The fly crawls in the plant’s fuzzy, veiny, ear-like tube thinking it’s getting a blood meal and is trapped for the night, only to be released the next morning covered in pollen.
Oh, like you never woke up like that.
Look, Nat Geo, there's no reason to go around judging people for passing out in plants. This from a magazine that survives on publishing topless photos of "natives"?! Sad!
This cactus/bee love story has a very unhappy ending. The flowers must be irresistible, as each bloom starts a fight, and only one bee occupies each bloom. They stay there all day, rolling around in the pollen. The flowers close up at night with the bee inside, they never reopen, the bee is dead, the end.
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The fly crawls in the plant’s fuzzy, veiny, ear-like tube thinking it’s getting a blood meal and is trapped for the night, only to be released the next morning covered in pollen.
Oh, like you never woke up like that.
Look, Nat Geo, there's no reason to go around judging people for passing out in plants. This from a magazine that survives on publishing topless photos of "natives"?! Sad!
This cactus/bee love story has a very unhappy ending. The flowers must be irresistible, as each bloom starts a fight, and only one bee occupies each bloom. They stay there all day, rolling around in the pollen. The flowers close up at night with the bee inside, they never reopen, the bee is dead, the end.
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Hawt!
True fact! I was charged with looking for that pipevine on certain lands out here. ….found by following the pipevine swallowtail. Yeah, well, talk about fun! Chasing a butterfly up and down in summer!!!
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