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  • Wind is a principal method of pollen dispersal for the pollen cones of the lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta). Western Oregon.
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  • Wind is a principal method of pollen dispersal for the pollen cones of the lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta). Western Oregon.
    pollen_dispersal_51809SPr-53.jpg
  • Wind is a principal method of pollen dispersal for the pollen cones of the lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta). Western Oregon.
    pollen_dispersal_51809SPr-73.jpg
  • Wind is a principal method of pollen dispersal for the pollen cones of the lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta). Western Oregon.
    pollen_dispersal_51809SPr-56.jpg
  • Wind is a principal method of pollen dispersal for the pollen cones of the lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta). Western Oregon.
    pollen_dispersal_51809SPr-51.jpg
  • Pollen covers the pistil of a western white trillium (Trillium ovatum) in a 10X power close-up view.
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  • Pollen covers the anther filament of a western white trillium (Trillium ovatum) in a 10X power close-up view.
    pollen_detail_31710Pt4FV1.jpg
  • Pollen gathered on the anthem of a western white trillium (trillium Ovatum) blooming in eary spring. The white trillium bears distinctive 3-petaled; white flowers in spring above its dark-green leaves.
    pollen_detail_31610TRST.jpg
  • A pollen wasp (Pseudomasaris vespoides) photographed via permit at Big Hole National Battlefield, Montana.
    pollen_wasp-7114bh-103-2.jpg
  • A pollen wasp (Pseudomasaris vespoides) photographed via permit at Big Hole National Battlefield, Montana.
    pollen_wasp-7114bh-101-2.jpg
  • A pollen wasp (Pseudomasaris vespoides) with Lemhi Penstemon (Penstemon lemhiensis) flowers. Evidence suggests that the wasp co-evolved with the penstemon to pollinate the plant. Photographed via permit at Big Hole National Battlefield, Montana.
    Pollen_wasp-7114pw-106-Edit.jpg
  • A pollen wasp (Pseudomasaris vespoides) photographed via permit at Big Hole National Battlefield, Montana.
    pollen_wasp-7114bh-100-2.jpg
  • A pollen wasp (Pseudomasaris vespoides) with Lemhi Penstemon (Penstemon lemhiensis) flowers. Evidence suggests that the wasp co-evolved with the penstemon to pollinate the plant. Photographed via permit at Big Hole National Battlefield, Montana.
    Pollen_wasp-7114pw-113.jpg
  • A pollen wasp (Pseudomasaris vespoides) with Lemhi Penstemon (Penstemon lemhiensis) flowers. Evidence suggests that the wasp co-evolved with the penstemon to pollinate the plant. Photographed via permit at Big Hole National Battlefield, Montana.
    Pollen_wasp-7114pw-109-Edit.jpg
  • A pollen wasp (Pseudomasaris vespoides) Photographed via permit at Big Hole National Battlefield, Montana.
    Pollen_wasp-7114pw-105.jpg
  • A pollen wasp (Pseudomasaris vespoides) photographed via permit at Big Hole National Battlefield, Montana.
    pollen_wasp-7114bh-102-2.jpg
  • A pollen wasp (Pseudomasaris vespoides) with Lemhi Penstemon (Penstemon lemhiensis) flowers. Evidence suggests that the wasp co-evolved with the penstemon to pollinate the plant. Photographed via permit at Big Hole National Battlefield, Montana.
    pollen_wasp-7114bh-109-Edit.jpg
  • A pollen wasp (Pseudomasaris vespoides) inside the flower of a Lemhi Penstemon (Penstemon lemhiensis). Evidence suggests that the wasp co-evolved with the penstemon to pollinate the plant. Photographed via permit at Big Hole National Battlefield, Montana.
    Pollen_wasp-7114pw-102.jpg
  • A green bottle fly (family: Calliphoridae) feeding on pollen and nectar from a daisy flower. Western Oregon.
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  • A green bottle fly (family: Calliphoridae) feeding on pollen and nectar from a daisy flower. Western Oregon.
    green_fly_82212-100.jpg
  • A green bottle fly (family: Calliphoridae) feeding on pollen and nectar from a daisy flower. Western Oregon.
    green_fly_82212-101.jpg
  • A bumble bee (bombus sp.) with large pollen baskets. Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee.
    bombus-62113in-120.jpg
  • honey bee (Apis mellifera) and a garden flower. Pollin has gathered on the legs into "pollen baskets".
    flying_bee_Apis_mellifera_90807HB-17.jpg
  • Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica) covered in pollen. Photographed in flight near the north Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee. This bee was large, fast and very aerobatic in the air.
