Pampas Grass

We have two large clumps of pampas grass in our front yard — each is over 8' tall, and equally broad. Just this past week they’ve come into bloom. One is a male plant, the other a female. This morning I noticed something that surprised me: the pampas grass flowers were full of honeybees — hundreds and hundreds of honeybees. The male plant (pollen-bearing) had far more bees than the female plant. I’d estimate that there was one bee for each four or five cubic centimeters of flower mass (and there are a couple of cubic meters of flower mass altogether).

I had no idea that bees were attracted to grass flowers!