By Kevin Matteson, on August 10th, 2010
A while back, bee watcher Richard Warden sent in this awesome picture of multiple bees on a giant sunflower head. At the time, this was a record image for the Great Pollinator Project— four individual bees on a sunflower representing three species!
Four bees on sunflower, photo by Richard Warden
But the record was recently broken [...]
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By Meg Domroese, on June 25th, 2010
We heard this question many times over the course of the day at Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s 100th birthday – “Bee Day” – celebration on June 12. Ed Toth, Liz Johnson, and I manned a Great Pollinator Project table where a small box of bees from the American Museum of Natural History’s collection attracted a lot [...]
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