Insects on Blue. African Sunflax, Heliophila coronopifolia, with Bees and Hoverflies, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Among the flowers of the South Africa Collection, the Hortus boasts a seeded out bed of this wonderfully bright blue African Sunflax: www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/35458766322/in/photoli....
Olymp and his master looked for perhaps ten minutes and were rewarded with a view of at least 20 different insects. Here are four of them: two Hoverflies and two Bees. From top left to bottom left: Thick-legged Hoverfly, Syritta pipiens; Masked Bee, Hylaeus sp.; Mining Bee, Andrena sp.; Long Hoverfly, Sphaerophoria scripta. Two are after pollen, two nectar.
Insects on Blue. African Sunflax, Heliophila coronopifolia, with Bees and Hoverflies, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Among the flowers of the South Africa Collection, the Hortus boasts a seeded out bed of this wonderfully bright blue African Sunflax: www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/35458766322/in/photoli....
Olymp and his master looked for perhaps ten minutes and were rewarded with a view of at least 20 different insects. Here are four of them: two Hoverflies and two Bees. From top left to bottom left: Thick-legged Hoverfly, Syritta pipiens; Masked Bee, Hylaeus sp.; Mining Bee, Andrena sp.; Long Hoverfly, Sphaerophoria scripta. Two are after pollen, two nectar.