- 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) Honey bees foraging on a passion flower blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/bugsquad/blogfiles/17081.jpg)
Honey bees foraging on a passion flower blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
![So many bees, so little time. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey) So many bees, so little time. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/bugsquad/blogfiles/17082.jpg)
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) From the top, the passion flower blossom looks like an intricate merry-go-round. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/bugsquad/blogfiles/17083.jpg)
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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