White crab spider lurks in the centre of a Vinca major flower (blue-lilac periwinkle) having succssfully grabbed an unsuspecting (and very small) bee. The bees tiny pollen bags are full... won't be needed now. Which is sad. But spiders have to eat too and these crab spiders are excellent hunters.
A late contribution to #InsectThursday - a small bee and an arachnid - double fun.
Say hello to my new crazy bee visitor. I’d like a pint of what she’s on!
She’s a Female, Hairy footed bee 🐝 One of the first solitary bees to emerge from her winter slumber. So glad to be able to provide her with nectar from my Pulmonaria 🌸🌿
#InsectThursday #bees #solitarybees #hairyfootedbee
A yellowjacket wasp flies through a cloud of white azalea blossoms.
A yellowjacket flies through a cloud of white #azalea blossoms.
#InsectThursday #Insects #Wasps #InFlight #ECK #Pollinators #Spring #ColorADay #YellowThu #Flowers #NaturePhotography
Foto macro colorida horizontal de um pequeno louva-a-deus verde pousado de cabeça para baixo na parte de baixo de uma folha de manjericão, que olha pra mim quando fiz a foto. A imagem é predominantemente verde, com fundo desfocado de folhagem também verde. Foto feita por mim domingo na Serra da Mantiqueira, Brasil 🇧🇷 Ordem Mantodea Em inglês: praying mantis
Fui pegar manjericão pra botar no macarrão e olha só quem tava lá 😍🤏🏽
@savcavalcante.bsky.social você conhece esse? Ele é pequeno assim mesmo ou ainda vai crescer? Tantas perguntas…
#InsectThursday #bugsky
A trio of Red-banded Hairstreak butterflies; therefore an official kaleidoscope of butterflies for #InsectThursday 🧡
#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies🦋
A bee with crossed legs and blurred wings slumped over a white petal of a lemon blossom. Yellow pistil, pink buds, green stems and leaves, blue sky.
#InsectThursday #YellowThu #bees #pollinators #flowers #naturephotography #photography 📷🍋🐝
A macro close-up photo of a ladybug on the flaxen white strands of a flower gone to seed. Crawling past on her right side is an ant. The background is blurred greens.
#InsectThursday:
In Gilroy, California, last Saturday.
"Coming through."
A cluster of ant eggs is sitting on a leaf and being hastily tended to by several odorous house ant workers (Tapinoma sessile)
#insectthursday
Odorous house #ant workers and eggs - Tapinoma sessile
(Shot in Cincinnati 3-21-26) 🪳🪲🐜 #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #animal #invert #insect #bug #bugsky #ento
A monarch among green leaves and red berries. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. February 2026. At a community track and field surrounded by greenery
Butterflies are special. Just by being pretty and flitting about, they lift our spirits up! 🦋 This one is doubly special - it is a monarch on its migratory journey. From last month.
#insectthursday
A Small Quaker (Orthosia cruda) moth on a dandelion.
A Small Quaker moth on a #dandelion. Part of a recent set of shots taken about a week ago.
#yellow #wildflowers #bloomscrolling #moths #insectthursday #colouraday #yellowthu #teammoth
If you're into wildlife gardening and #bees, this is a must-see. It's both captivating and inspiring.
#wildlifegarden #bugsky #nature #gardening #pollinators #insectthursday #wildlife
A Bumblebee hangs on to bury its head in a tiny purple bloom next to other pink and mauve bell-shaped flowers by a path. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro
The same Bumblebee with yellow and black fuzzy striped back and protruding gassing extracts itself from the flower to move on to another bloom. It is framed agains the green leaves of the plant. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro
Really getting into it. A Bumblebee buries its head in a tiny bloom. It was zipping from one flower to the other so quickly that it was hard to get a decent shot. 🐝🌱
#InsectThursday #Bloomscrolling #BugSky #UKWildlife #Gardening #EastCoastKin
Beautiful Luna Moths only live for one week; they find a mate quickly and hope to reproduce.
#InsectThursday
#insect
#lunamoth
#naturephotography
@worldwildlife.bsky.social
📸 Garrett Krause photography
Beautifully taken Janet, my goodness 🤩👌🏼
Flowers always know the most perfect colors to put together.
And the teeniest insects know where to shelter from a storm.
#ColorADay #YellowThu
#Macro #MacroPhotography
#Bloomscrolling
#ECK
#photography
#InsectThursday
Macro shot of the center of a deep burgundy lily with a brilliant yellow center. The stamens have dark ends and are gently curling toward the inner flower. The petals of the flower are beaded with rain. In the deep center of the flower is a tiny insect, maybe an ant, taking shelter from the rain.
Flowers always know the most perfect colors to put together.
And the teeniest insects know where to shelter from a storm.
#ColorADay #YellowThu
#Macro #MacroPhotography
#Bloomscrolling
#ECK
#photography
#InsectThursday
Beautiful!
Happy #InsectThursday evening Cristian! 🙏😊🦋🌳🦋🕊
Only thing better than season’s 1st pollen-covered #bee butts is ants out too—fueling up to spread my eliasomes (seed dispersal method used by fave #NativePlants like Trillium, Dicentra cucullaria, Asarum canadense, etc.). Work, my pretties!
#gardening #Invertebrates #pollinators #InsectThursday 🌱
A black carpenter bee exploring the beauty of a flower that has white petals, yellow filaments and orange tips (anthers) which together are called “stamens”.
Bee busy says the Carpenter bee;
Just follow the sun!
#insectthursday #bees #flowersonfriday
Good evening Hope !🌺🌙
Happy #InsectThursday !🦋
A long winged butterfly that is mostly black with red and white bold markings. It is sitting on very small yellow and orange flowers.
Postman Butterfly Heliconius resting on small colorful flowers. Costa Rica
#nature #photography #insectthursday #butterfly #bloomscrolling
Close-up of black with yellow bumblebee facing camera while exiting a golden poppy flower. There is a buttercup flower just beyond them and they are in a green grassy area.
Female Pyrobombus gathering pollen in California Poppy this week near Sonoma Coast for #InsectThursday. 💚
#NativeBees #NativePlants #Pollinators #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷🌱
A plant with a tall stem, leaves, and many red flowers at the top. On the tip of one of the leaves, a ladybug. 📸: Hans.
Honey bee on purple crocus
A honey bee, making the most of a slightly weather beaten crocus 🌱🐝
#InsectThursday #Bloomscrolling #BugSky #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin
Survival begins with instinct.
In nature, nothing moves without purpose.
Every instinct matters. Every moment counts.
A different kind of survival story unfolds this week.
🌸🐝🌺🍀🌸🐝🌺🍀🌸🐝🌺🍀🌸🐝🌺
#InsectThursday #JoyTrain #SurvivalInstinct
#FlowersOnFriday #SaveTheBees #ConsciousPlanet
More from my garden this afternoon
German Wasp
Tapered drone fly
And Hoverfly (Eupeodes luniger)
#InsectThursday
A small pale blue butterfly with white edging to the wings. It has black and white striped antennae with black ends. it's perched on a damaged Ivy leaf which is a shiny dark green.
My first Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus) of the year just now in the garden. Just in time for #InsectThursday!
#inverts #UKWildlife #iRecorded @upperthames.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Fabricius’ Nomad bee in my garden this afternoon (If I have correctly identified it)
#InsectThursday
#Bees
#Wildlife
