Tag: nectar

A bee while immersed in pollen from a passion flower.
One of the flowers I love to photograph most is the passion flower.
The kaleidoscope of colors fascinates me greatly.
At that moment there was also a beautiful bee that was stealing the nectar.

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Photo taken with Canon EOS RP and lens Canon RF 24-50.

The name of the genus, adopted by Linnaeus in 1753 and meaning “passion flower” (from the Latin passio = passion and flos = flower), was attributed to it by the Jesuit missionaries in 1610, due to the similarity of some parts of the plant to the religious symbols of the passion of Jesus: the tendrils to the whip with which he was flagellated, the three styles to the nails, the stamens to the hammer, the corolla rays to the crown of thorns.
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A bee being immersed in pollen from a passion flower – Une abeille immergée dans le pollen d’une fleur de la passion – Una abeja sumergida en el polen de una flor de la pasión – Uma abelha sendo imersa no pólen de uma flor de maracujá – Eine Biene taucht in den Pollen einer Passionsblume ein – Một con ong đang đắm mình trong phấn hoa từ một bông hoa đam mê – 一只蜜蜂沉浸在西番莲花粉中 – トケイソウの花の花粉に浸るミツバチ