Signed, Sealed and Delivered

Jun 26, 2009

A trip today to Marin County, with a side trip to the Marshall Post Office in Marshall,  yielded a triple bonus. 

A bumble bee, a honey bee, and a syrphid or flower fly all were nectaring flowers on the post office grounds, located right across from a restaurant and marina we were visiting.

They must have known it was National Pollinator Week. They were all sharing the same space.

"Insect pollinators, including honey bees, pollinate products amounting to $20 billion annually in the United States alone,"  say officials with the National Pollinator Partnership.

About 80 percent of the world's depend on pollination. And almost all pollinators are insects.

What better way to close out National Pollinator Week, which ends June 28, with photos of three pollinators? These images were captured right outside the tiny postage-sized Marshall Post Office. 

National Pollinator Week certainly has our stamp of approval.  

Signed, sealed and delivered.


By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Author - Communications specialist

Attached Images:

A BUMBLE BEE nectars flowers on the grounds of the Marshall (Calif.) Post Office in Marin County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bumble Bee

A HONEY BEE nectars flowers on the grounds of the Marshall (Calif.) Post Office in Marin County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey Bees

A SYRPHID FLY, aka flower fly or hover fly, nectars flowers on the grounds of the Marshall (Calif.) Post Office in Marin County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Syrphid Fly