green tea with orange blossom on canvas -background with a copy space
scoop of green tea with orange blossom on canvas background
"black" hollyhock detail with rain drops, Phippsburg, Maine summer garden, an old fashioned single favorite
center details of sunflower. I'm intrigued by how it so perfectly regular almost looking man made (some would argue that as a cultivar, it is man made!). There are three obvious globs or drops of nectar too (white waxy looking) toward the outer band before the seed developments.
Flower flies, Hover Fly or Syrphid fly, sixteen species of which this is one are often seen hovering around flowers. They eat nectar but also will eat aphids and are important in natural pest control. This is a blossom of soft pink, New Dawn climbing rose in my coastal Maine, Phippsburg garden
kerria japonica, a   yellow, early blooming shrub in my coastal Maine Phippsburg garden
Hover fly hovering over double, pale pink rose, Phippsburg, Maine garden summer
Flower flies, Hover Fly or Syrphid fly, sixteen species of which this is one are often seen hovering around flowers. They eat nectar but also will eat aphids and are important in natural pest control. This is a blossom of soft pink, New Dawn climbing rose in my coastal Maine, Phippsburg garden
Flower flies, Hover Fly or Syrphid fly, sixteen species of which this is one are often seen hovering around flowers. They eat nectar but also will eat aphids and are important in natural pest control. This is a blossom of soft pink, New Dawn climbing rose in my coastal Maine, Phippsburg garden
Flower flies, Hover Fly or Syrphid fly, sixteen species of which this is one are often seen hovering around flowers. They eat nectar but also will eat aphids and are important in natural pest control. This is a blossom of soft pink, New Dawn climbing rose in my coastal Maine, Phippsburg garden
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