A Pollinator of the Black Jack flower – Critter 38

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

A couple years ago, I saw blooming of Black Jack flower on the river banks of our neighborhood.



Image 1- A common pollinator of the Black Jack flower


In addition to Black Jack, the flower with scientific name Bidens pilosa, has many common names such as cobblers pegs, hitch hikers, farmer's friends, Spanish needle and Beggarticks.


Unfortunately, It seems the flowers disappeared from the river banks for this year, luckily, we have observed in our neighborhood. They are planted as a home garden flower.


Interestingly, we may find this flower blooming in many tropical and subtropical countries around the world, spreading from its origin areas of South America.



Image 2- Wild Black Jack flowers


There are plenty of pollinators for Black Jack flowers, some of major pollinators Bees, Butterflies, Moth and Syrphid (Diptera).


Based on GoogleID, The pollinator on image 1 and image 3 is Bumbblebee. It is powerful pollinator for many plants.



Image 3- A pollinator on the Black Jack flower


Have you seen Black Jack flowers in your areas?


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18 comments:

  1. I think I have seen these flowers somewhere before

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  2. ...it's native to tropical America, that rules it out here.

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  4. Lot of interesting info about such particular flower. I've never seen it.
    Nice post!

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  5. I haven't seen these but love seeing the bees!!!

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  6. I haven't seen them before.

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  7. Lovely and colorful
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    1. love it .....

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  8. The flowers are beautiful, I have not seen them.
    I wish you a nice weekend.

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  9. Omg! This is so beeautifult!
    I love these photos and your post
    Thanks for sharing!

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    1. nature always beautiful...

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  10. Lovely the pretty flowers, the bees look happy there. Great photos. Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Take care, have a great Memorial Day weekend. PS, thank you for leaving me a comment.

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  11. These pretty flowers look a lot like the Tridax Daisy we often see around here. Beautiful shots of the pollinators in action.

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    1. new for me about Tridax....

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