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Spotted this honey bee taking a brief rest this afternoon – when the Sun came out from behind the clouds, it flew off & back to work 🐝

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A close-up side-on picture of a honey bee sitting on a green leaf. The bee is very hairy, with various little bits of pollen stuck to it. It is mostly yellow-orange with black bands, black legs, and black compound eyes.

And as the garden wasn't entirely free of insects, here's a bonus #BugOfTheDay.

My best guess is that it's a privet leafhopper (Fieberiella florii), but I'm open to corrections.

I only grabbed a quick picture before it, umm, hopped away, & the depth of field isn't great.

But it captures the lovely orange, white, & black striped compound eye nicely, along with texture around the head, so it's worth posting 🤷‍♂️

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A close-up picture of a small greenish bug with orange stripes sitting on some green leaves. It has compound eyes which are orange with horizontal white and black stripes. The background is also green and out-of-focus.

A bit of a mystery for today's #BugOfTheDay 🤨

I'd given up on finding many insects in the garden today, as it was fairly cold. So I decided to take a picture of this pretty peach-leaved bellflower (Campanula persicifolia), only to discover a rather lethargic bee cosied up inside 🐝

I suspect that it's a mining bee of the Andrena genus, but can anyone identify it more specifically? 🧐

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A small black bee with sparse rufous hairs sitting at the base of the three-pronged white stamen inside a lilac-coloured flower. The background is green and out-of-focus.

..and another snap of the Beautiful Demoiselle 😍

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A irridescent teal coloured damselfly, a male 'beautiful Demoiselle' perched on a leaf lit in sunlight against unfocused darker green background

The thing is, you see, allergic misery or no, if I can shake it off I will and it's very hard for me to break the now deeply ingrained walking addiction. And then I see beautiful lil' fairies like this aptly named damselfly, the 'Beautiful Demoiselle' 😊🤧

So, two things..

1. Where can I get a dress made with material identical to this? 💃

And..

2. Yes I shall be whining about allergy misery tomorrow morning 🫩

Have a wonderful evening sweet friends 💕🥰
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A male Beautiful Demoiselle', with an irridescent teal body and shimmering wings, seen on the dry mud bank of a river

A Long Nose Bee Fly
Insects I see around the house.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombylius_major

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A six spotted Tiger beetle
Insects I see around the house.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicindela_sexguttata

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庭にて。石楠花が綺麗に咲いてる。

ブンブンいってるなーと思ったらクマバチが。
花粉団子を一生懸命作ってるコマルハナバチも。
モコモコしてる見た目もそのしぐさも可愛すぎる。

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Easter Monday bug of the day 🪲

A dor beetle (Anoplotrupes stercorosus) in the forest above the Peterstal. A very dark black-blue on top, they are a beautiful metallic blue underneath, as can be glimpsed in this one’s rear leg.

As seen on a family walk to the Teltschikturm atop the Schreisheimer Kopf at 530 metres amsl. Windy up there today 😬✌️

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