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.

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Floral Emissaries

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The raising sun turns the meadow into multicolored blankets of sparkling dewdrops. One flower stretches its petals lazily; it is still too e...
Saturday, January 2, 2010

For the Love of Flowers

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Andrena, the bee, was sleeping her long slumber, comfortably inside her underground refuge, when something began to arouse her. She had been...
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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...
Monday, December 28, 2009

POLLINATORS. Robbers and thieves

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Some flowers allow only specialized pollinators. They place their nectar out of the reach of most visitors and only those with a long enough...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

DECEITFUL FLOWERS. Lady slipper

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In most cases the relationship between flowers and their pollinators is a wonderful partnership in which everybody wins; but there are excep...
Sunday, December 6, 2009

Hummingbird Moths. Where do They go in Winter?

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Not all moths fly at night; some choose to do it during the day. One of them is the hummingbird moth, so called because it looks and flies a...
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Monday, November 30, 2009

POLLINATORS IN WINTER. Fritillaries

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Where do pollinators go in winter? When all the flowers that pollinators feed on are gone and when the cold grips the land, what do the poll...
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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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