Small creatures travel from plant to plant carrying pollen on their bodies sustain our ecosystems by helping plants reproduce.

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The Yellow Swallowtail in the Pollinator Field in Beautiful Southern Maryland

View On Black

Un ape in un girasole diventa un insetto mimetico..

A bee on a gaillardia flower from my garden

Pollinators, they don't just ruin our photos, they play big part in preserving mother nature.

A little macro work in the garden - this is the inside of a large Daylily!

A big pollinator on a hibiscus flower, from my garden

a bee cautiously at work on a spiky Echinacea 😉 For a HMBT! ☀️

Seen in the botanical garden "Schloß Trauttmansdorff" in Meran.

Olympus E-M1 Mark II + Olympus 60mm F2.8 Macro @f3.5

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Not sure if this is a Carnolian or Italian Honey Bee at work on the sunflower. They are the two predomiant honey bees used in this area. View large to see pollin on the body.

A bee on an attractive zinnia flower from my garden

Crymlyn Bog Swansea.

A small bee collecting pollen from a Sneezeweed wildflower, best viewed large.

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This morning on my way to take pics of my favorite ospreys, I ran into this pollinator field. I never made it to the ospreys.

European Wasp (Vespula germanica)

Apologies for posting a Euro Wasp two days in a row but there wasn't much else around in the garden today. It was busy flying from flower to flower on the Ivy. I didn't want to get too close so this image has been cropped.

Happy Wing Wednesday!

Black-chinned Hummingbird

UBC Botanical Garden, at the University of British Columbia, was established in 1916 under the directorship of John Davidson, British Columbia's first provincial botanist. It is the oldest botanical garden at a university in Canada.

Brown Argus : Aricia agestis

Golden Hour...

This bee, most likely Leafcutting bee, Megachile sp., has a flat abdomen and it seems that it collects the pollen on the hairs of its abdomen and not in baskets as the honey bees.

TWU Butterfly Garden in Denton, North Texas

European honey bee (apis mellifera) on a parsley plant flower (herb)

Saturday Self Challenge - photographing a bee.

Spotted when I was walking Ross at Coombe Hill yesterday, there were several bees pollinating the thistles. I took several photos, this was the best one

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Common Hoverfly (Melangyna viridiceps)

With the Jade, Lavender and Daisies all in bloom I am seeing good numbers of Hoverflies this last week.

Brown Mirid Bug (Creontiades pacificus)

This one had been feasting on African Daisy pollen.

TWU Butterfly Garden, Denton, Texas

African Carder Bee (Pseudoanthidium repetitum)

It initially seemed there wasn't any insects around the garden today. So I spent some time, which is unusual for me to do, and then there seemed to be insects and spiders everywhere!

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Explore Sep. 30, 2009 #488

"If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live." - Albert Einstein

Hmmm...I wonder how true that is. Long ago..probably true. Nowadays...who knows? Yes, bugs could be pesky, but we don't realize how important some are. Like this little bumblebee, busy collecting pollen, unknowingly pollinating this female pumpkin flower. The bees and other bugs do a fantastic job pollinating every year...I even get some pretty fascinating cross-pollinated pumpkins and gourds. Only rarely is there a slow morning insect-wise that gets me to go out and hand-pollinate.

Time to go catch up! Have a wonderful Wednesday, my friends!

Pollinator

I finally got outside. it was windy during golden hour, and the pollinators were just briefly lighting. This is the result...

A busy pollinator in my neighbour's sweetpeas

Native paper daisy flower.

I understand the black and white patches on this little moth are attempting to make birds think it may be similar to a tiger moth.

Birds find eating tiger moths an unpleasant and extremely memorable experience.

Second version of the silver Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar T f/2.8 80mm lens @ f/2.8.