Honey Bee on Indigo
by Paul Rebmann
Title
Honey Bee on Indigo
Artist
Paul Rebmann
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
A western honey bee feeding on the flowers of bastard false indigo.
Western honey bees - Apis mellifera - is the general term used to describe the many variations of European honey bees in North America.
A frequent deciduous shrub of hammocks and stream banks throughout most of Florida. The range includes the United States except for Montana and Nevada, plus New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba,
Growing with a shrubby habit up to 4m (13 ft.) tall, this member of the pea family has a corolla that is reduced to one petal, equivalent to the standard on a typical Fabaceae flower. The leaves are alternate, odd-pinnately compound and 1-3dm (4-12 in.) long. There are 9 to 35 leaflets per leaf, each being elliptic, oblong or lanceolate, 1-5cm long and 0.5-3cm wide. The leaflets are often densely pubescent and marked with dots or depressions of glands. The flowers appear in mid to late spring in dense, elongated racemes to 2dm (8 in.) long with showy golden-yellow anthers extending from deep blue or purple petals. The fruit is a small, curved pod about 8mm (5/16 in.) long with one seed.
(Subject description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)
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October 6th, 2021
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