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Image Taken on 17 Apr 2011
at 13:05 Image of day on 14 May 2011
7-spot ladybirds still dominate - haven't seen a Harlequin yet
this year that we can remember. Here it is adding a little spot
of red to the beautiful apple blossom.
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Ref: 20110514_p34_20110417_1305_346 apple blossom with ladybird(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image of day on 30 Mar 2005
Particularly relieved this year by the return of hundreds of honey bees
after a few years of seeing only a few at any time
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Ref: 20050330_d12_02301 bee collecting pollen on blackthorn flowers 2005mar19_13-58-00(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 25 May 2011
at 14:09 Image of day on 24 Jun 2011
Yellow Flag Iris is designed to use bees for pollination. The sexual organs are
beneath the upper petal which presses down on the bee as it enters leaving
or picking up pollen on its back that you can see as yellow specks on the
last image. Bees always go in the 'front' pushing up the upper petal, but
exit out of the side.
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Ref: 20110624_db1_20110525_1409_042+047+051 bee entering yellow flag iris flower and exiting through side 03+08+12 of 13 (montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 03 Mar 2007
at 10:37 Image of day on 13 Mar 2007
Relief to see a bee with all their recent woes. We have also had
a few visiting the flowers in our conservatory come greenhouse.
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Ref: 20070313_p34_20070303_1037_532 bee on cherry blossom(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 09 May 2011
at 10:58 Image of day on 07 Jun 2011
Also under the corrugated iron sheet was this Bee-Fly which came
out rather reluctantly, hovering very low to the ground giving us
opportunities to capture this unusual view of it hovering over
the ground with a lovely shadow.
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Ref: 20110607_df1_20110509_1058_056 bee-fly flying just above ground with shadow (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 24 Apr 2010
at 14:50 Image of day on 30 May 2010
This might be a 'common' bee-fly (one of 12 or 15 species
according to which book you look in but neither has any detail)
now seen here in Spring for the last 3 years. This year we got
the 'Flight Tunnel' out of its winter hibernation early and made
this one one of the subjects.
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Ref: 20100530_da1_20100424_1450_117+1612_208_ft1 bee-fly in flight and red campion flowers (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image of day on 08 Jun 2005
This male blackbird has found this caterpillar and is probably
about to take it back to chicks in a nest somewhere.
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Ref: 20050608_d3c_11575 fb2 blackbird with caterpillar in beak 2005jun06_20-48-10(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 24 May 2009
at 11:43 Image of day on 22 Jun 2009
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Ref: 20090622_da1_20090524_1143_218 bluetit flying to nest box on ivans black poplar with caterpillar(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 23 May 2009
at 11:17 Image of day on 22 Jun 2009
The Bluetit box on our tallest black poplar gets a delivery like this
every minute or two. What a supply of insects we must have!
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Ref: 20090622_da1_20090523_1117_150 bluetit flying to nest box on ivans black poplar with cranefly(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 14 May 2011
at 15:39 Image of day on 16 Jun 2011
This bluetit looks really tatty because of a strong wind blowing up the
head feathers from behind. He has an insect for the chicks. We have
LOTS of tit nest boxes and can't say where this one went.
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Ref: 20110616_df1_20110514_1539_122 bluetit with caterpillar in beak (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 23 Jun 2009
at 16:19 Image of day on 29 Jul 2009
A stop off for a mid-flight refuelling for once taken by
pressing the shutter button to override the normal computer
controlled trigger.
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Ref: 20090729_da1_20090623_1619_340 ft1 bumble bee feeding on clover flower head (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 23 Jun 2009
at 16:18 Image of day on 29 Jul 2009
Far more bumble bees this year than we are used to, but distasterously
few honey bees.
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Ref: 20090729_da1_20090623_1618_325 ft1 bumble bee in flight at clover flower head (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 25 Jul 2009
at 11:15 Image of day on 29 Aug 2009
A bumble bee netted feeding on Great Willow Herb near a bramble patch - most
likely the cause of the slightly tatty wing edges.
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Ref: 20090829_da1_20090725_1115_079+1313_267 ft1 bumble bee in flight with great willow herb flowers (montage)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 04 Apr 2009
at 12:46 Image of day on 24 Apr 2009
Bumble bee on Blackthorn flower. There seem to have been far more
bumble bees than usual this year.
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Ref: 20090424_p34_20090404_1246_950 bumble bee on blackthorn flower (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 25 Jul 2009
at 11:20 Image of day on 29 Aug 2009
5 minutes later released on to a thistle flower it had a quick feed on that and
then moved to a clump of Great Willow Herb & spent several minutes sampling
the many flowers.
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Ref: 20090829_db1_20090725_1120_211 bumble bee on great willow herb flower (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Mar 2009
at 13:08 Image of day on 03 Apr 2009
Harbinger of Spring 1 - a bumblebee visiting the flowers - in
this case pussy-willow.
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Ref: 20090403_db1_20090315_1308_023 bumble bee on pussy willow flower(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 12 Jul 2006
at 16:57 Image of day on 18 Jul 2006
We have to limit thistles because they are so invasive, but allow
patches to grow but stop them seeding. This bumble bee is covered
in specks of pollen.
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Ref: 20060718_d60_20060712_1657_666 bumble bee on thistle flower(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image of day on 05 Nov 2005
An 'inherited' 15 year old yellow Buddleia provides food for
Bees, butterflies etc. well into the autumn.
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Ref: 20051105_p20_1040329 bumble bee on yellow buddleia (head view) 2005nov01_12-27-20(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image of day on 28 Jul 2005
These orange beetles are common at this time of year and are
usually seen in pairs like this.
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Ref: 20050728_d60_03590 cardinal beetles mating on blackberry flower 2005jul09_17-38-34 (cropped)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 14 Aug 2011
at 14:38 Image of day on 30 Sep 2011
This Cinabar this caterpillar was waving itself about. A
knowledgable visitor tells us they tend to do this when they are
hosting the larva of a parasitic fly.
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Ref: 20110930_db1_20110814_1438_044 cinnabar moth caterpillar on ragwort leaf waving head end about (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
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