Minnesota Pollinators and "friends"
Insects live and work in a world of amazing botanical structure and intense color that we can barely imagine. I try to capture the beauty of these wildly varied and amazingly successful creatures, in the small yet dazzling world they live in.
Recently I've been photographing Minnesota's pollinators on native plants.
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Brown Belted Bumblebee Queen
A queen Brown Belted bumblebee, Bombus griseocollis, on Butterfly Weed, Asclepias, also known as Swamp Milkweed. Queens are the only ones to survive the winter; they emerge in the spring and start foraging in preparation to begin a new colony. While consuming the sweet stuff offered by the flowers, she picks up sticky gold pollen and transfers it from plant to plant.
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