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The and the poisonous plant. A Common Carder visiting a Woody (a.k.a. ) flower at Brandon Marsh last month. Adapted for buzz pollination, the flower releases pollen when a visiting Bee vibrates her wing muscles at just the right frequency.

Pollination takes place as gather pollen to feed their larvae. The resulting berries are toxic to us, but provide food for birds.

A Common Carder Bee hanging from a Wood Nightshade flower. The Bee, a type of Bumblebee, is very fluffy with lots of yellowish hairs on her thorax. Her head, with its large compound eyes, and jaws which appear to be clamped on to the flower, are black, as are the legs and what we can see of the abdomen. A large pollen basket can be seen on the hindmost leg on side of the Bee that we can see. The flower hangs from the end of a purplish stem. It's five, pointed petals, which curl upwards, are purple, but the stamens descending from the middle of the flower, which are fused together into a cone, are a deep yellow colour.
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