Happenings in the insect world
- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Published on: July 16, 2013
Honey bees are passionate about passion flowers (Passiflora).
The intricate tropical flower is their private merry-go-round, their favorite hide 'n seek place, their gathering spot.
If you've been around passion flower vines, you know they attract honey bees, carpenter bees and Gulf Fritillary butterflies.
It's a showy flower to be studied, to be admired, to be photographed.
Especially with honey bees circling it.
Honey bees foraging on a passion flower blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
So many bees, so little time. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
From the top, the passion flower blossom looks like an intricate merry-go-round. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Comments:
by Win Rogers
on July 17, 2013 at 8:14 AM
I almost expect to see little fairies in there, too.
by Dan Rivers
on July 17, 2013 at 9:55 PM
Wait 'til you see the big black (carpenter?) bees bumbling about under the anthers. I can watch them for hours.
by Kathy Keatley Garvey
on July 18, 2013 at 3:17 PM
Those Valley carpenter bees, Xylocopa varipuncta, love this flower, too! (As do Gulf Fritillary butterflies)
by Melvin J Estrada
on July 29, 2013 at 2:29 PM
need more info on big black bees that bore in to live trees also on big golden ones that are fast
by Melvin J Estrada
on July 29, 2013 at 2:30 PM
need more info on big black bees that bore in to live trees also on big golden ones that are fast
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