[Pollinator] What's wrong with this picture?

[Louise Lynch]

This can’t be right, but I’m going to go ahead and guess. - Are those little brown things attached to the milkweed pollinia (is that the correct term?) actually tarsi from other insects?


Kind regards,
Louise I. Lynch

Graduate Research Assistant
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Department of Entomology
220 Entomology Hall
Lincoln, Nebraska 68583-8692

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On May 27, 2015, at 2:47 AM, Peter Bernhardt <bernhap2 at slu.edu> wrote:

The warm weather has arrived.  Honeybees are visiting the early milkweeds of North America so... what's wrong with this picture (taken this morning from a specimen collected last week)?

Peter
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