Posts Tagged: syprhid
Jupiter's Beard Makes the Cut

Clean-shaven it's not. Yet it's a cut above. For bees, syrphids and butterflies, the long-blooming...
A honey bee foraging on Jupiter's Beard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee sipping nectar from Jupiter's Beard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A syrphid, also known as a hover fly or flower fly, hovering over Jupiter's Beard. Flies are pollinators, too! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A syrphid, aka hover fly or flower fly, sipping nectar from Jupiter's Beard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Bee Is a Bee Is a Bee,,,

If poet Gertrude Stein were alive today, she might say "A bee is a bee is a bee" instead of "a rose...
A drone fly, Eristalis tenax, heading toward a Cosmos. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee, Apis mellifera, heading toward a rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)