tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870114610925132512.post386930463471033061..comments2024-03-28T07:26:34.701+00:00Comments on Urban Pollinators: More on feeding preferencesUrban Pollinators adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338159566996307380noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870114610925132512.post-45083844522546331612012-09-06T11:52:02.921+01:002012-09-06T11:52:02.921+01:00Intersting. We definitly see more hoverflies on th...Intersting. We definitly see more hoverflies on the flowers which are quite open and accessible, often they are yellow as well. Hoverflies also like the Umbellifer flowers such as fennel (Foeniculum vulgare). Bees like the Compositae flowers and the ones which have more tubular flowers such as in the families Lamiaceae, Boraginaecae and Scrophulariaceae.<br />I have a Coreopsis in my allotment with yellow flowers and it is mainly visited by bee mimic flies. I don`t really see other pollinators on these flowers. The plant the bees like most in my allotment is Phacelia, always covered in honeybees and bumblebees. Earlier in the year I have seen lots of little solitary bees in (and swarming around) the flowers of Campanula rotundifolia (harebell. There was not a lot else visiting, just these small solitary bees. Reading teamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15632997670738539741noreply@blogger.com