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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.
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.
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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. ; )
Pruinose squash bee
Up to 80% of insects co-evolved with plants. This bee only pollinates flowers in the squash/gourd family. Since we had so much rain this year, they are finally able to emerge and pollinate the flowers.
Juvenile male Ruby-throated Hummingbird and an Ant army at work on Hosta blossoms in my garden.
Common.
The world’s food supply depends on pollinators. Birds, bats, bees, butterflies, beetles, and other beneficial insects and small mammals pollinate plants .A pollinator garden supports and protects these important creatures by providing food and shelter.
Nikon D40
Nikon 35.0 mm f/1.8
I'm guessing (emphasis on "guessing") that these are mining bees. Most of the other wild geraniums in this bunch had bees inside them also. Photographed in Perrot State Park, Wisconsin.
A bumble bee and a buckeye butterfly buzz into a garden. Punchline, anyone?
Arcadia Community Garden
DeKalb County (Avondale Estates), Georgia, USA.
29 August 2022.
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A gorgeous Common Buckeye with a Great Golden DIgger Wasp in the background. The Digger wasps are only interested in nectar for themselves; and katydids as their larval host. So the butterfly has nothing to fear.
Went to visit the rare Lizard orchids (of which there are many this year) at one of their few sites, and noticed this characterful beetle that appeared to be a pollinator; no doubt drawn by the plant's heady goat-like aroma