Mauve, Pink & Purple Flowers - On the Hunt for Day and Night Grazers & Pollinators, A Photographic Study; today it was in the Sun

Giant Allium are large globes of purple color in the late spring gardens.

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This was taken on Monday, August 3, 2015, British Columbia Day, observed on the first Monday in August, similar to civic holidays in other provinces and territories in Canada

I am not a biologist or botanist; merely an enthusiastic insect, flower and plant-lover – so, please correct me if I get anything a little wrong in the species description department. Please like, subscribe, and make comments in the section below. Is there anything you would like me to cover in my future work? Without your help, this work goes nowhere and means nothing. In addition, please feel free share on your social media and to copy and paste one, all, or part of any of my blogs/websites, anywhere you like.

1. I believe that the mauve (purely-blue) flowers being pollinated by the ants in the first photographs is: Crinum moorei, native to forested areas in South Africa. It prefers shade from hot afternoon sun and may go dormant during periods of excessive summer heat or drought. ~ Pacific Bulb Society

Images for blue crinum moorei

Crinum moorei Hook.f. is an accepted name

This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Crinum (family Amaryllidaceae).

(The Plant List is a working list of all known plant species. Version 1.1, released in September 2013, aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts). It does not include algae or fungi. Version 1.1 contains 1,293,685 scientific plant names of which 350,699 are accepted species names. It includes no vernacular or common plant names.

Collaboration between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden enabled the creation of The Plant List by combining multiple checklist datasets held by these institutions and other collaborators.

The Plant List provides the Accepted Latin name for most species, with links to all Synonyms by which that species has been known. It also includes Unresolved names for which the contributing data sources did not contain sufficient evidence to decide whether they were Accepted or Synonyms, or where there were conflicting opinions that could not be readily resolved.

A description of the content, creation and use of The Plant List follows.)

2. The pink flowers are Impatiens:

Images of Impatiens

Impatiens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impatiens

Impatiens /ɪmˈpeɪʃəns/ is a genus of about 850 to 1,000 species of flowering plants, widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere and the tropics.

3. Camilla Rose

Images for camilla rose flower

Camellia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Some of the pollinating species observed today included Ants, Bumble Bees, Domestic European Honey Bees, Butter Fly, Flies^a, Mason Bees^b and Wasps^c

E-Fauna BC – Atlas of Wildlife of British Columbia

Ants – (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) The Ants of British Columbia are perhaps the most successful of all extant insects. The Ants of British Columbia by Dr. Robert J. Higgins, Department of Biological Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, 1250 Western Avenue, Williams Lake, BC, V2G 1H7, Canada

European fire ant (Myrmica rubra) is an invasive species in British Columbia and thus document the presence of this ant in British Columbia.

“Unfortunately it likes to live in lawns and gardens. It can make standing on grass impossible as nests often form at densities greater than 1 per square metre. For example, I counted 4 nests within 1 sq metre in the backyard of one North Vancouver, BC - (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) residence in June of 2011.” ~ Dr. Robert J. Higgins

Ants

• YouTube Video - Empire of the Desert Ants (58.40 minutes) - BBC Natural World 2011
• YouTube Video - Lord of the Ants (52:52 minutes) - PBS
  

Bees – records of and photographs of 35 species on this day I saw:

• Bumble Bee - Family: Apidae - Bombus bifarius Cresson, 1878
• European Honey Bee Family: Apidae - Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758
  

Butter Flies

Flies^a -

• Western Red Damsel - Family: Coenagrionidae - Amphiagrion abbreviatum
• Mayfly - Family: Baetidae - Callibaetis ferrugineus (Walsh, 1862)
  

