flower, Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire, UK, August 2013

He deposits seeds from a male palm tree in with the female seeds at the top of another date palm.

Pollinator Garden, Northeast Regional Office, Hadley, MA.

Credit: Samantha Derrick/USFWS

Taken with a Canon 60mm USm Macro lens. Type L for a better view.

pollinators on cutleaf coneflower

Photo by Yvonne Gay

Dr Helen Roy (centre), scientific coordinator of the first National Farm Pollinator Survey. Pictured at College Farm, Duxford, Cambs.

Photo credit: Barnaby Smith / Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Pollinators in Hadley, MA.

Credit: Megan Nagel/USFWS

Heavily disguised Pollinator on a Sunflower. 19th July 2015. My back garden

Wild Bee Pollination

Te Puna Quarry Park

Replaced with crop and color corrected 4-19-2006.

Found a bunch of bees pollinating Orange Jubilee flowers while walking the dog.

Clover grew the best in a pollinator lawn. Photo by Carolyn Breece.

This bee (caught in flight) had so much pollen on its eyes that it seemed to have problems when trying to land on the flowers.

Taken with a Nikon D300 and an AF Nikkor 70-210mm 1:4-5.6 zoom lens. This image is best viewed against a dark background (press the "L" key to enter the Flickr light box).

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A Bicolored Agapostemon Sweat Bee in a marigold flower. Photo by Soil Conservationist Blake Roetman