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  • A honeybee (Apis mellifera) struggles, temporarily caught on sticky milkweed pollinium (pollen-containing structure), with additional pollinia stuck on other feet.
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  • Honeybee (Apis mellifera) temporarily caught on sticky milkweed pollinia (pollen containing structure).
    milkweed_pollinia_bee-3874.jpg
  • Fly caught by the sticky pollinia, or pollen containing structures, of milkweed flowers. Left rear foot is broken off where left middle leg is still caught. Both front feet are also trapped.
    pollinia_trapped_fly-15714.jpg
  • Obscure Plant Bug (Plagiognathus obscurus), taking advantage of a dead fly. The fly was trapped by the milkweed flower's pollinia (sticky pollen containing structures), and beheaded by a Harvestman spider which fed on it just prior to the Obscure Plant Bug's visit.
    obscure_plant_bug-15883.jpg
  • Eastern Daddy longlegs (Leiobunum sp), spider feeding on a fly trapped on the  pollinia of milkweed flowers (Asclepias syriaca).
    harvestman_fly-15834.jpg
  • Pollen covered Bumble Bee (Bombus spp.) on milkweed flower
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  • Bumble Bee (Bombus spp.) on milkweed flower
    bumble_bee-9123.jpg
  • Brown Daddy-longlegs (Opiliones order) spider that lost it's leg to the sticky Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) pollinia that trapped it's front right leg (seen hanging in the lower right corner of the image). The spider has already lost it's third left leg.
    harvestman_pollinia_trap-15736.jpg