Early Winter Cress
Barbarea verna

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Image copyright 2002, David L. Green
Hemingway, South Carolina    April 29, 2002
Unidentified solitary bee

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Image copyright 2002, David L. Green
Hemingway, South Carolina

A very rapidly moving and spooky megachild bee was apparently the main pollinator for this species. It was not possible to photograph it.

Barbarea is a favored larval food for the salt marsh moth,
life cycle extensively photographed...

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