Gallery of Flowers,
Flower Visitors
And Other Interesting Stuff
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Honeybees
High Mileage: Elderly honeybee on goldernrod
Honeybee lapping a spill of honey
Honeybee on dandelion
Honeybee on milkweed
Pollen covered honeybee on Viburnum
Worker closeups: Face, showing
mouthparts Pollen comb
Pollen basket (empty)
Wing detail
Swarm in the air
The Swarm that Forgot to Find a Home
Starving bees - A frame of bees decimated by
starvation in early spring
NEW! Insect Wars!
Yellow jackets relentlessly attack a beehive in this MOV format movie
10-14-01
NEW! Swarm marches into the
entrance of a beehive, MOV format movie 04-19-03
NEW! Swarm arrives and enters a
hollow stump, MOV format movie 04-19-03
Bumblebees
Bumblebee on spearmint
Bumblebee on knapweed
Bumblebee on azalea
Bombus fraternus on kudzu
Ambushed Bombus pennsylvanicus on horsemint
Bombus bimaculatus queen on domestic plum
The perfection of youth!
Who Sez Bumblebees Can't Fly?
Dewy, sleeping Bombus fraternus male on flowers at dawn.
Already sleeping fraternus on begger tick at dusk.
Carpenter Bees
Xylocopa virginica on Ilex
Xylocopa virginica on privet (coated with pollen)
Xylcopa virginica on horsemint
Xylocopa micans on kudzu
Other Solitary Bees
Megachilid on Blue Mistflower
Solitary Bee on Bradford Pear
Mason Bees nesting in tongue and groove boards
Digger (or mining) Bees on Photina
Solitary bee collecting from azalea anthers
Two Lovely Halictid Bees
A Digger Bee on Sunflower
Bee Mimics
Syrphid fly on chicory
Syrphid fly on titi
Syrphid fly on vitex
Syrphid fly on mustard
Tachinid coming to honey spill
Bombylid fly on unknown flower
Hoverfly hovering by spearmint
Dronefly on begger tick
Photographic Plant/Pollinator Database Plant by plant pollinator and other insect associations.
Wasps and other Hymenopterans
Polistes wasp on sweet clover
Polistes wasp starting nest
Polistes wasp on climbing hempweed
Red-tailed wasp on Asclepias
Paper wasp nest under a tree stump
Mud dauber nest
Organ Pipe Wasps,
AKA Mud Daubers, AKA Blue Devils photos of wasps, nests, brood and prey.
A Huge Hornet's Nest next to my beehives
Movie File:
polistes wasp queen starting nest (offsite; use back button to return)
Braconid wasp cocoons on a hornworm
(sphinx moth) larva
Green Eyes: an unidentified scoliid on Hempweed
Beneficial Insects
Ladybug eating aphids
Wheelbug on peas
Assassin bug on coxcomb
Assassin bug sipping goldenrod nectar
Mantis on Sweet Clover
Dragonfly
Mating Soldier Beetles on goldenrod
Blue Bottle Fly on aster
Asian Ladybugs: Home Invaders
Pest Insect Images Index
Leps (Butterflies, Moths and Skippers)
Common Buckeye, Junonia coenia
Corn earworm moth closeup on begger tick
Yellow Wollybear
Caterpillar on Bicolor Lespedeza
The Last Viceroy of Summer Sad
Theme Pictorials
What's Buzzin' in My Garden?
Hand Pollination in Pictures
Goldenrod Visitors in SC
Estigmene acrea
Salt Marsh Moth, Life cycle in photos
Agraulis vanillae, Gulf Fritillary
butterly, Life cycle in photos, host plant Passiflora incarnata, on kids page
Aster Visitors in SC More Aster, and other fall flowers
February Flower Visitors in SC
April Flower Visitors in SC
It's Dangerous to Be a Pollinator
Bee Butts - Some of the color variations in honeybees
Old Bee/Young Bee: How can I tell the
difference?
Queen? Worker? Drone? Identifying the three classes
of honeybees.
