Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Agreed. I was just commenting that between the honey bees and the bumble bees that hoverflys and smaller pollinators are pushed out of the larger and more productive sources of pollen and moved into the much smaller blossoms for their food supply. There are several large colonies of honey bees in the neighborhood so that when plants are blooming they are swarmed by the bees; several are attempting to harvest each flower. I find the smaller pollinators in the ground cover plants and other much smaller blossoms; for example that red flower I posted in the weeds post. I see smaller pollinators crawling up into them. On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:17 AM RicCarter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > this hoverfly is also a valuable pollinator > > ric > > > > > On Jan 15, 2021, at 9:18 AM, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > > > Such a little bee. Our honey bee population is quite healthy so small > bees > > like this get pushed out of the larger blooms. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory at gmail.com