I made this post on August 18 2020. It was a sunny and beautiful summer day. I did my best to take as good close-ups of bees and butterflies as possible. I was satisfied with the result.
I certainly does not look like summer out there. But in less than a month it most likely will. Time flies.
Here's a link to the original:
https://peakd.com/hive-194913/@markkujantunen/a-gorgeous-day
It's about 23 C out there and the sky is completely clear. It's slighly warmer than average for the time of year. Autumn is a month away. But the nights are getting longer. It was only 11 C this morning at eight o'clock.
In Finland, the meteorological definition of summer is the 24-hour daily average temperature being persistently above 10 C. It coincides with leaves being fully grown on most deciduous trees in the beginning of the summer or them turning mostly yellow in the end of it. After mid-September frost at sunrise becomes fairly common but it may not be seen until much later in the autumn like last year. We're experiencing a fairly common type of late summer weather right now.
I took some photos in the garden.
The iPhone 7 has a pretty good camera. Taking these shots wasn't easy because the bees were rapidly moving nearly all the time. What helps is the abundance of light under this type of conditions. That allows for the exposure time to be extremely short and the motion of insects to be frozen like that.
Aglais urticae a.k.a. small tortoiseshell
