#pollinator

[miyrumiyru]

He was so beautiful so I had to take a ton of photos! a flying emerald 💚

(M) Alpine Black Swallowtail (Papilio maackii)

[bedupolker]

Reposting some illustrations I did for NPS's pollinator week a couple years a go. You can read about these critters here!

[herpsandbirds]

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Occasional Day

It is a very, very busy time of year for flower longhorned beetles.

[weirdchristmas]

The beetles, when asked for comment on the game, simply observed that the table was green and the cards were colorful.

[mollyvega]

This hummingbird hawk moth is Lucian. Their body and wings are 100% silk. I forgot how much I loved painting silk. The brush just glides over it🧡

[typhlonectes]

Watch Ethiopian wolves drink flower nectar, a first for a large carnivore

Pollen coating their muzzles suggests the endangered canids may act as furry pollinators.

With fewer than 500 individuals believed to be alive today, Ethiopian wolves (Canis simensis) are the world’s rarest wild canid and Africa’s most endangered carnivore. But when they’re not chowing down on rodents, these lanky, alpine wolf relatives have a bit of a sweet tooth: Researchers report this week in Ecology that the animals enjoy licking nectar from red hot poker flowers (Kniphofia foliosa, seen in the video above), documenting this behavior for the first time in a large predator...

Read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/watch-ethiopian-wolves-drink-flower-nectar-first-large-carnivore

[notjustbees]