[Pollinator] What's wrong with this picture? It is a pollinia !

[André]

Hello,
 
 
This Honey bee carries many pollinia from Milkweed Asclepias sp. flowers on her legs. Black part is a corpusculum and yellow part is pollinial sac.
 
See this PDF  from :  Insect pollinators of 12 milkweed (asclepias) species
 
http://images.library.wisc.edu/EcoNatRes/EFacs/NAPC/NAPC13/reference/econatres.napc13.rbetz.pdf
 
 It is very common with large bees, like with Bumble bee!
 
Regards,
 
André Payette
Insectarium de Montréal
Montréal, Québec, Canada
 
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 15:47:18 +0800
From: bernhap2 at slu.edu
To: beemonitoring at yahoogroups.com; pollinator at lists.sonic.net
Subject: [Pollinator] What's wrong with this picture?

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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