Hello Ken;
Great to here from you, I will send that piece of SC Advent at end of July.
Again while in the seedling patch last night I only noticed bumblebees at work, no honeybees. None of the fritillaries that I saw approach TBs, just a Tiger Swallowtail again.
Have not had slug issues, though I did sustain some slight grasshopper damage on leaves last August in the middle of drought. They nibbled on edges but no plant received much damage.
Bill
Ken Walkup <krw25@cornell.edu> wrote:
>Bill & Dennis,
> I've "almost" caught the bees on camera several times in the last
>few days; the dang digital delay has defeated me every time. I also see
>some kind of fly working the blossoms ( hope it's not orthochaeta), and
>even a few ants on the shorter ones, but if you watch the bees at work it's
>easy to imagine how the mechanism works.
> ken
>At 08:57 PM 6/11/2007, you wrote:
>
>>Bill,
>>
>>There's a reason they're called "bee pods".
>>
>>I see lots of "visitors" in my iris gardens, but after having examined the
>>flowers carefully, I think the only visitors that I call pollinators are
>>the bees that wedge themselves under the style arm and pick up pollen from
>>the anthers. At the next stop, some of the pollen is scraped from their
>>backs by the stygmatic lip.
>>
>>I've attached a photo of a bee doing its thing on a Japanese iris.
>>
>>Dennis Hager
>>on Delmarva
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: <mailto:wmcdougherty@cs.com>wmcdougherty@cs.com
>>To: <mailto:sibrob@yahoogroups.com>sibrob@yahoogroups.com
>>Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 5:37 PM
>>Subject: [sibrob] Pollinators
>>
>>To everyone with open flowers;
>>
>>I spent a very small time looking into this topic the season but I have
>>often found it curious as to what pollinators visit Siberian Iris? More
>>eyes and people with more time could help with this topic?
>>I have seen Tiger Swallowtail Butterflies and Bumblebees.
>>
>>Bill
>>
>>
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