Showing posts with label wild flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wild flowers. Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Pollen to go, please

Hoverfly with Cranesbill pollenAs well as vegetables and cultivated flowers I have many wild flowers growing in my garden. I am always taking photos and inevitably some of them turn out to be rubbish! The above is a heavily cropped image from one of my reject photos. The camera was focussed on something else but as I was about to delete the image I spotted the hoverfly loaded with pollen on a cranesbill flower. A friend has suggested that the hoverfly is probably Platycheirus albimanus. As insects are not my strong point I am open to alternative suggestions.