Conophytums and bees
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- iann
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Conophytums and bees
Conophytum meyeri, with bee.
Conophytum mirabile, with smaller bee. Or hoverfly?
Conophtum longum, but I missed the bee!
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Re: Conophytums and bees
Lovely plants!
I think it's a hoverfly on the C. meyeri, probably the Common Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax).
I think it's a hoverfly on the C. meyeri, probably the Common Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax).
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Re: Conophytums and bees
I think the meyeri is really a small form of bilobum.
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See www.conophytum.com for ca.4000 photos and growing info on Conophytum, Crassula & Adromischus.
See www.conophytum.com for ca.4000 photos and growing info on Conophytum, Crassula & Adromischus.
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Re: Conophytums and bees
There's a lot of hoverflies on the Conophytum flowers at the moment. Maybe not a lot of pollen about elsewhere.
The bilobum is almost an exact duplicate, you might say a clone, for another plant I have but no location data with it. Apparently it came from Shirley Brennan, although I have no recollection at all of that. That makes C. meyeri missing in action. The bilobes are all very confusing to me, sometimes seems like there is more variation within one species than between different ones. Even before looking at the hybrids!
The bilobum is almost an exact duplicate, you might say a clone, for another plant I have but no location data with it. Apparently it came from Shirley Brennan, although I have no recollection at all of that. That makes C. meyeri missing in action. The bilobes are all very confusing to me, sometimes seems like there is more variation within one species than between different ones. Even before looking at the hybrids!
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Re: Conophytums and bees
My Delospermas are a magnet for hoverflies. The bees prefer Linaria, Anemone and Antirrhinum. Both enjoyed the sunflowers when they were producing.
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Re: Conophytums and bees
I noticed in my collection over a number of years that the Hoverflies seem only to be interested in the pollen of mesembryanthemum species. Bees tend not to bother with mesembryanthemum flowers preferring plants with easy accessible nectar like echeveria etc
Especially interested in Mesembs. small Aloes and South African miniatures and bulbs.
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