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Warbler Week, Day 5...First seen by Alexander Wilson in 1811 in the fine state of Tennessee, the Tennessee Warbler (Oreothlypis peregrina) was thusly given its name. Unfortunately, this warbler does not make its home in that state, and was merely passing through during migration. It, like yesterday's cape may warbler, breeds primarily in Canada where it also feasts on spruce budworms. In the winters, it too enjoys nectars. Unlike the cape may, who uses his specialized tongue to obtain the nectar, the Tenessee warbler steals it. Well, it's a theft as far as the flower is concerned. The whole reason flowers put out nectar, after all, is to entice pollinators to come dance on their petals. The Tennessee warbler instead pierces the flowers at their base and battens on the nectar without ever pollinating the flower!
Male Baltimore Oriole drinking nectar from apple blossom. When the apple trees started blooming, the jelly I had put out for Baltimore Orioles was ignored. That evening, there were 5 orioles in my crabaple tree: 4 males and a female. Home, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. 21 May 2023
This guy was enjoying sipping nectar from a native Ironweed in my yard. Ironweed is an important nectar source for butterflies and other critters from July through late fall. Photo captured in my yard near Owasso, Oklahoma.
This ant has found the motherlode of nectar in this milkweed flower. This was only one ant, of 50 or more, that was crawling all over this nectar-loaded plant.
Last summer at Maywood Nature Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin...
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Stagecoach 15405 (KX04 RDV) a Scania Omnidekka, is captured along Nectar Way, Swan Valley, Northampton, operating a 55 service.
11th March 2019
These Silene armeria flowers are considered wildflower,
I got packet of wildflower seeds for butterflies years ago,
they starting to spread beyond the butterfly garden,
I do dig them up in bunches and still come up.
Still no large Butterflies here, even these common whites are low in numbers.
*Note, the reason me writing all this info is, many people want to know about the Butterfly movement up north.
I caught this Honey Bee – Apis mellifera –, with its legs covered in nectar and in flight, just as it was about to land on the, (I think), Hogweed – Heracleum sphondylium – growing on the banks of Carr Mill Dam, St Helens. Taken hand held using a +4 macro filter on my 18-270 zoom.
This year is the first time I've been able to photograph butterflies in their natural environment (maybe I just have more patience this year). Found this lovely Cabbage White butterfly earlier in the summer.
I bought a macro lens which arrived yesterday. Hoping I'll still be able to find some wildlife now that we're into the Autumn :)
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Glittering-bellied Emerald (Chlorostilbon lucidus), one of the most common hummingbird here in Brazil.
These are so common during their flight window that I generally neglect getting their photos. I tried to fix that this year, but the photos are very boring.
Echinocereus triglochidiatus is a species of hedgehog cactus known by several common names, including kingcup cactus, claretcup, and Mojave mound cactus. This cactus is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it is a resident of varied habitats from low desert to rocky slopes, scrub, and mountain woodland. It is most abundant in shady areas.
A number of varieties of this highly variable cactus species are known, but not all are universally recognized. In general, it is a mounding cactus, forming bulbous piles of a few to hundreds of spherical to cylindrical stems. It is densely spiny and somewhat woolly. The showy flower is a funnel-shaped bloom up to 8–9 cm (3.1–3.5 inches) wide and bright scarlet red to orange-red tepals. A thick nectar chamber and many thready pink stamens are at the center of the corolla. The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds. (Wikipedia)