A Fathers' Day field trip to Prange Island compliments of Joe Carroll (Class of Fall 1998) began with a look at an invasive pest plant, Beach naupaka (Scaevola taccada), being pollinated by a European honeybee. This plant has 'volunteered' upland…
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Pollen-ator
Flowers 'reward' their pollinators with nectar and pollen. Above a southern carpenter bee (Xylocopa micans), identifiable in part by its "shiny hiney", heads toward a partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata). The nickel to quarter-sized flowers of this member of the Fabaceae…
Saw ‘Pollinator’ Palmetto
Saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) flowers attract more than 300 species of pollinators according to Dr. Mark Deyrup of Archibold Biological Station. From saw palmetto European honeybees (Apis mellifera) produce an excellent non-granulating honey. Each inflorescence likely contains several thousand flowers…
Flat & yellow topped
Bees, wasps, flies, moths, skippers, butterflies, and other pollinators flock to Flaveria linearis, yellowtop. Fall is the usual time for flowering, but some of the yellowtops donated by Judy Gersony and planted on 5-23-2015 in the Audubon House landscape are…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 