Darkly Handsome. Daucus carota, Queen Anne's Lace, and Sand Tailed Digger Wasp, Cerceris arenaria, Meuse Corridor, Venlo, The Netherlands

Obviously we associate Queen Anne's Lace with white umbels. By far most of its wild plants are indeed white, but very occasionally you'll see dark purple florets. Here a close-up of one in the Meuse Corridor Nature Reserve that Olymp spotted this afternoon. I watched it for a while to see whether it attracts different insects than the usual white flowers. It seemed to me the color makes no difference in the numbers and kinds of visiting insects. I saw as many varieties as on white.

Here on our Handsome Purple Umbel is a pretty Sand Tailed Digger Wasp, Cerceris arenaria.

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