Monarch on Echinacea
Monarch Butterfly Monarch's exploit many plants, not only milkweed. This specimen had just been laying eggs on milkweed leaves and had moved over to this Echinacea to stocky up on nectar. [...]
Crepuscular Carrots
Wild carrot (Daucus carota) after sunset
Squash Bee
Pollination A pair of bumble bees at work inside a male squash flower - hopefully they will later find themselves in a female flower and be able to put the pollen [...]
Scottish Fungus
Happened upon while wandering at Ardtornish on the west coast of Scotland - autumn 2016
Face-off …
Weevil Wasp Facing off on the flowers of a wild carrot plant with an ant. Who will back down first? I had some difficulty identifying this fellow but with a little external [...]
A Wet Summer’s Evening
Interesting Light in the Garden Photographers often sing the praises of "the golden hour" at sunset or "the blue hour" just after and they are worth making use of. However, I [...]
Monarch Butterfly
This Monarch butterfly prospected the garden in the early morning before settling for a while on this, yet to flower, golden rod stem. There are plenty of milkweed plants nearby so hopefully [...]
Pollinator in Flight
Brown-belted Bumble Bee Homing in on a rose ...
