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Kentucky Color - Trumpet Vine Feast

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By Billy Joe Fudge

Trumpet Vine is well known in many circles as Hummingbird Vine. That name is well deserved for it seems to bloom much of the summer and provide nectar for hummingbirds which visit its bright, orange flowers hour after hour, day after day.

However, the fruit sweats a sweetish, saltish concoction which flies and bees of all sorts are continually harvesting. Each individual is fighting for space and sometimes the fight turns deadly when smaller Sweat Bees become part of the harvest, as evidenced in the photo, to wind up in the wasps nest for sustenance for their babies in the larvae stage. - Billy Joe Fudge




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Kentucky Color - Trumpet Vine Feast



2012-07-29 - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge. The fruit of the trumpet vine sweats a sweetish, saltish concoction which flies and bees of all sorts are continually harvesting. Each individual is fighting for space and sometimes the fight turns deadly when smaller Sweat Bees become part of the harvest, as evidenced in the photo, to wind up in the wasps nest for sustenance for their babies in the larvae stage. -Billy Joe Fudge
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