Uphill - _TNY_7996
There seems to be a prevailing perception that wasps don't pollinate and in fact the only proper pollinators are bees.
This is of course completely wrong. Bees don't pollinate as a purpose, it's something that happen as a bonus while they are collecting pollen because of how hairy they are - as are many other insects.
"But wasps aren't hairy" is another idea which doesn't hold water. Oh yeah? Zoom in on this one and tell me it is hairless.
This is an unusually light-coloured saxon wasp (Dolichovespula saxonica) working its way up the large inflorescence of a purple angelica (Angellica gigas), a flower which the social wasps seem particularily interested in.
Uphill - _TNY_7996
There seems to be a prevailing perception that wasps don't pollinate and in fact the only proper pollinators are bees.
This is of course completely wrong. Bees don't pollinate as a purpose, it's something that happen as a bonus while they are collecting pollen because of how hairy they are - as are many other insects.
"But wasps aren't hairy" is another idea which doesn't hold water. Oh yeah? Zoom in on this one and tell me it is hairless.
This is an unusually light-coloured saxon wasp (Dolichovespula saxonica) working its way up the large inflorescence of a purple angelica (Angellica gigas), a flower which the social wasps seem particularily interested in.