A black-tailed bumble bee relaxing on a Scabiosa columbaria ‘Giga Silver’. Have a happy #SummerSolstice2023 . #mygarden #InsectWeek23 #GardeningTwitter
Final day of #insectweek23 . Here is a drawing of my favourite beetle, the common red soldier beetle. #InsectWeek #insects #drawing #biodiversity #art #nature #glasgow #TwitterNatureCommunity #wildlife #beetles
Something that might be of use to all the #InsectWeek23 enthusiasts out there.
By far, our most popular article ever published - it describes a newly developed LED lamp set for using in the field that is lightweight, handy, robust, and energy efficient: doi.org/10.3897/nl.40.…
A fuzzy little bee on a cistus flower for #MacroMonday and #MagentaMonday 🥰🌺❤️🐝 #Mondayvibes #bees #pollinators #InsectWeek23 #GardeningTwitter #MondayMotivation 🥰🌺❤️🐝🌺
Tiger beetle, Cicindela hybrida. Dorsal view of the most beautiful scutellum ever🥰 All colors, transparent scales and hairs, just beautiful!
#cicindelidae #cicindela #cicindela hybrida #tigerbeetle #beetle #coleoptera #insects #entomology #emtomology #insectweek #insectweek 23…
Well, I wasn’t expecting to see this gorgeous beauty on the way home! A Lime Hawk Moth, Mimas tiliae. What a lovely surprise and laying eggs too! #InsectWeek #InsectWeek 23
A female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail #butterfly , with the characteristic blue scaling on the top of the hindwing, sunning one recent morning, high up in a tree in a #nature park west of #OrlandoFL . #Butterflies #ThePhotoHour #PollinatorWeek #InsectWeek #InsectWeek 23 #pollinators
Insects can live in the most unlikely places if you just give them a bit of green space. This wasp Pseudomalus auratus, was seen on a green wall by New Street station, Birmingham #InsectWeek23
Super #honeybee ..wonderful little pollinator on a #beefriendlyflower .
Perennial Geranium / Cranesbill
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#nature #wildlife #bees #photography
#pollinators #nature photography
#flowers #nature lovers .. 🐝💜🕊
Our stripey friends are amongst us!
Good numbers of Cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae) larvae covering our Ragwort plants at the head of the Valley yesterday. Current size: small to tiny. 😍
#MothsMatter #InsectWeek #InsectWeek 23
The Eastern Amberwing, like this male seen in our back garden last week, is thought to mimic wasps, just as that striped abdomen might suggest. One of our smallest #Florida #dragonflies but oh so beautiful! #Orlando #ThePhotoHour #nature #InsectThursday #InsectWeek #InsectWeek 23
Good evening... its been a busy week so only now able to share this lovely newly emerged Marbled White I saw on Monday! 🤍 Hope you are all doing well...🕊 #butterflies #InsectWeek #InsectWeek 23 #InsectThursday #nature #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #wildlife
This little one hopped right into my heart 💖
A stunning Common Field grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus). This species is super variable in colour. I finally set my eyes on a PINK one yesterday, and on my local patch (at work)! 🦗 #NMCCbiodiversity
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