Coming for You Buttercups

by Linda Brody

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Coming for You Buttercups

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Linda Brody

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Photograph - Photography, Photomanipulation, Cafeart

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Coming for You Buttercups. A Honey Bee enroute to yellow Buttercup flowers.

A honey bee, in contrast with the stingless honey bee, is any bee member of the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax. This Worker Bee is usually the only bee that most people ever see. These bees are females that are not sexually developed. Workers forage for food (pollen and nectar from flowers), build and protect the hive, clean, circulate air by beating their wings, and perform many other societal functions.

Bermuda buttercup, O. pes-caprae, is a South African native that grows in California's coastal gardens and fields as well as inland landscaped areas. Bermuda buttercup, also called Buttercup oxalis, has been cultivated as an ornamental, and although you'll occasionally find it in lawns, more often it is a problem in flowerbeds, groundcovers, and shrub areas in home landscapes or in commercial, field-grown flowers. In recent years it has been encroaching in natural areas and hillside plantings along California's coast.

The genus name Oxalis is derived from the Greek word meaning "sour," referring to the sour-tasting oxalic acid present throughout the plants. If livestock ingest large quantities, they can suffer from oxalate poisoning.

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April 24th, 2020

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