2022 Photograph, Maypop, Purple Passionflower, True Passionflower, Wild Apricot, or Wild Passion Vine with Bumblebee (Passiflora incarnata, Passiflora Family, Passifloraceae), Fairfax, Virginia, © 2022.
Bumblebees are highly attracted to Maypop flowers. The top of their thorax is usually coated with pollen which comes from the stamens that the bees rub against while getting nectar. |
