Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

More Flower Interactions

Though perched on a Red Deadnettle/Lamium purpureum, this Black-shouldered Drone Fly/Eristalis dimidiata is covered in what I think is Dandelion/Taraxacum pollen.

Another Black-shouldered on the same patch of Dandelions.

Narrow-headed Marsh Fly/Helophilus fasciatus on the same Dandelions.

Flesh fly/Sarcophaginae.

Look at how pollen-y these field ants are! Pale Field Ants/Formica pallidefulva In Lesser Celandine/Ficaria verna.

First European Paper Wasp/Polistes dominula I’ve seen this year. Also in Lesser Celandine.

Another European Paper Wasp, in Callery Pear/Pyrus calleryana this time.

Flower Lebia Beetle/Lebia viridis, I believe, in Dandelion.

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