BumbleBee on Duranta Repens Sapphire 1 Canvas Print

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BumbleBee on Duranta Erecta Sapphire Flowers and Mixed Shrubbery. Macro.

A bumblebee, also written bumble bee, is a member of the bee genus Bombus, in the family Apidae. Over 250 species of bumblebee are known. Like their relatives the honeybees, bumblebees feed on nectar, using their long hairy tongues to lap up the liquid; the proboscis is folded under the head during flight. Bumblebees gather nectar to add to the stores in the nest, and pollen to feed their young. They forage using color and spatial relationships to identify flowers to feed from. Some bumblebees rob nectar, making a hole near the base of a flower to access the nectar while avoiding pollen transfer.

Duranta erecta 'Sapphire Showers' (Picotee Sky Flower) - Grown for its summer flowers and ornamental fruit. In late spring and summer, cascading clusters of 3/4 inch wide tubular flowers are an intense violet-blue with a white picotee edge along the flared petal tips. As with the species the flowers are f...

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