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I don't know what kind of a wasp this is; it's not as common as the annoying Yellow Jacket wasps that ruin our picnics. Much as we recoil from wasps, killing them willy-nilly means we are killing off an important pollinator.
Westen honey bee (Apis mellifera) collecting pollen from dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) flowers.
Pszczołą miodna *Apis mellifera) zbierająca pyłek z kwiatów mniszka lekarskiego (Taraxacum officinale).
One from the Spring, nothing like Spring here today though! This little bee happily pollinating the violas. HBBBT
Not sure what kind of butterfly this is but it was hard to catch. It's large so it's easy to see but it never stops flapping its wings, even when it's sitting on a flower. It's very pretty though.
I believe this is a sweat or halictid bee. She really knew which flower to pose in, to draw attention to her amazing colour!
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When you hear a bumble bee,
It may sound like a grumble bee,
But it's just a busy bee...
A busy , fuzzy , buzzing bee!
The bee is an important component of the ecosystem, and we humans, as part of the ecosystem, benefit greatly from what bees do. It would be wise for us to talk to local beekeepers, find out what we can do, patronize those are helping repopulate bee populations, to stop using chemicals in our yards that can harm the bees, and to contact bee removal experts if we feel a hive is too dangerous to remain on our property.
We all need to think a little bit more about those little guys and what we can do or stop doing to make sure they stick around. ; )
fioriscono gli ellebori di Natale e i bombi arrivano all'appuntamento
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This is a male pine tree that produces pollen on the little buds you see here. The pollen is released giving you nice yellow stuff all over your car and makes its way to the pine cones on the female pine tree. Nice for allergies!
Native fall asters are vital to those who still need nourishment late in the season.
Sachem -female- (Atalopedes huron) Anne Arundel County, Maryland
A delicate butterfly perched on a white daisy in a lush meadow, surrounded by soft green grass blades.
I had always assumed that flower pollination was just carried out by insects (which is of course is true in the UK), but hummingbirds play a major role wherever they are found in the world.
This male Green Hermit Hummingbird is sipping nectar but also collecting/transferiing pollen as he moves from bush to bush. There is quite a collection of it on his bill.
Taken in the highlands of Costa Rica.
For Macro Mondays theme 'Flowers'.
A brief opportunity of sunshine (through a dirty conservatory window) provided lovely back light to capture this flower of my Christmas cactus Schlumbergera buckleyi, allowing the light to glow through the tiny translucent body of the snail - the shell was less than 1cm across.
It is a little-known fact that snails can act as flower pollinators, transferring pollen from the anthers on the cluster of the stamens to the stigma at the end of the long style.
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph. In fact, the snail seemed to enjoy a wee snack of the pollen - as it crawled along the style, it was fascinating to watch the mouthparts gobbling up the pollen that had fallen from the anthers.
He'll be back...
Explored (Number 19) January 26, 2022 for the Explore take-over - selected from submission to 'Best Wildlife' thread from Your Best Shot 2021.
Looking close... on Friday! theme : #Bees
The flower doesn't dream of the bee,
it blossoms and the bee comes.
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The New England asters have come into full bloom this past week and the pollinators are making good use of the opportunity. The Great Spangled Fritillaries and honeybees were abundant but two species of bumblebees, the Meadow Fritillaries, Pearl Crescents, Sulpur and Cabbage white butterflies, as well as a variety of wasps and sweatbees also made a showing.
I only saw one Monarch and a single black swallowtail, but they have been fairly regular visitors this month....so at least in our immediate area they have not been a no-show this season.
Last in my random posts for now is this lotus flower with a bee preparing to do dive in for its pollination duties. Tomorrow...an altercation between our feathered friends.
Photographed sixteen years ago at what was then Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge which has since been renamed Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge.
The background in the original shot was dark but not this dark. Just enough light to be distracting. So I opted to go full black.
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.“
Eric Fromm, the art of loving. In the center of the flower if the color is yellow it is still to be pollinated.. If it’s red it has already been pollinated. This one is somewhere in between. Smile
• European honey bee / western honey bee
• Abeja doméstica / abeja europea / abeja melífera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Hymenoptera
Family:Apidae
Genus:Apis
Species:A. mellifera
Salinas, Canelones, Uruguay
Tiny Pollinator
This wasp photograph was taken with a macro lens mounted on 37.5mm extension tubes so is about twice life size
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the marmalde fly has located the myrtle bloom
(marmalade flies on a lily flower flic.kr/p/2oQ9LC1 )
the second bloom on the potted myrtle opened today.
earlier in the year this evergreen shrub was very sick and i thought i was going to lose it. it shed all it's leaves and had to be treated with great care. sun, but not too much, shade but not too much, water but in moderation ... i was just hoping it would survive! flic.kr/p/2oCJtpX
update 14th march, 2024 flic.kr/p/2pDg1Dc
marmalade hoverfly (episyrphus balteatus) scottishpollinators.wordpress.com/2020/07/09/marmalade-ho...
how to plant for wildlife on a budget | RSPB nature on your doorstep
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcbxzlVNi60&list=PL6TyuYG9Wmf...
a world without bees
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X1xIIyZw3M
for many years my garden was a shrubbery flic.kr/p/Lhv9ag which i loved. a picket fence covered in an ivy hedge coming down in a storm flic.kr/p/2gnCyih meant that over time changes had to happen flic.kr/p/2mn2x8a i'll be glad when the trellis is covered in honeysuckle and jasmine. that's the plan ...
www.flickr.com/groups/gardening_is_my_hobby/ helpful for ideas. thank you for sharing
life in my garden (plant and animal) www.flickr.com/groups/14805891@N24/ (61)