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Jan Karpíšek (born 1981, Czech Republic) – Places his drawings inside beehives, allowing bees to gnaw off parts of the drawings or alter the shape of the paper or canvas. This includes works such as portraits of controversial politicians like Trump, Putin, Babiš or Erdogan, where the bees destroy parts of their faces, adding a level of ...
Flowers have a white-to-lavender hue with purple specks and invite bumblebees, native bees, and honey bees to the garden. Virginia Mountain Mint Virginia mountain mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum ...
Many different types of bees (e.g., honeybees, mason bees, and miner bees), flies (e.g., bee-flies and syrphids), and butterflies (e.g., skippers) pollinate the flowers of hairy wood mint. [4] Many of these pollinators pollinate the hairy wood mint because they get a nectar reward, although some are after the pollen itself.
Bees look for flowers that have brightly colored petals, have a sweet or minty fragrance, are symmetrical, bloom in the daytime, and offer lots of pollen and nectar on which to feed.
Monarda is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. [3] The genus is endemic to North America. [2] [4] Common names include bergamot, bee balm, horsemint, and oswego tea, the first being inspired by the fragrance of the leaves, which is reminiscent of bergamot orange (Citrus bergamia).
Flower's appearance in visible, UVA, and NIR spectrums. The UV nectar guides may help attract bees. Glechoma hederacea is an aromatic, perennial, evergreen creeper of the mint family Lamiaceae. It is commonly known as ground-ivy, gill-over-the-ground, [2] creeping charlie, alehoof, tunhoof, catsfoot, field balm, and run-away-robin. [2]
Monarda fistulosa, the wild bergamot or bee balm, [3] is a wildflower in the mint family Lamiaceae, widespread and abundant as a native plant in much of North America. [4] This plant, with showy summer-blooming pink to lavender flowers, is often used as a honey plant, medicinal plant, and garden ornamental. [5]
Agastache cana, more commonly known as the mosquito plant, Texas hummingbird mint, and double bubble mint, is a hardy perennial belonging to the genus Agastache (pronounced / ˌ æ ɡ ə ˈ s t ɑː k iː /). The genus name Agastache is derived from the Greek word meaning "a lot of", and stachy, meaning "spike", which refers to the flower's 12 ...