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ljm2002 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:02 AM
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Busy Bees
My cactus garden is blooming, and the bees are lovin' it...

Bee in Purple Prickly Pear flower:



Bees in Pencil Cholla flower:
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JeffR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 01:28 AM
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1. It's amazing how strange that second photo seems.
Even though everything in it is recognizable right away, it still hits me the way some of the Hubble images do. Cosmic!
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ljm2002 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 08:59 AM
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2. It is definitely "out there"...
...that's what I love about cacti in general, they produce some of the most amazing and bizarre flowers.

Some of the bees end up totally covered in yellow pollen -- they're like drunken sailors. They burrow in, sometimes staying in the flower overnight while the flower closes over them, then emerging the next morning when it opens up again. It's weird.
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