Tag Archives: Irish pollinators

Lens-Artists Challenge #178 – You Choose

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So this week Tina’ let us choose our own theme. I am, perhaps unsurprisingly, going for some glorious bees to remind us of last summer and to help us look forward to next year. They are mostly bumblebees but I had to include the beautiful solitary mining bee too.

White tailed bumblebee
Common carder bee
Great Yellow Bumblebee
Red tailed bee
White tailed bee in flight
Early bumblebee
Gardebn bumblebee
Early bumblebee
Grey mining bee (solitary bee)
White tailed bee

Lens-Artists Challenge #164 – Looking Up/Down

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This week we are being encouraged to look up and down. In nature there is much to see above our heads. Like wonderful birds soaring.

  • Gull in flight

But I think I spend more of my time looking down, especially as bees and flowers!!

  • Large carder (Bombus muscorum) bee on common burdock

Lens-Artists Challenge #120 – What A Treat!

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Here in Ireland, we find ourselves in lockdown again. So we have to stay within 5km of our homes. So for this week’s lens artist challenge it was a case of heading back over the year’s photos and seeing what types of treats there were.

Seeing and being able to photograph wildlife is always a treat for me.

  • bumblebee on knapweed
  • White butterfly on verbena
  • Tortoiseshell on scabious
  • Male bullfinch enjoying dandelion seeds
  • grasshopper

Magic pollinators

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As it is coming to the end of pollinator season for 2019, it seemed an appropriate time to have a celebration of all the magic off pollinators and the work they do.

peacock butterfly

Peacock

Butterflies and moths are only incidental pollinators, it is the bees and hoverflies that visit the flowers for both nectar and pollen.

White tailed bumblebee

White tailed bumblebee

Here are some more magical pollinators.

Red admiral
Cuckcoo bumblebee
Hoverfly
Six Burnett moth
White
Green viened whites
Bumblebee
White tailed bumblebee
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Common carder bee