Bee insect bees flower flowers 111. Bees like flowers that produce nectar pollen or both. Bee common name for a winged flower feeding insect with branched body hairs. They vary in height are mosly blue or pink and tolerate most soils. Bees and flowering plants have a mutualistic relationship where both species benefit.
How a bee sees patterns as a result of its compound eyes is wonderfully illustrated at andy gigers b eye website. The tiny white pink or purple flowers of thyme are highly regarded by bees. For the plants that do need insect pollination they have a plan. Petal summer garden flower nature flight bee insect arthropod bees insects insects and bugs animal arthropod.
In fact the flowers provide food for bees. Plenty of pollen all on one flower and plenty of flowers on one shrub. While some flowers could survive without bees many species of flowering plants would go extinct without bees to transfer their pollen. Flowers provide bees with nectar and pollen which worker bees collect to feed their entire colonies.
Autumn the headily scented delicate white flowers of this evergreen shrub attract bumblebees and honeybees. This is because the flowers do not produce enough pollen to be transferred by wind or other methods. As the photo on the left shows bees have compound eyes. Abelia bee bush autumn the headily scented delicate white flowers of this evergreen shrub attract bumblebees and honeybees.
Thyme is very popular with the pollinator crowd and i dont blame them one bit. When designing your bee garden chose the best flowers for bees that do well in your region. Bees make up more than 20000 species of insects in the suborder apocrita order hymenoptera including the familiar honeybee and bumblebee as well as thousands more wasplike and flylike bees. Adult females collect pollen primarily to feed their larvae.
It is a favorite of other pollinators as well. Characteristics bees are dependent on pollen as a protein source and on flower nectar or oils as an energy source. This sun loving plant is a beneficial flower to plant for bees. Bees and flowers are a natural combination.
I could sit and watch the bees and other beneficial insects all over my thyme flowers all day. Flowers look very different to insect pollinators such as honey bees compared to what we mammals see. Bees provide flowers with the means to reproduce by spreading pollen from flower to flower in a process called pollination. The eye of a honey bee photo credits.
Hebe hh hs this extensive group of shrubs have wonderful flowers for bees. Like humans bees can perceive different colors.