Honey Bees are Among the Beautiful Fall Pollinators That Love Tamarisk
Honey Bees are Among the Beautiful Fall Pollinators That Love Tamarisk shows a honey bee flying into a bunch of tamarisk flowers. Honey bees were among a plethora of insects enjoying and pollinating the flowers.
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Recently, when I went out for a hike, I found this wonderful patch of tamarisk flowers not far from my house. It was loaded with pollinators of all sizes and shapes. I could probably have spent the entire day right there just shooting pics of wasps, bees, and all manner of other insects. Among the insects that the flowers had attracted were quite a few honey bees (Apis mellifera). They…
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Native Plant Info Masterlist...2!
This will be a USA centric post sadly, mostly focused on the East, since I am unfamiliar with resources outside of my area.
iNaturalist lets you upload pictures of any organisms and get them identified by the community, but if you don't want to upload, you can still lurk and look through all the photos being posted in your area to develop familiarity with the plants
Wildflower Search lets you toggle between photos of leaves, flowers, fruits etc. of each plant, gives loads of links to other sites that provide info, lets you search by flower color, plant type, time of year, and about a dozen other search criteria- very cool site
Wildflower.org is another very good site- has a search function where you can search plants by various traits and qualities
Find native plants by the number of butterflies that use them
Butterfly host plant list
Keystone species for every USA ecoregion for butterflies and bees
UNC Chapel Hill's 2022 Flora of the Southeastern United States. The ultimate EXHAUSTIVE compendium of plants. You can download it but beware it is over 2,000 pages long
Illinois Wildflowers is an excellent resource for plants found throughout the southeast and Midwest
Virginia Wildflowers
Northern Forest Atlas Awesome high quality photos of trees and leaves, buds, etc.
Name That Plant is a great resource focused on the Carolinas and Georgia
Maryland Biodiversity has much information on plants and many other creatures
Sarracenia.com is all about carnivorous plants
Native Beeology is focused on native bees of New York State
Also try looking up "[your state] native plant society" as many states have one! It could be a great way to find opportunities to get involved.
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