Honeybee, pollen baskets full, nearing Rose Mallow
Apis mellifera
Honeybee · Brooklyn Botanic Garden · 26 July 2026
A honeybee coming in to land on a Rose Mallow in the July border, both hind legs already carrying visible pollen loads from earlier flowers. Rose Mallow is a native hibiscus of the eastern marshes, bred here into a deep crimson.
Each flower lasts only a single day, opening in the morning and closing for good by evening, so a bee working a stand of them is really working through a fresh set of flowers every visit. The pollen is enormous by bee standards, and a bee coated in it looks dusted with flour.
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