WHITE PETALS AND PLENTY OF INSECTS

in Petals2 years ago (edited)

While rambling around the meadows in between my hometown and the nearest city on the hot afternoon of July the sixth 2019 ...

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... I came across a field covered with many flowers that look like big daisies, more than double in size compared with the usual daisies that grow on my lawn.

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And among them ...

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... I found quite a few interesting insects. In this triptych, you can see a big, robust fly from the Bombyliidae family - the Lomatia belzebul.

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The fly was very fast and evasive when I arrived. It was a couple of years ago, but I remember that day well when I see these photographs. I was trying to get a shot, but the insect will land only for a second or two and escape when I came closer with the camera. It took me at least half an hour of waiting quietly among the flowers for this fly to become accustomed to my presence.

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In the end, I was able to hold the flower with one hand and shoot with the other.

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These small bees, don't know the species, were also buzzing around ...

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... while the Linx spiders Oxyopes heterophthalmus were waiting in ambush.

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Here you can see the spider with its prey ...

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... one of those small bees.

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While talking about insects, I almost forgot to introduce the main protagonists - the flowers.

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These are the flowers of the Leucanthemum vulgare plant.

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Here you can see the Tyta luctuosa, a moth from the Noctuidae family that was sucking the nectar through its proboscis.

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This is another moth ...

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... the Emmelia trabealis. From the same family. Noctuidae.

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At one point, a fly landed on the same flower and started feeding.

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This is the Sphaerophoria scripta, a species from the Syrphidae family.

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Soon the fly flew away. But not far. In this photograph, you can see the same Sphaerophoria scripta feeding on the yellow center of the nearby flower.

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This moth from the Erebidae family, the Coscinia striata ...

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... was resting on the long stem of the Common Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)

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Some Leucanthemum vulgare flowers were hosting the aphids guarded by the ants. You can barely see these very small insects in the three shots above because I didn't have the macro lens back then in 2019. All the photographs in the post were taken with a small, not very good compact camera.

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The Tropinota squalida beetle has buried its head in the juicy center of the flower. These beetles feed mainly on pollen and nectar, but occasionally can also chew other soft parts and damage the flower.

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Here you can see a small fly that I wasn't able to identify.

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I don't know the family and have no idea what species this could be.

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In this photograph, you can see a fly from the Bombyliidae family. Can't tell you the exact species.

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A bit later, I encountered another Lomatia belzebul.

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And that's it. These flowers sustain a nice variety of small arthropods. In this post, you saw only a few of them.

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That Bombyliidae fly looks so fluffy :3

Yes 🙂these are the cutest flies on the planet, I think.

Those are indeed very large daisy like flowers. And so much diverse insects on them, from flies, bees to spiders.
The little beetle that buried its head hahaha how fun is that. 😊
Have a great Sunday evening 😎

😀A funny pose, definitely. Very cartoonish. 😀

It sure is cartoonish 😁😁🤣😉

Lovely spring atmosphere! You have so many insects! Please send some to my garden. We need more types of insects in the garden. Perhaps too many birds around have been eating up all the insects! Very few butterflies too! Non more bees around.

😀 I'll send you if you send me yours. I need more biodiversity here. And something new to photograph. 😀You can send lizards, snakes and scorpions too.

🙀Hahahah. You want all the fierce and poisonous creatures! Oh! No! Very risky job trying to catch them! Two weeks ago, I had to rescue a long and fat black snack about two inches in diameter. My cat knocked him out and put him on the stair. I almost stepped on him! The scorpions are too big and aggressive too, always raising the tail ready to sting!

You should come to visit Thailand jungle one day! 😂😂

I hope I will travel around the world in search of animals to photograph one day 😀 and I hope that that will be relatively soon. I will visit Thailand's jungles then 😀and say hello to all those scorpions and stuff.

Yay! 🤗
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Beautiful 🙂👍

Very beutiful flower and insect on the flower

wow, this is fantastic and great the flowers looking beautiful and attractive.i like the insect too because of the difference colour.

This pictures are really nice @borjan I like and appreciate every part of it

Beautiful white petals it's my favorite flowers color with yellow 💛 also I like daffodil. All insects species have their own role in life

Various kinds of animals there that I have never seen before and of course every day sucking honey from the flowers

I have also noticed a lot of insects on these specific flowers in my garden last Summer. Most curious indeed :)

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It's nice to have flowers that attract insects around the house. 🙂I mean, it's like having a zoo for small animals. Always something interesting to observe.

What flower is that?

The scientific name is written in the text of the post. I don't know the common names in various current langueges.

Oooh the shooting is very cool i really like it..