🦇 Starting off #BatAppreciationWeek with some Myth-Busters! 🦇🖤
Challenge your bat knowledge and share with your peers. Some of this information may surprise you- bats aren't all that spooky, after all!
What is your favorite bat fact? 👇 Comment below!
#BatAppreciationWeek #BatFacts #PollinatorPal
Photo shows half of a Dandelion flowerhead on the left, with a hoverfly perched on the right hand side of it. Behind this is mainly green leaves.
#WildflowerHour One of my #FavouritePlants, photographed this week, is the Dandelion. It's a wonderful Spring flower, but it will flower again and again where it's mowed. It's bright and cheerful, and a great #pollinatorpal, too. This one is providing food for a nice little Hoverfly.
Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra) with #pollinatorpal yesterday in the Derbyshire Dales #DaisyFamily #WildflowerHour
Yellow Loosestrife Bee on Yellow Loosestrife
Yellow Loosetrife Bee being a #pollinatorpal on the aforementioned for #wildflowerhour
Red admiral butterfly with wings up, balanced on teasel
Red admiral butterfly with wings folded, showing bright colours on underwings, on purple teasel bloom
Drat, missed #WildflowerHour again! And this time I had a nice #PollinatorPal to share - a red admiral showing the lovely details on the underside of its wings, on teasel just beginning to flower
Pale green butterfly on big yellow Elecampane flower
Elecampane being a #PollinatorPal!
#Wildflowerhour
An orange and black striped clear winged marmalade hoverfly in nectarine on a pink and white bindweed flower with a yellowish green centre.
#wildflowerhour
Marmalade hoverfly. A #pollinatorpal for field bindweed.
A #WildflowerHour #PollinatorPal for Wild Angelica. A Pale-saddled Leucozona hoverfly seen along woodland edge on the Ogden Water Local Nature Reserve near Halifax
Gorgeous small purple flowers cover the cone on a buddleia bloom and a red admiral butterfly is perched on it, feeding on nectar
A red admiral butterfly seen from above perched on a purple flowered buddleia blossom. Wings are black fringed with orange bars at lower wing bottoms and across top wings diagonally and wing tips are spotted with white patches.
#wildflowerhour
Buddleia with a red admiral #pollinatorpal
Shrill carder bee being a #pollinatorpal on teasel, tufted vetch, common knapweed and large bindweed. #wildlfowerhour
