Saturday, October 19, 2024

Insects in Action

 By Richard B. Primack

 

“It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?” Henry David Thoreau in a letter to a friend.

 

Our summer of pollination work at the Arnold Arboretum yielded many wonderful observations of insects in action visiting flowers. Here are a few:


Video 1. Great black wasp on clematis flowers.
 


Video 2. Wasp on goldenrod.
 


Video 3. Small bees on lily anthers.
 


Video 4. Green bee visiting a sunflower.
 


Video 5. Fly on boneset flowers.
 


 

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