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Honey bee on Jerusalem artichoke bloom
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Honeybee on White Allium
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Bumblebee on White Coneflower
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Blooming in my garden: White Coneflower Echinacea
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Re-post: Pollen buffet
11 04 2011Originally posted July, 2008
Two bees (or maybe one bee and a flower fly, perhaps?) vying for pollen on one small sunflower. See the fella on the right? Look at how thick the pollen is on his body and legs!
UPDATE: This morning I received an informative comment below from a biologist in Argentina. (Visit his/her blog at http://polinizador.wordpress.com/) Thanks for the identification—I learn something new every day!
Nice photo. The one on the right is a female bee. The males don’t carry pollen on their back legs; in the world of bees the females do all the work. The one on the left is a flower fly, Eristalis; it is a male. You can tell because of its huge eyes.
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Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
6 08 2010Lobelia cardinalis is a perennial herbaceous plant often found in wet places such as stream banks and swamps. This Virginia native wildflower blooms in August and is pollinated by hummingbirds. Photographed at Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, Virginia
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Magenta!
2 08 2010Does anyone else find it difficult to maintain detail in flowers that are in the pink-red spectrum? This was photographed under a bright, but overcast sky.
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