Hiving an Easy Swarm
Transferring Wild Bees into a Hive
Another feral (wild) hive
transfer, with visual examination for parasites
Cheap and Simple Yellow Jacket trap
SC State Fair Pollination Exhibit:
Blue ribbon winner!
Providing Homes for Mason Bees
Solitary
bees collecting azalea pollen
Good Pollination and Poor Pollination Images of
Blackberry Fruit
Camouflage katydid in the foliage
Can You Identify These?
Drone fly or other syrphid on knapweed?
Beetle on queen anne's lace
Unidentified
solitary bees
Not yet identified solitary bee on
goldenrod
Not yet identified halictid bee on
goldenrod
Love Bug in South Carolina?
Offsite links to other insect/bee photo galleries:
Insect Pollinators: Flowers'
Best Friends Beatriz Moisset's photos, (en espanol tambien)
Drone
Carpenter bees in mid air (although I think they are just curious, not
"aggressive")
Aculeate Hymenoptera (in
German) photos and info
Cirrus Digital Imaging
Common North American Arthropods
John Snyder's links
to moth images on the web (with aids to identification)
Insect
Photo Gallery at Cedar Creek, MN
Heinz
Schneider's flower visitor images and database Switzerland, U of Basel
(Many of these photos are awesome!)
Troy Bartlett's insects
(cicada killer, digger wasps, cow killers, etc)
Nelson Bohart's Bee
pics (nice squash bee shot...)
Osmia rufa at Jan
Tempelman's page
My Butterfly Garden
Ann is a backyard naturalist/photographer in Columbia, SC -nice pics
Zachary's Bee Photos
some beautiful shots of bees on flowers by Michigan Professor Zachary Huang
Solitary Bee drawings at
Gordon's Earthlife Page
Steve
Buchmann's Bee Photos
Steve Hoffmann's Nature and Scenic
Photography, Insect Section
Randy Emmitt's North
Carolina Butterfly Page
America's Showiest
Moths
Bill's Lepidoptera Photos
VA Moths and butterflies of southeastern USA, some from Kenya, Central America
C. M. Younger's Nature Photos
from an urban PA park Some beautiful flower and insect photos including
some rare shots
Poul Beckmann's beetle photos
some good guys, some bad...gorgeous pics
Orchid Pollinator
Photos
Some North Carolina Leps
Photographs from Nature:
Canadian Butterfly Gallery
ENature Online Field
Guides Many photos of insects, some very good, some not so
Bees,
Microscopy, and Mathematics Seeing honeybees thru a microscope
Stein's Virtual Insectary
A Scanning Electron
Microscope Atlas of the Honey Bee USDA ARS Lab, AZ extreme
magnifications
Gallery
of Citrus Pollination Pictures
Keith Edkins bee/wasp
closeup photos: UK
Dr. Adam's photo collection of
southeastern Leps Awesome! Hundreds of photos, many caterpillars
included.
Lynn Scott's Moths of
the Ottawa Area comprehensive photos of living, not pinned moths.
Moths of a
Connecticut Yard nice pics, most nocturnal
My Bit of the Planet,
Great ladybugs, leaf cutter bees, and wildlife pics from an English garden
Garden Safari Very good
hymenoptera photos in Holland, as well as other insects and wildlife
Bob Patterson's
entomology Hobby Page Florida images
Flowers See also the Pictoral Plant/Pollinator
Database
Grape
Feijoa
Wild Flower survives hard frost: Can you identify?
Flower Photo Galleries:
Stein's Virtual
Herbarium
Florida Wild Flower Showcase
Arizona Wildflower Images
Wildflowers and gardening in the Hudson
Valley with artist and writer, Polly Law
Missouri Wildflowers
Susan Farmer's Wildflower
Photos
Garden Flowers in Central NY
Oklahoma Wildflower Database
Also includes a few exceptional insect photos
Stein's Virtual Herbarium
Reny's Wildflowers California
& western USA, Indexed by common and scientific names.