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Dandelion with butterfly and bee. A spring blessing for pollinators.

Honey bee on a gazania #bee #bees #honeybee #yellow #coloraday #yellowthu #macro #macrophotography #nature #photography #photosky #bloomscrolling #flowersky #bloomsky #bugsky #insects #flowers #pollinators #insectthursday #pollinatorpals #macromonday #insect #eastcoastkin
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Fleabane with a couple of #pollinatorpals

Eastern calligrapher on a treasure flower #bugsky #bug #flower #fly #macro #insectphotography #hoverfly #photography #insects #insectsthursday #insect #macromonday #flowersky #inverts #invertebrates #bugs #blooms #pollinators #pollinatorpals #nature #wildlife #flowers #eastcoastkin

Monarch butterfly on a red zinnia #bugsky #butterflies #macro #butterflysky #insects #flowers #pollinators #nature #photography #insectthursday #fritillary #pollinatorpals #butterflyweek #wildlife #insect #macromonday #bloomscrolling #butterfly #eastcoastkin #zinnia
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A cluster of rather ragged flowers with extremely thin petals. On it sits a large hoverfly with bold orange markings on a largely dark body.

From Slimbridge on Friday - Hemp Agrimony with one of its #PollinatorPals - a drone fly. Not sure what secies of fly, there are rather a lot of them. #WildflowerHour

Great spangled fritillary butterfly on a coneflower #nymphalidae #bugsky #butterflies #butterfly #macro #butterflysky #insects #flowers #pollinators #nature #photography #insectthursday #fritillary #pollinatorpals #butterflyweek #wildlife #insect #macromonday #bloomscrolling #eastcoastkin
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Bumblebee in flight next to a pink steeplebush #bumblebee #bugsky #steeplebush #macro #insects #flowers #pollinators #nature #photography #insectthursday #pollinatorpals #wildlife #insect #bee #bees #macromonday #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #eastcoastkin

An all-yellow daisy-shaped flower with a small bee feeding on it.

We were asked for photos of the #DaisyFamily and we're still within mandatory Fleabane season so there was never any doubt what species I was going to hunt for. Common Fleabane and one of its #PollinatorPals at Rivermead in Swindon earlier in the week while dragonfly-hunting. #WildflowerHour

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social - A week late, but I'm just going through my 2025's new orchid species photos, & found this. Missed it earlier. Red Helleborine plus #pollinatorpals on a wonderful BBOT visit in Buckinghamshire. Can anyone ID the tiny bee(??)? Plus a better image of a flower.

A snail with a brown-ringed white shell sticks to the leaf in a field

A red dragonfly (a ruddy darter?) rests on a wooden fence board

A bumblebee and what appears to be a leaf-cutter bee (?) flying towards a newly opened sunflower head

A two-horned tree hopper (?) briefly landed on the leaf of a hosta

Butterflies, bees, dragonflies, snails and more

My three-day weekend was filled with sightings of all kinds of #invertebrates

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Insect that looks a but like a wasp on a pink and white flower.

I'm ridiculously late for #wildflowerhour but here's a critter on hemp agrimony, West Sussex, on Saturday. #PollinatorPals

The theme for yesterday's #WildFlowerHour was #PollinatorPals - check the tag for some great examples of pollinators in action, from @wildflowerhour.bsky.social, and if you've enjoyed watching pollinators have a go at counting them with a PoMS FIT Count ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts

Late but…

The day-flying Forester moth (Adscita statices) on Salad Burnet (Poterium sanguisorba) at end of May, in Gloucestershire

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#WildflowerHour #PollinatorPals Too late, but those near matching yellows are rather perfect...
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Here's a bee enjoying some nectar from a Geranium in the garden
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Clockwise from top-left: Corn Cockle, Self Heal, Common Knapweed, Common Daisy, Melancholy Thistle, Cornflower, Rosebay Willowherb, Ox-eye Daisy, Devil’s-bit Scabious

Pollinators on Corn Marigold. clockwise from top-left: Grey-banded Mining-bee, Double-square Spot, Lasioglossum sp. Fagisyrphus cincta, Eristalis pertinax, Heliophilus pendulus, Eristalis arbustorum, Episyrphus balteatus.

Four-banded Bee-grabber on Common Ragwort.

Hoverfly Fagisyrphus cincta on Corn Chamomile.

Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour
Including a few blooms with wee beasties for the #PollinatorPals challenge.
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Female Ferdinandea cuprea.

Male Melanostoma scalare

Female Pipiza austriaca.

Female Syrphus ribesii.

Another four species of hoverfly on Devil's Bit Scabious, Gamlingay Wood LNR, S. Cambridgeshire.
Ferdinandea cuprea, Melanostoma scalare, Pipiza austriaca and Syrphus ribesii.
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Hornet Mimic Hoverfly on Knapweed for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #PollinatorPals

It’s been wonderful seeing your finds for the #PollinatorPals challenge, and a welcome reminder at how important our wildflowers are for sustaining them! Keep an eye out for the next challenge & see you all again next Sunday!

My final #pollinatorpals are on Hemp Agrimony and Red Valerian.
Chalkhill Blue butterflies in attendance (always delightful), as well as Honeybee and a striking fly (possibly Stomorhina Lunata?).
And knapweed with Red-tailed Bumblebees.
Such a great challenge this week - thank you #wildflowerhour

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Going with moon carrot ( Seseli libanotis) with lady bird, Anchusa arvenis with an unidentified beetle, skullcap and yellow bird's-nest setting fruit. For #wildflowerhour #pollinatorpals @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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For #WildflowerHour here are some #PollinatorPals on a Ragwort plant in my garden 💛Spotted the scorpion fly a few weeks back and the hoverfly was a hour or so ago 😀

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A hoverfly on yellow flowers.

A ladybird and a fly on pale pink yarrow flowers.

A large red-tailed bumblebee on a small purple thistle.

A bumblebee on a thistle.

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Meadow Brown on Field Scabious, Barnack Hills & Holes NNR.
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