Monarch in my garden #today

My husband took these, so I'll give him credit.

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#Today tiny baby mantis on my plumeria

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Die Flügel dieses weiblichen Rothalsbocks sind schon shiny.

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Ein erster Gast auf meinem Balkon 🥰

Die Hyazinthe habe ich vorgezogen gekauft, sie hat gestern angefangen, ihre Blüten zu öffnen.
Die Narzissen und Perlhyazinthen vom letzten Jahr brauchen noch ein bisschen.

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Today's friend, is this cheerful hoverfly! Surely in the Syrphus genus, and likely a female S. ribesii - the common banded hoverfly! I say likely, as there are three main Syrphus species of hoverfly found in the UK that are very hard to distinguish, luckily this lady has a distinctive yellow hind femur or I'd have no hopes of an ID 😊

Their strange slug-like larvae feed on aphids, helping to keep plants healthy, and the adults feed on nectar while helping to pollinate flowers 🥰

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Have been trying to get into the habit of posting one bug picture a week to Instagram so I figured I might as well post them here too!

This is one of my fav pics! Oedemera nobilis (false oil beetle) and Oedemera lurida chilling on a flower, two different species of beetles in the same family just vibing

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Cotton Harlequin Bug on an Illawarra Flame Tree seed pod. This one is a female, the males are blue. For some reason they seem to really like these pods and are often visible on them.

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