Honeybee Visits Crabapple Blossoms
by Catherine Sherman
Title
Honeybee Visits Crabapple Blossoms
Artist
Catherine Sherman
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Photograph - Photography Painterly
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"Honeybee Visits Crabapple Blossoms" by Catherine Sherman.
The sweet fragrance of crabapple blossoms attracts a honeybee that visit the flowers for nectar and pollen. With rare exceptions, apple trees can't self pollinate so they need bees and other pollinating insects to set fruit.
The apple (malus), is a genus of about 30 to 55 species of small deciduous trees and shrubs in the rose family (Rosaceae), including the domesticated orchard apple (M. domestica). The other species are generally known as crabapples, crab apples, crabs, or wild apples.
In additional to being beautiful ornamental plants, crab apples are used as food plants by the larvae of a large number of butterflies and moths, are used as rootstock for other species of apple trees and provide pectin for cooking and food for animals.
My grandmother used to can the larger types of crabapples as whole fruit. I sure miss her and her bountiful garden.
Featured in "Philanthropic Artists For A Cause" group (04/09/2015); "Visions of Spring" group (04/09/2015); "Beauty" group (04/10/2015)
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April 7th, 2015
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