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Title
Bee Fly On Roseling
Artist
Paul Rebmann
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Side view of a Poecilognathus bee fly on Florida scrub roseling flower. This image won Honorable Mention in the Orange Audubon Society's 2018 (30th Annual) Kit and Sidney Chertok Florida Native Nature Photography Contest.
This image has been featured in the following groups:
Insect and small animal on flowers (5/28/2017)
Most reports of this insect are from Florida. There have been sightings in the Dallas, Texas area.
Females of this species - Poecilognathus punctipennis - are known to knock the pollen off the anthers of the Spiderwort - Commelinaceae - family of plants and ingest the pollen, as this insect was seen doing on this roseling flower. Florida scrub roseling - Callisia ornata - is a Florida endemic wildflower.
(Subject description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)
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May 26th, 2017
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