HONEYBEE ATTRACTOR

It's Flower Friday and here's a giant sunflower (Helianthus sp.) to greet you this morning.
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I was in the middle of a whole field of these beauties and every honeybee within a quarter mile was here as well.  EVERY seedhead had at least one bee on it and there were thousands of seedheads.
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Sunflowers belong to the Family Asteraceae (the old Compositae Family) and consist of many separate flowers in a single seedhead which non-biologists presume to be a single flower. The dark center, or disk flowers, each produce only a single seed which we know as sunflower seeds. Around the outside of the disc flowers are the yellow ray flowers. Again, each a separate flower which most people presume to be flower petals, but they are not.
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Thus endeth the botany lesson for the day.
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