Bees and Butterfly Weed
by Phil Welsher
Title
Bees and Butterfly Weed
Artist
Phil Welsher
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A bit of a social climber, this bee was enjoying the blossoming Butterfly Weed. The Butterflies didn't seem to mind sharing.
In the United States, there are over 4,000 species of native bees. Familiar bees visiting garden flowers are the colorful, fuzzy, yellow-and-black striped bumblebees, metallic-green sweat bees, squash bees, and imported honeybee.
Bees are one of the few animals to actively gather large amounts of pollen (and hence inadverterly move pollen flower to flower) to feed themselves.
More than one-third of the world’s crop species depend on bee pollination. North American beekeepers continue to experience high colony losses. At the same time, the amount of crop acreage requiring bee pollination is at an all time high.
You can learn a lot more about Bees and how important they are to our food chain at: https://www.beelab.umn.edu
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April 20th, 2020
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