Hello everybody and welcome to Episode 13 of What’s in that Hole?, a fun series I’m writing for my blog.
In the last episode, we returned to Tucson and looked at a cactus hole. This time, we stay in Tucson but look at a few holes on a much smaller scale.
The holes
We’ve got quite a few holes today, but they all look something like this:
Today’s hole.
Now, to be fair, there’s nothing in that hole. But stay with me.
That hole belongs to a flower. Specifically, it’s the opening of a flower on a zebra aloe in my front yard.
It’s a flower!
Here’s what the aloe + flowers look like from a bit further away:
A clump of zebra aloe.
Look at all those flowers!
The occupant
Now that we know what the holes are, here’s one of the photos I got with something in one of them:
What is it?
Looks interesting. Do you know what it is?
It’s a bee butt!
Here’s the bee as it backed out of the flower:
It’s a bee!
So the answer to “what’s in that hole?” this time around is: bees! They’re going deep into the aloe flowers to get to the pollen.
In the pic below, there are two more bees having a go at the aloe pollen. Check out all the pollen stuck to the leg of the bee on the left (it’s that orange stuff around the knee)!
Legs covered in pollen.
Bonus: more bees in holes!
There were plenty of bees buzzing around, so I have a few more photos of bee butts poking out of aloe flowers to share with you. Here they are:
Bee butt.
Bee!
Bee butt.
Bee!
Bee butt.
Bee!
Okay, time to stop taking photos. Don’t need the bees getting angry with me.
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