    Eastern_carpenter_bee-62413cb-147.jpg
  • Green Bottle Fly (Calliphora sp.) pollinating a daisy flower. Note the pollen on the legs and body of the fly.
    green_bottle_fly-71412PF2-367.jpg
  • A large bumble bee (Bombus huntii) with full pollen baskets, flies from a rhododendron flower in NE Oregon.
    flying_bumble_beeBHuntii5.jpg
  • honey bee (Apis mellifera) and a garden flower. Pollin has gathered on the legs into "pollen baskets".
    flying_bee_Apis_mellifera_90807HB-16...jpg
  • honey bee (Apis mellifera) and a garden flower. Pollin has gathered on the legs into "pollen baskets".
    flying_bee_Apis_mellifera_90807HB-14...jpg
  • honey bee (Apis mellifera) and a garden flower. Pollin has gathered on the legs into "pollen baskets".
    flying_bee_Apis_mellifera_90707HB-13...jpg
  • A tiny leafcutter bee (Genus: Megachile, possible subgenus: Chelostomoides) departs a goldenrod flower (Solidago sp.) after collecting nectar and pollen.
    flying_leafcutter_bee_8505LBee3.jpg
  • A tiny leafcutter bee (Genus: Megachile) departs a goldenrod flower (Solidago sp.) after collecting nectar and pollen.
    flying_leafcutter_bee_8505LBee1.jpg
  • Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica) covered in pollen. Photographed in flight near the north Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee. This bee was large, fast and very aerobatic in the air.
    Eastern_carpenter_bee-62413cb-148.jpg
  • Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica) covered in pollen. Photographed in flight near the north Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee. This bee was large, fast and very aerobatic in the air.
    Eastern_carpenter_bee-62413cb-140.jpg
  • Green Bottle Fly (Calliphora sp.) pollinating a daisy flower. Note the pollen on the legs and body of the fly.
    green_bottle_fly-71412PF2-362.jpg
  • Green Bottle Fly (Calliphora sp.) pollinating a daisy flower. Note the pollen on the legs and body of the fly.
    green_bottle_fly-71412PF-126.jpg
  • A worker honey bee (Apis mellifera) collects nectar from red clover flowers (Trifolium pratense). Note the pollen baskets on the legs. Northwest Oregon..
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  • honey bee (Apis mellifera) and a garden flower. Pollin has gathered on the legs into "pollen baskets".
    flying_bee_Apis_mellifera_90807HB-35...jpg
  • honey bee (Apis mellifera) and a garden flower. Pollin has gathered on the legs into "pollen baskets".
    flying_bee_Apis_mellifera_90807HB-23...jpg
  • honey bee (Apis mellifera) and a garden flower. Pollin has gathered on the legs into "pollen baskets".
    flying_bee_Apis_mellifera_90807HB-21...jpg
  • honey bee (Apis mellifera) and a garden flower. Pollin has gathered on the legs into "pollen baskets".
    flying_bee_Apis_mellifera_90807HB-19...jpg
  • honey bee (Apis mellifera) and a garden flower. Pollin has gathered on the legs into "pollen baskets".
    flying_bee_Apis_mellifera_90807HB-16...jpg
  • honey bee (Apis mellifera) and a garden flower. Pollin has gathered on the legs into "pollen baskets".
    flying_bee_Apis_mellifera_90707HB-77...jpg
  • honey bee (Apis mellifera) and a garden flower. Pollin has gathered on the legs into "pollen baskets".
    flying_bee_Apis_mellifera_90707HB-77.jpg
  • A tiny leafcutter bee (Genus: Megachile) departs a goldenrod flower (Solidago sp.) after collecting nectar and pollen.
    flying_leafcutter_bee_8505LBee2.jpg
  • Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica) covered in pollen. Photographed in flight near the north Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee. This bee was large, fast and very aerobatic in the air.
    Eastern_carpenter_bee-62413cb-124.jpg
  • Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica) covered in pollen. Photographed in flight near the north Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee. This bee was large, fast and very aerobatic in the air.
    Eastern_carpenter_bee-62413cb-117.jpg
  • Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica) covered in pollen. Photographed in flight near the north Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee. This bee was large, fast and very aerobatic in the air.
    Eastern_carpenter_bee-62413cb-114.jpg
  • Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica) covered in pollen. Photographed in flight near the north Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee. This bee was large, fast and very aerobatic in the air.
