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| Pollinators in Spring | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In early spring the weather is too cold for many insects. Many solitary bees and flies become active earlier than honey bees. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Skunk cabbage is one of the earliest bloomers. It generates enough heat to melt snow around it. The heat, flesh color and rotten smell attract carrion flies that lay eggs without realizing that their babies are doomed to die of hunger. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Most of the tiny insects hovering around this apple tree are flies and solitary bees. They are visible on the enlargement. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Andrenidae on forsythia; one of the earliest bees to be active in the spring. It will build a nest, store food, lay eggs in a few weeks and die. The larvae will grow and remain dormant through the seasons until next spring. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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