Prepare for take off

Bumble bee and echinops or Look at the pollen sacs on that one!

A bee on a cephalaria

Photo Hunt - Stripes

Hover fly in its stripey glory

A rather coy bumble bee

The theme for this week's Photo Hunt is stripes. Again I don;t have a lot that fits in wth the theme so shere's a repeat of hover fly photo posted originally in 2007. Also a bumble bee that chooses not to flaunt its delicious stripines... or should that be hoops? Ah well another stretched theme!

My cast means that I still can't spend too much time at the pc so please bear with me

Bumble bee and cephalaria

Photo Hunt - Party

The theme for this week's Photo Hunt is party. The problem is that it's ben ages since I went to one. The last one was for my mum and dad's golden wedding anniversary. Their parish priest made it extra special by presenting him with a benemerenti medal. Sadly those photos are stuck on a broken external HDD. Ah well so it's going to have to be something insect related instead. Our garden in June and July is a magnet for insects. It sometimes feels like it's a party and and most of the phylum arthropoda is invited!

Hover fly

Bumble bee

The ever present crab spider

Dragonfly

And finally a couple of lily beetles in the process of creating more lily beetles

Photo Hunt - Tiny

Tiny is the theme of this week's Photo Hunt. so here goes:

A single bloom on a Buddelia.

A bumble bee getting a snack from teasel flowers

Tiny? well in both cases the blooms are pretty small...

Bumble Bee

Bumble bee tucking into a lunch of Hebe in our garden