Pollinators

Flowers have maintained a partnership with insect pollinators from the beginning. They are masters at attracting these love messengers and perpetuating the species through pollination. They use countless ways to accomplish this goal.

Showing posts with label life cycle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life cycle. Show all posts
Friday, January 1, 2010

The pure magnificent green bee

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A female Augochlora pura gathering pollen on her leg baskets Among the many metallic green bees that you see in the summer there is a p...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

Bees in the Garden

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A bee house for mason bees. These bees are solitary, meaning that each one tends to her own brood, about six to eight babies, and all each ...
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Saturday, September 26, 2009

The Life of a Flower

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© Beatriz Moisset Let us take a simple flower, the simplest you can think of, the one you drew when in Kindergarten. A yellow circle ...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

THE WEB OF LIFE. The Bear, the Waxwing and the Bee

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You may be wondering what bears, waxwings and bees have in common. We'll get to that later. Let us start with a black bear, the formidab...
Sunday, August 30, 2009

Metallic green bee, a good pollinator

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The pure golden green bee, Augochlora pura , is a singular bee, smaller than a honey bee and looking like a shiny metallic little robot bee....
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We are all part of the web of life. Animals need plants and plants need animals and ultimately we all need each other in a very intricate and complex web of interactions. A biologist from Argentina, resident of the United States for many years. Author of: "Bee Basics, An Introduction to Our Native Bees" by Beatriz Moisset, Ph.D and Stephen Buchmann, Ph.D. All photos and content are copyrighted. Please, contact me if you want to use or purchase something.
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