Category: Insects
Photographs and descriptions of insects (other than butterflies – which have their own tag!) I have come across during my travels.
Leave only footprints: scent marks left by bees
Aphidophagy: feeding on aphids
Ants on peonies: who benefits the most?
Nursery web spiders
Bumblebees and flower tubes: a tale of two honeysuckles.
Hoverflies as pollinators
Extra-floral nectaries on guelder rose: serving the community
How to spend the summer: aphid dimorphs
Rosemary flowers: well designed pollen dusters!
Sycamore aphids on buds and new leaves
Ray Cannon's nature notes 