Hello everyone, very good morning. I've been a bit absent due to illness, but I'm back with my adventures in contact with mother nature and her mysterious wonders. On my morning walks I always come across something interesting, and one of these times I stumbled upon several shrubs and some herbaceous plants lying on the street at the edge of a wall. It is certain that they were planted by the owners of the nearest house, I suppose, because they were so closely lined up, and they are not wild plants.

What caught my attention was that despite the fact that there were several flowering plants in that conglomerate, such as the Red Ixora, and other little yellow flowers that I don't know their name, the only flowering plant that had a great variety of insects fluttering over it, was this beautiful species. Here comes the part of the unknown that I did not manage to clarify and that I leave to the connoisseurs of floral species, or vegetables, so that they take me out of the curiosity. What is the name of this plant?

I consulted with many people and so far no one knew the name of this species, and as it is planted on a free sidewalk, not in a garden, it became more complex to find out its name. After asking around, some people told me it was a species of Salvia. I looked it up on the web by that name, and although I know common sage, neither that, nor the rest of the types of sage I found, matched this plant.Others told me that it was Dondiego de noche, but the Dondiego plant has more intense green leaves and they are elongated and even separate, although its flowers are similar. Anyway, it is not this plant either, this one has denser leaves and they sprout in clumps.

Finally I was told that it was Teresita, but I was sure that it was not because I have had in my garden many plants of Vinca Rosea or Teresita and it is far from resembling this species. So I aborted the inquiry of the name of the plant and I focused on its function, and the characteristic that caught me, why was it the only one that had insects fluttering on it?

Well, I will tell you the reason for this reaction... it turns out that for their food, and to comply with the natural process of pollination, there are flowering plants that are more attractive than others to insects, which are the ones who carry out this process. Let's remember that pollination is a vital cycle that our mother nature has so that plants can reproduce, since insects, when feeding on their nectar, transport pollen from one place to another, allowing plants to continue reproducing. For this reason, insects play a very important role in this natural process.

For their food, insects such as bees, wasps, butterflies, and some types of flies, attracted by the sweet aroma given off by the nectar of these flowers, choose them as food because they are a rich source of energy.This is the reason why the strong aroma of the nectar causes the sweet flowers to have so many visitors, who naturally go inside the flowers and take their food from there.

I would have loved to create a video, but I haven't mastered that editing process yet, so I tried to capture some images of some insects inside the flowers.It was some kind of black wasp, or I don't know if it was some kind of fly that is not the common one. There were a lot of them, and also some bees, for them I didn't want to get too close, sometimes they get annoyed when they invade their space. But I enjoyed watching this moment where the protagonist of the process, was the sweetest plant of the bunch.

I hope you enjoyed the tour, it will be until another time. Thanks for visiting my blog... I wish you a happy day.

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Why insects look for sweet flowers - Google}

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