Mason Bees^b
Wasps^c

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Volunteer as a Citizen Scientist for E-Fauna BC: Electronic Atlas of the Fauna of British Columbia [www.efauna.bc.ca]. Citizen science or, as geographers call it, volunteered geographic information (VGI) is a growing area in biodiversity documentation. Citizen scientists are now collecting fundamental and significant biological data that can be added to our biodiversity knowledge base. This sort of volunteered geographic information can aid scientists and can lead to comprehensive databases of information that result in greater understanding of species and their habitats, and can ultimately lead to better protection and management efforts.
Many people don't know this, but just in the insect invertebrates, there are over thousands of species of plant grazing insects and many more plant pollinating insects in British Columbia.
In fact, the largest groups of organisms in the world are insects and, while insects are invertebrates, they are such a large group that Biodiversity of British Columbia have given them their own section in E-Fauna BC. In this section, they provide introductions to the orders and families of insects found in BC, along with keys to the families. These introductions are primarily extracted from the three-volume book-in-progress by Geoff Scudder and Rob Cannings: The Insect Families of British Columbia. The authors have kindly provided this manuscript to Biodiversity of British Columbia so they can bring their work online. Additional insect introductions have been provided by Peter Belton (Mosquitoes), Crispin Guppy (Butterflies), Staffan Lindgren (Ants), and Rob Vandermoor (Moths). Browse the introductions to learn more about this diverse group. Visit the E-Fauna insect photo gallery.
See also, Okanagan Wildlife Photography
See also, Biodiversity of British Columbia [http://ibis.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/]

• E-Fauna (Animals) BC: Electronic Atlas of the Wildlife of British Columbia (Photo Gallery) In this section we provide introductions to the wildlife groups of British Columbia. Use the menu below to access introductions on mammals, fish, insects, crustaceans, sea anemones and more.
  
• E-Flora (Plants) BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia (Photo Gallery) E-Flora BC is a biogeographic atlas of the vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, algae, fungi and slime molds of British Columbia. Use the search features to access our species pages. View a sample page.
  

“The Biodiversity of BC web site provides an introduction to biodiversity in British Columbia--what it is and how it is influenced. It is also a portal to the two biogeographic atlases of the province: E-Flora BC and E-Fauna BC. You can use the atlases to search for wild species in the province. Learn what they look like and where they are found.
You can help:

• E-Fauna BC (About Animals) [http://efauna.bc.ca/] and,
  
• E-Flora BC (About Plants) [http://eflora.bc.ca/]
  

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You may notice that some of my photographic studies and slideshows are quite dim. I prefer taking photographs at dawn, dusk or at night without artificial light; or when it is wet. Hopefully, you will also see something that you have never seen before.

This is the 9^th in my series of photographic slideshows for 2015 taken in and around Lynn Valley, Lower Lynn and North and West Vancouver, on Vancouver, Canada's North Shore; and in Mission, Canada:

9. Mauve, Pink & Purple Flowers - On the Hunt for Day and Night Grazers & Pollinators, A Photographic Study in the Sun

8. Honeysuckle & Lilacs - On the Hunt for Day and Night Pollinators & Grazers, A Photographic Study in the Rain (3:21 minutes), Mission, BC, Canada – Published on YouTube Tuesday, July 29, 2015

7. Echinacea & Rudbeckia - On the Hunt for Day and Night Pollinators (4:46 minutes), Keith Road West & Lonsdale Avenue, Victoria Park, North Vancouver, BC, Canada – Published on YouTube Tuesday, July 21, 2015 Map

6. Lilies Slideshow (4:05 minutes), North Vancouver, BC, Canada – Posted on July 18, 2015

5. Orange & Wet Day (2:36 minutes), North Vancouver, BC, Canada – Posted on Saturday, July 11, 2015

4. Begonia Slide Show (2:15 minutes), North Vancouver, BC, Canada – Posted on Tuesday, June 2, 2015

3. Passion Flowers at Dusk (3:01 minutes),- My Passion Flowers are up, in full bloom, and very beautiful, North Vancouver, BC, Canada – Posted on Wednesday, June 3, 2015

2. Spring Rhapsody – A Photographic Study and Slideshow - Crickmay Park Flower Garden in the Spring (Crickmay Park (next to Harry Jerome Recreation Centre), 23rd Street & Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, BC, Canada – Posted on Tuesday, June 2, 2015

1. Rhododendron Bush - A Photographic Study and Slideshow - Rhododendron Bushes in and around North Vancouver, BC, Canada – Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2015

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