Caring for Pollinators - Bundesamt für Naturschutz

Roubik Small bees have a big job
A pair of male Euglossa igniventris (Neotropical orchid bees)
engaged in brushing odors from the flowering bucket orchid,
Coryanthes in central Panama.
Orchid bees are wonderful
indicators
A natural forest is a reserve for pollinators. A view of the
disappearing rain forest from Central Panama, seen from atop Cerro
Bruja at 700 m elevation. The Atlantic Ocean, and the remaining
‘biological corridor’ between Central and South America, lies
between the observer and the ocean, at 13 km distance.
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