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I read yesterday that individual forget-me-not flowers signal their nectar status to bees by fading the central colour from yellow to white when they have been pollinated.
Uh-oh, thinks the approaching bee, let's go next door, that one's still serving.
From Leif Bersweden "adventuring botanist" who posts on Twitter and has just published a highly-acclaimed book called Where the Wild Flowers Grow.
(Enlarging the image I could see that there are a few tiny insect larvae on the petals. What could they be?)
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