Viola blanda, Sweet White Violet, Howard County, Md, Helen Lowe Metzman
Sweet White Violet. There is a bee that is a violet specialist. Andrena violae (an unsurprising name). When we use colored traps to catch bees, this at the right time and place can be a bee commonly captured. It, however is only captured in blue bowls (ignoring white and yellow). So here is a nice white violet (though with purple nectar guides) is it ignored by this bee, there are also yellow violets...similarly ignored? This is basic information people why are we in the dark here? Its as if no one knew that water is blue. Picture and specimen by Helen Lowe Metzman.
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde. Original public domain image from Flickr