    Eastern_carpenter_bee-62413cb-111.jpg
  • Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica) covered in pollen. Photographed in flight near the north Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee. This bee was large, fast and very aerobatic in the air.
    Eastern_carpenter_bee-62413cb-110.jpg
  • Green Bottle Fly (Calliphora sp.) pollinating a daisy flower. Note the pollen on the legs and body of the fly.
    green_bottle_fly-71412PF-385.jpg
  • honey bee (Apis mellifera) and a garden flower. Pollin has gathered on the legs into "pollen baskets".
    flying_bee_Apis_mellifera_90807UGb-1...jpg
  • honey bee (Apis mellifera) and a garden flower. Pollin has gathered on the legs into "pollen baskets".
    flying_bee_Apis_mellifera_90807HB-40...jpg
  • honey bee (Apis mellifera) and a garden flower. Pollin has gathered on the legs into "pollen baskets".
    flying_bee_Apis_mellifera_90807HB-20...jpg
  • honey bee (Apis mellifera) and a garden flower. Pollin has gathered on the legs into "pollen baskets".
    flying_bee_Apis_mellifera_90807HB-10...jpg
  • honey bee (Apis mellifera) and a garden flower. Pollin has gathered on the legs into "pollen baskets".
    flying_bee_Apis_mellifera_90707HB-85.jpg
  • A leafcutter bee (Genus: Megachile) departs a goldenrod flower (Solidago sp.) after collecting nectar and pollen.
    flying_bee_8605LLBee8.jpg
  • Two leafcutter bees (Genus: Megachile) depart a goldenrod flower (Solidago sp.) after collecting nectar and pollen.
    flying_bee_8605LLBee6.jpg
  • A leafcutter bee (Genus: Megachile) departs a goldenrod flower (Solidago sp.) after collecting nectar and pollen.
    flying_bee_8605LLBee5.jpg
  • A leafcutter bee (Genus: Megachile) flies toward a goldenrod flower (Solidago sp.) to collect nectar and pollen.
    flying_bee_8605LLBee3.jpg
  • A leafcutter bee (Genus: Megachile) departs a goldenrod flower (Solidago sp.) after collecting nectar and pollen.
    flying_bee_8605LLBee2.jpg
  • A leafcutter bee (Genus: Megachile) departs a goldenrod flower (Solidago sp.) after collecting nectar and pollen.
    flying_bee_8605LLBee1.jpg
  • A tiny leafcutter bee (Genus: Megachile) departs a goldenrod flower (Solidago sp.) after collecting nectar and pollen.
    flying_leafcutter_bee_8505LBee4.jpg
  • Tricolored bumble bee (Bombus Ternarius) flying among silky lupine (Lupinus sericeus) flowers. Moses-Coulee Field Station for The Nature Conservancy in Central Washington.
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  • Tricolored bumble bee (Bombus Ternarius) flying among silky lupine (Lupinus sericeus) flowers. Moses-Coulee Field Station for The Nature Conservancy in Central Washington.
    flying_Tricolored_bumble_bee_6710NBe...jpg
  • Tricolored bumble bee (Bombus Ternarius) flying among silky lupine (Lupinus sericeus) flowers. Moses-Coulee Field Station for The Nature Conservancy in Central Washington.
    flying_Tricolored_bumble_bee_6710NBe...jpg
  • Tricolored bumble bee (Bombus Ternarius) flying among silky lupine (Lupinus sericeus) flowers. Moses-Coulee Field Station for The Nature Conservancy in Central Washington.
    flying_Tricolored_bumble_bee_6710NBe...jpg
  • Tricolored bumble bee (Bombus Ternarius) flying among silky lupine (Lupinus sericeus) flowers. Moses-Coulee Field Station for The Nature Conservancy in Central Washington.
    flying_Tricolored_bumble_bee_6710NBe...jpg
  • A male Narcissus bulb fly (Merodon equestris) flying near a hydrangea flower in western Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    Narcissus_bulb_fly-71412HV-262.jpg
  • A leaf-cutter bee (anthidium sp.) pollinating a flower in western Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    leaf-cutter_bee-IMG_0733.jpg
  • A Narcissus bulb fly (Merodon equestris) flying near a hydrangea flower in western Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    Narcissus_bulb_fly-71412HV-330.jpg
  • A Narcissus bulb fly (Merodon equestris) flying near a hydrangea flower in western Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    Narcissus_bulb_fly-71412HV-325.jpg
  • A Narcissus bulb fly (Merodon equestris) flying near a hydrangea flower in western Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    Narcissus_bulb_fly-71412HV-312.jpg
  • Native bee portrait photographed in late Spring. Western Oregon.
