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A bee and a prickly pear bloom, Big Bend National Park

A bee and a prickly pear bloom, Big Bend National Park, Texas
Rebecca Latson
Monday, April 1, 2019

Spring (and winter) showers bring spring flowers out in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Prickly pear, cholla, pitaya and eagle claw cactus produce blooms with saturated shades of yellow, orange, magenta and red, becoming magnets for bees and other insects.

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