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Despite its name, the small skipper is not our smallest skipper, although it is smaller than the large skipper: the other skipper likely to occur in gardens.
Like its larger cousin, the small skipper is often found basking on vegetation, or making short buzzing flights among tall grass stems.
It is a small, bright orange, moth-like butterfly that flies rapidly and often has its wings closed at rest. It is less boldly marked on its upperwings than the large skipper.
This butterfly is widespread in southern Britain and is expanding its range northwards. There is a single generation each year.
Eggs are laid in late July and early August. The caterpillars emerge some two weeks later.
What they eat:
Adults nectar at flowers. The caterpillars feed on Yorkshire fog grass.
Identifying features:
Natural habitats: Flower border Herb garden Lawn/grassy area Woodland area
New Holland honeyeaters obtain most of their carbohydrates from the nectar of flowers. Consequently, they are key pollinators of many flowering plant species, many of which are endemic to Australia, such as Banksia, Hakea, Xanthorrhoea, and Acacia.
Despite feeding primarily on nectar, New Holland honeyeaters are not strictly nectarivorous. Nectar does not contain protein, so they must supplement their diet with invertebrates, such as spiders and insects that are rich in protein.
" Honey bees make honey from pollen and nectar collected from flowers...They live in large colonies with one queen, many sterile females workers and some male drones...
In the wild honey bees nest in hollow trees...
When a new queen emerges, she embarks on a mating flight... On returning to her hive, with help from the workers, she kills the failing, old queen...Alternatively, before the new queen emerges, the old queen may leave with a swarm of workers to form a new colony..."
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Some lovely flowers we have in the front garden, These flowers are highly attractive to the bees. We always have at least 10 bees swarming around the flowers throughout the day.
A very small iridescent Butterfly, nectaring on Jack by the Hedge, taken in Norfolk.
Not a macro image, taken with a Nikon 300mm F4 PF + 1.4 TC.
This is the first year I've managed to photograph one that isn't tatty / damaged.
During a brief cloudy spell, in Norfolk. Not much of it in focus, but, at least the eye is. Not a true macro image, taken with the Nikon 300mm F4 PF + 1.4 TC. ISO 1000 , no noise reduction added in camera or post processing.
A female olive-backed sunbird (cinnyris jugularis) probing a flower for nectar. Photographed near Ao Nang, Krabi Province, Thailand.
A gold dust day gecko looks bejeweled as it laps nectar from a red ginger bract. This gecko (Phelsuma laticauda) is a diurnal species that feeds on insects and other invertebrates, and obviously enjoys nectar. Like other geckos, they lack eyelids and use their tongue to clean the transparent plate covering their eyes.