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Maine Cranberry Digital Pictures by Charles Armstrong
UMaine Cooperative Extension's Cranberry Professional
These photos are free for anyone to use - permission is not required but giving credit is always appreciated.

Photo 1 - wild cranberry in Cherryfield, Maine
Photo 2 - cranberries floating in water at harvest time
Photo 3 - another of cranberries floating in water
Photo 4 - cranberries being harvested
Photo 5 - closeup of a pair of cranberries in Troy, Maine
Photo 6 - cranberry uprights with some remaining winter dormancy (late April)
Photo 7 - a cranberry upright as seen in late May
Photo 8 - cranberries that aren't quite ripe yet
Photo 9 - Harvesting cranberries at Pasture Lane Cranberries in Columbia Falls (2002)
Photo 10 - cranberries in the glow of the late afternoon sun
Note: Photos 2, 3 and 4 are from a harvest at County Road Cranberry Bogs in Columbia Falls, Maine


Maine Cranberry Blossoms & Pollinators
Photo 11 - a single cranberry blossom, resembling the head and neck of a crane; (specifically the sandhill crane) (In colonial times, 'cranberry' used to be written/spelled as 'craneberry')
Photo 12 - cranberry blossoms in Etna, Maine
Photo 13 - cranberry blossoms in Lincolnville Center, Maine
Photo 14 - a yellowjacket visiting a cranberry blossom
Photo 15 - a honeybee pollinating a cranberry blossom
Photo 16 - another honeybee at work
Photo 17 - some honeybee hives in Lincolnville Center, Maine
Photo 18 - a bumblebee pollinating a cranberry blossom
Photo 19 - cranberry blossoms and pinheads in Troy, Maine
Photo 20 - cranberry blossoms in Etna, Maine
(Pollinated by, among others: honey bees, native bumble bees, metallic bees, leafcutting bees,
various wasps and even yellowjackets!)


High Resolution Images (from 3 to 4 mb after you click)
NOTE: I'm afraid I don't have any high resolution versions of any of the other photos on this page.
Photo 1 || Photo 2 || Photo 3 || Photo 4
First 3 photos here are from 2007 in Jonesboro, Maine and the 4th photo is from a garden-sized
cranberry plot in Etna, Maine.

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contact Charles Armstrong at: charlesa@umext.maine.edu
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