HSV Botanical Garden

Fancy looking insect . Its head resembled an antelope . Anyone knows what its called ?

at Bickershaw Rucks

stuck on some spider silk

Small flower weevil on the car

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Dance fly on hibiscus syriacus flower. Focus stacked using zerene

Picture wing fly on ox-eye daisy flower bud. Focus stacked using zerene

Leaf cutter bee feeding on valerian

Butterfly

Bluebottle fly close up. Focus stacked using zerene

Un coléoptère de la famille des Cantharidae.

大白斑蝶的幼蟲

Green shieldbug nymph. Focus stacked using zerene

Advanced honey bee training. It took about 5 minutes before one of the honey bees worked it out and started feeding in flight

Peacock butterfly on the budlia bush

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Week 51 - More negativism for my penultimate week...this moth landed on the outside of my window.

Look closely, he's eating a fly.

Bee fly landing gear down. Strong natural light

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Monarchs feeding on thistles. It was a poor year around here for butterflies and the news is especially bad for the Monarch Butterflies. Monarch populations are in great decline due to habitat modification in many parts of their range, especially the central US where so much native prairie has been turned into cropland. I had one day in the fall when I saw many Monarch Butterflies feeding on thistles. They were probably gearing up for their migration south for the winter. This particular site in the photo is CRP land, former agriculture land converted back to prairie habitat. Fall 2013, Central IL.

To read more about Monarch population declines, check out this NY Times article

www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/sunday-review/the-year-the-mon...

and an article about trying to help Monarchs by planting Milkweed plants, the preferred food for their caterpillars: www.nytimes.com/2013/12/21/us/setting-the-table-for-a-flu...

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