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  • A leaf-cutter bee (anthidium sp.) pollinating a flower in western Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    leaf-cutter_bee-IMG_0788.jpg
  • A longhorn beetle flower (Leptura obliterata) pollinating a garden daisy flower in western Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    beetle_pollination-71412PF-529.jpg
  • A Narcissus bulb fly (Merodon equestris) flying near a hydrangea flower in western Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    Narcissus_bulb_fly-71412HV-388.jpg
  • A Narcissus bulb fly (Merodon equestris) flying near a hydrangea flower in western Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    Narcissus_bulb_fly-71412HV-372.jpg
  • A Narcissus bulb fly (Merodon equestris) flying near a hydrangea flower in western Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    Narcissus_bulb_fly-71412HV-348.jpg
  • A female Narcissus bulb fly (Merodon equestris) flying near a hydrangea flower in western Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    Narcissus_bulb_fly-71412HV-128.jpg
  • A leaf-cutter bee (anthidium sp.) pollinating a flower in western Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    leaf-cutter_bee-IMG_0695.jpg
  • A western honeybee (Apis mellifera) in flight. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    Apis_mellifera-72312BZb-262.jpg
  • A tiny male halictidae bee approaching a garden daisy flowers in western Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
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  • A digital composite of the same mining bee (genus: Andrena ) in several different flight attitudes. Western Oregon. Photographed with a high-speed camera system.
    flying_native_bee_51510NcB-PN1.jpg
  • A female mining bee (genus: Andrena). Western Oregon. Photographed with a high-speed camera system.
    flying_native_bee_51510NcB-108.jpg
  • A female mining bee (genus: Andrena). Western Oregon. Photographed with a high-speed camera system.
    flying_native_bee_51510NcB-105.jpg
  • A female mining bee (genus: Andrena). Western Oregon. Photographed with a high-speed camera system.
    flying_native_bee_51510NcB-101.jpg
  • A wild mariposa lily (Calochortus macrocarpus) at The Nature Conservancy's Whisper Lake Preserve, central Washington.
    mariposa_lily_62109MPl2-22.jpg
  • A leaf-cutter bee (anthidium sp.) pollinating a flower in western Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    leaf-cutter_bee-IMG_0751.jpg
  • A leaf-cutter bee (anthidium sp.) pollinating a flower in western Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    leaf-cutter_bee-IMG_0731.jpg
  • A western honeybee (Apis mellifera) in flight. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    Apis_mellifera-72312BZb-157.jpg
  • A longhorn beetle flower (Leptura obliterata) pollinating a garden daisy flower in western Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    beetle_pollination-71412PF2-490.jpg
  • A longhorn beetle flower (Leptura obliterata) pollinating a garden daisy flower in western Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    beetle_pollination-71412PF-165.jpg
  • This large bumble bee is a queen of the species Bombus morrisoni. She is flying toward sweet pea flowers in the Deschutes National Forest, Oregon. Please note: this image has been digitally altered. two additional insects (only partially in frame) were removed from the background. The original camera file is available upon request.
    queen_bumble_bee_8405BBee1.jpg
  • Bumble bees (Bombus sp. [possibly Bombus vegans]) nectar on flowers near the Metolius River in Central Oregon. Deschutes National Forest. Note the tattered wing on the flying adult indicates an older bee.
    pollinating_bumble_bees_8305BBee1.jpg
  • A honey bee (apis mellifera) lifts off from a small aster flower floating in a pond at sunset. Honeybees will collect pollen in late fall if the weather allows, and flowers are still to be found. © Michael Durham /www.DurmPhoto.com
    bee_reflection_102013RF-320.jpg
  • A western white trillium (trillium Ovatum) with yellow anthers full of pollen, blooming in eary spring. The white trillium bears distinctive 3-petaled, white flowers in spring above its dark-green leaves.
    white_trillium_trillium_Ovatum_31610...jpg
  • A tiny leafcutter bee (Genus: Megachile, possible subgenus: Chelostomoides) departs a goldenrod flower (Solidago sp.) after collecting nectar and pollen.
    flying_leafcutter_bee_8505LBee6.jpg
  • Covered in pollen, a native green bee (Andrena ilicis) in flight, Texas. Note the tattered wings inidcate this bee is approaching old age, and the end of its useful life.
    old_bee_32909TCHm-97.jpg
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