Wood White : Leptidea sinapis

photographed in the French Hautes Pyrenees

A Black Swallowtail Butterfly enjoys the nectar from the flox flowers -DSC_6666

Schwebfliege - Hoverfly

A female Anna's Hummingbird sipping nectar! She chose our Purple Amistad Salvia for her snack. Photo taken in our backyard in Camas, Washington.

Nectarine Blossom

For my 100 Flowers Project - 2021

I love seeing the Nectarine Tree come into blossom.

I am way behind today, I have been having a lazy Sunday afternoon. I will catch up as I can.

Created for the Vivid Art Group Contest Vivid Nature

A honey bee feeding from the nectar at the base of the passion flower.

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Denver Botanic Gardens - Colorado

Colorado

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A solitary bee collecting nectar with pollen on its legs.

Fascinating, these busy bees.

(35mm fixed focal lens with 20mm extension tube)

Une abeille se régale sur une glycine. Jardin privé, Candé-sur-Beuvron

View On Black

On explore! Thats crazy! But huge thanks! :)

Gammaeule - Autographa gamma - Silver Y

auf Klee - on clover

Feld bei Steigerts/Odenwald

Colibri huppé, femelle,Guadeloupe, France

A Fritillary butterfly probes for nectar on a Musk Thistle flower.

Macro Mondays: "Wing" theme

HMM

Nectaring in flight.

Snowberry Clearwing Moth the less common of the hummingbird moths that we see, at Springton Manor in Chester County, PA.

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Small Tortoiseshell : Aglais urticae

A male orangetip butterfly nectaring on herb robert at Cirencester Park in Gloucestershire.

Hummingbird in flight ...

This young Anna's Hummingbird ordered her nectar to go! The Amistad Salvia flower got stuck on her beak. She had to shake her head to get the flower to fly off. She looked around to see if any other Hummingbirds had witnessed her embarassing moment. At this point, I started laughing as she was so darn cute! This image was taken last Summer in our backyard in Camas, Washington.

bee on a sunflower

Not exactly sure what species, there are several, and we saw a few different ones, regardless, we had fun. This was a bit more technical (took several lights, etc.) than point and click, but was really fun to see how many bats are really out there....we saw dozens and dozens once they came to feed. Boca Tapada area of Costa Rica

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Life has been a little rough for this swallowtail. Yet, it finds joy in the sweet and colorful nectar in the garden...making the long trip worthwhile. Enjoy little one. Drink until you are content.

Vigorous items

A fly drinks nectar from a flower.

Rainbow Lorikeet

Nectaring on Bee Balm - Ruby-throated Hummingbird..

I have posted two photographs of very different 'hummingbirds' nectaring on bee balm at Spinton Manor Farm in Chester County, PA.

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Small Tortoiseshell : Aglais urticae

Forester moth : Adscita statices

photographed in the French Hautes Pyrenees

Le Nacré de la ronce : Marbled Fritillary : Brenthis daphne

photographed in the French Pyrenees.

A female Anna's Hummingbird sipping nectar from our Salvia Amistad! It was a very rainy morning and the sun came out in the afternoon. Photo taken in Camas, Washington.

Brimstone : Gonepteryx rhamni