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I was really surprised to see this little beetle act as a competent pollinator of Bloodroot. During the span of about a minute it walked around the flower, across the stamens, and made contact with the stigmatic surface before flying to a nearby flower and repeating the process. You can see just how much pollen it was transporting.

The Bodhi Tree (Ficus religiosa) :The world's most famous tree, this tree marks the location where the Buddha attained enlightenment, and is the destination for the Buddhism's most important pilgrimage. This individual is from the 1800s, a fourth generation of cutting from a Sri Lankan sapling of the original