irisRichardson , to random
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Our garden is a work of art. This is our basil that is strechtching out to the sun.

https://www.pictorem.com/2018042/Basil%20Bloom.html

https://iris-richardson.pixels.com/featured/basil-bloom-iris-richardson.html

eabolden , to random
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Hot weather flowers in the garden

Lily- a newer acquisition. Center color with an almost water-stain like effect where the petal color transitions to a different muted color
Lily dark petal tips with light flower center
A major transportation center around this milkweed flower with insect attendants

brejoc , to random
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Another super tiny bird: The wren

hastingsmothman , to random
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Much warmer last night and a few more came out to play. Finally, my first muppet-coloured ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH and a delicate (if slightly battered) SWALLOW-TAILED of 2024 ... and just for good measure, a SPECTACLE with the biggest mohican you've ever seen on a moth hilariously clearing for take-off...

Overhead shot of a large, delicate, flat tissue paper moth in very pale lemon. It looks very delicate. It has a furry head with a bald patch where it is ageing. The forewings are triangular with the apex meeting at the head, so one side of the triangle appears like a top wing edge. The forewings are shorter than the hindwings, so the hindwings poke out very visibly beneath. Each have a point with two black dots so that it resembles a bird face but the effect is to create a very, very, shallow fork of the wing like a swallow's tail. The forewings have two orange brown stripes stretching from one side of the triangular wing to the other, but because the apex is at the head, the stripes look vertical. In between each stripe is a very short stripe of the same colour, barely a third of the length.
Face on shot of a spectacle moth on an egg box hump. Its wings behind are fuzzy as they flap ready for take-off. It has a distinct light brown marking on its darker forehead that resemble a pair of spectacles, above which, centrally is a ginger brown mohican that sticks up. Two antennae stretch horizontally a bit like a wiry moustache. Overall a quirky appearance.

Overhead shot of a large, vivid olive green and bright fuschia pink moth on fingers. It is glider-shaped with wings sloping back from its chunky abdomen. The head is olive green with pink stripes down each side and two close together running down the middle. Its abdomen is also olive green with a single vertical pink stripe down the centre. Its wings are olive green with three distinct pink elements. The first is a short fuschia pink stripe sloping shallowly from each side of the base of its head, extending two-thirds across the wing. The second element is a lighter pink band that stretches in a shallow arc shape from left wing corner to right wing corner breaking only where the abdomen is visible. The third element is the same lighter pink colour, a thicker band that runs along the bottom edge of each wing. The moth has two slightly feathered antennae stretched horizontally from its head
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    Becksy , to random
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    Amazing cloud formations over our garden. #Cloud #clouds #ireland #weather #Wicklow #Djouce #trees #garden #polytunnel #home

    #clouds

    MissMeow , to random
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    Well, well, well, my froggy friends coming out in full force just in time for froggy Friday. They normally just like hiding between the plants.

    Same frog but this time we see it from behind.
    The head of a brown frog sticking out of a lot of leaves and grasses.

    eabolden , to random
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    A selection of independent characters making an impression in the gardens

    Succulent blooms soon-to-open at the tip of a sturdy stalk
    A Lily destination action picture, with guest insect
    Ornamental weeping peach going all in on fruit production this year

    hastingsmothman , to random
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    BANGER ALERT!

    These are pretty common, to be fair, but it's a first time visitor to my garden.

    He was rather reluctant to let me see his pink and blue undergarments, but he did eventually consent to a quick flash:

    EYED HAWK-MOTH

    A close up of an Eyed Hawk-Moth on a palm. The shot is very close focusing in on an exposed hindwing showing the eye. The eye itself starts indigo in the centre with a ring of light blue and then a thicker ring of black to finish. The eye is on a largely buff-coloured wing but to there is a flash of crimson pink to the upper part of the hindwing where the top of the eye is. The crimson pink is partially obscured by the stretched out forewing.
    Front on shot of eyed hawk moth on a finger. It looks like a grey felt ball with a v-shaped snout either side of which sit two black eyes and a small black mohican on the top. The creamy, feathered antennae stretch left and right. Three legs grip the fingers

    a large angular-winged moth on the back of fingers. Its wingspan covers all four fingers. It is largely grey with a black head and some dark marking on the inner edge of its forewings. Its wings are large and a little clothes hanger shape, initially slope away from the head before forming a square shape at the bottom wing edge, and then sloping sharply hack up to the head. It has two creamy, feathered antennae. The background is blurred green vegetation.
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    NatureWithSteve , to random
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    Remembering Dad (who died a year and a half ago) on . It was Dad who encouraged my early interest in and then, when I was in my teens, my passion for .

