Centris lanosa, F, Face, FL, Torreya
Centris lanosa, F, Face, FL, Torreya
A disjunct population of a western bee...or at least not intermediate populations have been found between Florida and the West. This specimen was caught almost in Georgia, so close as it might as well be recorded for the state. Centris are oil collectors, replacing at least some of the nectar normally fed to young with oils collected from plants who lure this species with a fatty gift. Collected by Dave Gruenewald ...studying southern pine plantation bees. Photograph by Brooke Alexander
Further in Summer than the Birds
Pathetic from the Grass
A minor Nation celebrates
Its unobtrusive Mass.
No Ordinance be seen
So gradual the Grace
A pensive Custom it becomes
Enlarging Loneliness.
Antiquest felt at Noon
When August burning low
Arise this spectral Canticle
Repose to typify
Remit as yet no Grace
No Furrow on the Glow
Yet a Druidic Difference
Enhances Nature now
-- Emily Dickinson. Original public domain image from Flickr