🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Ecological function of the ‘elephant trunk’ upper corolla in Pedicularis species’ in @AnnBot by Ze-Yu Tong and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/9)

👉 https://doi.org/qf4q

#PlantScience #Pollination #BuzzPollination #PlantScience #AoBpapers

Today is a good day! Lucky enough to finally get a shot of a bee, in this case, a two-spotted bumblebee, buzz pollinating my native red columbine (Aquilegia canadensis).

#bumblebees #wildlifegardening #columbine #buzzpollination #yxe

Henderson’s Shooting Star (Primula hendersonii) has nodding flowers with swept-back petals expose the stamens and pistil, encouraging buzz pollination by native bees. The bees vibrate their flight muscles to shake pollen loose—a technique also used by bumblebees on tomatoes!

#wildflowers #nature #california #wildlife #buzzpollination

Yesterdays fact.
Sorry we were otherwise distracted.
Still relevant though!
😊🐝

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 129.

Buzz pollination - in brief.
Bees rapidly contract their flight muscles. This produces powerful vibrations which they channel to the flower using their legs/mouths.
Result = a #pollen explosion all over the bee.
Happy bee!

#bees #beesofmastodon #bumblebees
#buzzpollination #nature
#naturephotography
#vegan #organic #savingbees