Friday, August 24, 2007

Gathering Pollen

Bee gathering pollen

The field thistles see plenty of traffic these days. Although honeybee visitors are scarce, there are plenty of native bees gathering pollen.

Native bee on thistle

3 comments:

Cathy said...

I'm loving my new macro feature. It's opening a whole new world. Have you determined what kind of thistle?

Brett Hendrickson said...

I love these, with their pollen baskets full.

Rebecca Clayton said...

Cathy, it seems to be a Field Thistle, although I haven't gotten really technical in species ID.

Brett, they are cute, aren't they?