Nectar Collection

Insects / Bee
Humble bees; the wood bee (top) and earth bee (bottom)

Varieties of bats
Western naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia peronii 1, long-tongued nectar bat, Macroglossus minimus 2, northern ghost bat, Diclidurus albus 3, and Geoffroys rousette, Rousettus amplexicaudatus 4

Greyville, Durban, Natal Province, South Africa
First Avenue, Greyville, a suburb of Durban, Natal Province, South Africa. Date: circa 1905

Label for Kentucky Nectar, Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, distilled and bottled by General Distillers Corporation of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Date: circa 1940s

Language of flowers 1918
Women flowers flirting with bees and butterflies. Date: 1918

Bombus pascorum, common carder bee
A female Bombus pascorum, common carder bee visiting a plant in the wildlife garden

Nectaries from various flowers
Plate 8 from Le Regne Vegetal. Vol 4 Botanique Atlas 2 (1870). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Bombus sp. bumblebee visiting a flower
A bumblebee visiting an attractive garden flower, collecting nectar and adding pollen to the pollen sac shown here on its hind leg

The Knight & the Horn
On a mound in Gloucestershire thirsty travellers or hunters would be magically refreshed with nectar, until an ill mannerd knight neglected to return the drinking horn

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