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Honey Bee collecting some Easter pollen.
There is nothing like standing under a tree fully bloomed in cherry blossoms with hundreds of bees buzzing around.
Important pollinator in the Upper Sonoran Desert region. My silly dog loves to bulldoze her way through the grass: Nose down, rump up, chest to the mud. This pollen coated, sneezing beast is the net result.
Taken with a nikon point and shoot just before dusk.It was actually much lighter out than the picture leads you to believe.Photo was only re sized,no other modifications were made.
This picture of a bee on a flower was taken in Julia’s backyard. The bee is the pollinator because he is the agent that moves pollen from the male anthers of the flower to the female stigma of another flower to accomplish fertilization.
Collecting the pollen from Solanum chacoense, a wild relative of the potato, at Embrapa Clima Temperado. This pollen will be used to pollinate other individuals to produce seeds. Credit: Oriole Wagstaff
Our Farm Room honeycomb in 2011 highlighted nature's wide range of pollinators, from bees to bats to butterflies. Our annual Sweet 16 Honey-Tasting Tournament gives visitors a chance to vote on their favorite honey from a field of 16 varietal honeys brought in from around the world. The 2011 champ was a wild huckleberry honey from the Pacific Northwest.
Cross pollination in Primrose (Primula vulgaris) - the series shows both ‘pin eyed’ and 'thrum eyed' forms of the flower and illustrate the mechanism that ensures cross pollination.
Primula vulgaris (Primrose) has two forms of flower, a situation known as heteromorphy. In the two forms, the styles are of different lengths. If the style reaches to the top of the flower tube, it is the 'pin eyed' form, and the anthers are halfway down the tube. In the other form (known as 'thrum eyed'), the style is halfway down the tube and the anthers reach to the top. Heteromorphy is one example of a mechanism that encourages self-pollination.
When an insect inserts its proboscis into the flower, pollen is deposited in the right place for the style of the other form of the flower - so pollen from a pin eyed flower reaches the stigma of a thrum eyed flower, and vice versa. The stigma of a thrum eyed flower has short papillae whereas the stigma of a pin eyed flower has long papillae.
Pollen grains from a pin eyed flower are small and more likely to stick to the short papillae on the stigma of a thrum eyed flower (than to the longer papillae of a pin eyed flower). The converse occurs with the large pollen grains from a thrum eyed flower.
Even if self-pollination does occur, it rarely leads to fertilisation so that heteromorphy in these plants appears to be associated with self-incompatibility.
This image shows a pin eyed Primrose flower - longitudinal section
The flower is approximately 30 mm across and 30 mm tall.
Image by John Bebbington FRPS
Some flowers can suffer from the problem of nectar robbing. These two images of the flowers of common comfrey (Symphytum officinale) illustrate this.
This image shows a flower of common comfrey being visited - and pollinated - by a long tongued carder bee (probably Bombus pascuorum, the common carder bee).
The previous image shows a short tongued early bumblebee (Bombus pratorum) visiting a flower of common comfrey. The bumblebee worker has pierced the flower tube at the top and is robbing the nectar. Its proboscis will not come into contact with the stamens and so pollination will not take place.
A bee doing his thing on a sunflower in the garden at Wild Flour Bread bakery in Freestone, California. Check them out, such good bread.
Canon Ae-1, 50mm f/1.8 lens.
Fujifilm Superia x-tra 800.
Diodonopsis (Masdevallia) erinacea. Rchb.f 1877.
This plant have been pollinated in my vivaria. If you look carefully you can see a fruit fly sp that is trapped.
Have several seed capsules now!
A minature sp that grows in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador at altitudes of about 700 to 1400 meters.
This is the Costa Rica clone.
An Anna's Hummingbird covered in pollen as it feeds on a salvia in a Santa Cruz Mountains garden.
Santa Cruz, California
April 2017
Flower porn... this is what I do in my freetime...
Probably wondering how I got the shot. It's a dead bee!
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