Muscari racemosa

Deer (Odocoileus virginiana) play a big part in vegetation management at the CB. Those deer generally eat all the plants Crumby wants, and leave the plants Crumby cares not for, entirely alone. However, there is in life as we know it, always room for ambiguity. Consider Muscari racemosa. It is a rather pretty, introduced Eurasian weed. Yet the deer eat it anyway. This picture is the second bunch of flowers this Muscari racemosa has produced. The deer ate the first bunch.

Obviously, honey bees go to the flowers. Yet also a really tiny, under 5mm, native bee, an Osmia sp., also goes to the flowers. See. Room for ambiguity. Uh. Obviously, the little Osmia is not on the flowers when this picture was taken. It does however, get on the flowers. Trust Crumby.