Have I discovered something scientifically significant, I wonder? Is it normal for a bee to feed from BEHIND a flower?
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This afternoon while in my garden and armed only with my iPhone to take pictures for 
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Has he perhaps adapted through some fluke of nature to inserting his probe through the back of the flower? Never once did he enter a flower like all the other bees I see on these flowers. Has anyone ever seen anything like this? My search on the web for anything about it came up empty!
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Not only is this interesting from the standpoint of the bee, but what about the bee as a pollinator? He was not collecting pollen on these feedings! In my mind the bee has always been an important pollinator, so although these flowers are invasive, I control them in a section of my garden which separates the lawn from a natural area of Florida woodland, because I like to think I am helping the pollinators.
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Does anyone have any clues about this odd bee behavior? I'd love to hear from you if you have an explanation for this!
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