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The spring bees are out in full force pollinating. That is a good thing!
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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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Looking close... on Friday! theme : #Bees
The flower doesn't dream of the bee,
it blossoms and the bee comes.
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I believe this is a sweat or halictid bee. She really knew which flower to pose in, to draw attention to her amazing colour!
• 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
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.
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Many of our pollinators are in trouble today, their numbers declining and some threatened with extinction. You can help them by choosing garden plants that support them and particularly by refusing to use neonicotinoids and other chemical pesticides that harm them. Choose to coexist.
"Animal pollinators play a crucial role in flowering plant reproduction and in the production of most fruits and vegetables. Most plants require the assistance of pollinators to produce seeds and fruit. About 80% of all flowering plants and over three-quarters of the staple crop plants that feed humankind rely on animal pollinators.
Pollinators visit flowers in search of food, mates, shelter and nest-building materials. The energy that powers pollinator growth, metamorphosis, flight and reproduction comes from sugars in nectar, and the proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals from pollen grains.
The secret bond of the partnership is that neither plant nor pollinator populations can exist in isolation – should one disappear, the other is one generation away from disaster."
From the USDA/ Forest Service website: www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/index.shtml
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Native fall asters are vital to those who still need nourishment late in the season.
Sachem -female- (Atalopedes huron) Anne Arundel County, Maryland
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.
Beautiful Pollinators
Amethyst Sunbird (F)
Their curved beaks and brush-tipped tongues are perfectly adapted for sipping nectar from flowers.While nectar is their staple, they also consume small insects like termites and spiders, especially during breeding season to meet protein needs.
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
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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)
Insects are vital pollinators, playing a crucial role in the reproduction of many plants, including those that produce our food. Key insect pollinators include bees (like honeybees and bumblebees), flies, wasps, beetles, butterflies, and moths. These insects transfer pollen between flowers, enabling fertilization and the production of seeds, fruits, and vegetables..
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.
" There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot."
Aldo Leopold
This beautiful garden is maintained by volunteers. Former first lady Laura Bush was in Austin this week and gave a talk encouraging people to plant milkweed and other plants to attract Monarch Butterflies. Their numbers are diminishing rapidly.