Sucking Purple Deeply. Rhingia campestris, Beaked Hoverfly, on Purpletop Vervain, Verbena bonariensis, Nieuw Sterrebos, Groningen, The Netherlands

The new gardens around the Parametrically Designed DUO-tower on the very fringe of Groningen's inner city are well worth a visit. In fact, the gardens were landscaped to form a kind of unity with the amazing skyscraper at which foot they graciously undulate. There's an abundance of flowers and even a small wetlands; of course, countless insects.

Here's a Beaked Hoverfly, Rhingia campestris. Its nose or beak is used as protectrion for an immense tongue that can delve deeply into a Purple Vervain flower.

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