    Here he is in the he loved so much, with some of the he captured on camera there. Thanks Dad, and rest well.

    NatureWithSteve OP ,
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    Dad's has provided me with many opportunities for over the years, even when he was no longer able to tend to it. Pics here from 2016 to earlier this year, clockwise from top left: Common , , Seven-spot , and Brimstone .

    A European Robin perched on top of a globe-shaped garden light. This is a juvenile, almost in full adult plumage (so he or she has a brown cap, back, wings and tail, orangey-red on the face and chest and a whitish belly) but the feathers are little 'scruffy' in places, especially around the head, where the transition between young and adult feathers has not been fully completed.
    A male Brimstone butterfly on Sweet Pea flowers. The Butterfly's wings, held closed together above the body, are a bright greenish-yellow colour, with pointed corners giving a leaf-like shape, and with noticeable veins plus a single, small brown mark in the middle of each one. The underside of the furry body, and the legs, are also yellow, while the top of the head, the eyes and the antennae are shades of brown. The Sweet Pea flowers are a pinkish purple, with paler patches.
    A Seven-spot ladybird (or Ladybug) on a pale green leaf. This is a small, rotund beetle with shiny red wing cases, each case bearing three black botches, with a seventh black mark spread across both close to where the abdomen meets the thorax. The thorax is black with some white markings and small head is black, with short brown antennae. The legs, also short, are black.

    RememberUsAlways , to random
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    @afg
    Need help to identify this flowering tree / bush.

    Any Botanist available to assist?

    North , to random
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    Don’t You (Forget About Me)

    ai6yr , to random
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    Today in: how to make more manual labor for yourself.

    Told the tree crew down the street I'd take the chipped trees they are working on today as mulch (due for a refresh). Going to get a full load, I think. 😂

    Not like I don't get enough exercise as is...

    ai6yr OP ,
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    I'd like a giant load of mulch for free,
    Something I've done before you see,
    Keeps down weeds, keeps the garden cool
    Leaves water in the soil, that's the rule

    Now, the only problem with this plan today
    Is moving mulch is hard, I must say
    It's great and saves you money
    But you'll pay in sore muscles and back, sonny

    (human poem)

    Rihilism , to random
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    Great spangled fritillary.
    (06/05/24)

    Extreme closeup photograph of a great spangled fritillary butterfly with closed wings standing on a horizontal green leaf with out of focus green leaves in the background. The butterfly is facing slightly to the right with its head near center frame and the upper portion of its upper wing mostly out of frame. Great fritillary butterflies have orange bodies covered in fine orange hairs, six orange legs, two large, orange, compound eyes with darker spots, and two orange antennae. They have large orange upper and lower inner wings with cream-white spots outlined in black, black spots and striping, and orange colors that range from almost tangerine to burnt-orange.
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    artistsgarden , to random
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    The first of the year. Hung in the to dry, left to right: , , ,

    joncounts , to random
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    Here's the first leaf-veined slug we've ever seen in our NZ suburban garden. It's the 404th species of invertebrate we've now found in our garden, after over ten years of looking for such things. My wife found it under an old wood heap (over the fence from where our chickens forage).

    NZ leaf-veined slugs all eat fungi, and are a welcome addition to gardens, unlike the introduced European slugs and snails that eat NZers vegetables.

    https://inaturalist.nz/observations/221510055

    A photo looking face-on at a yellow leaf-veined slug crawling across a hand (if slugs "crawl"—more of a "slime").

    alice , to random
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    My garden needed some love, so here it is.

    1/?

    Ground cover with little white flowers.
    Purple and white flowers.
    White foxglove.

    alice OP ,
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    Moar flowers!

    3/3?

    Pink & blue flower bunches.
    Flowers and veggies in a big wooden planter.
    Little pink carnations..?

    North , to random
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    Garden colours are popping!

    A chive flowering
    Purple flowers blooming on a green background
    An ant on a peony

    alchemistsstudio , to random
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    Trilobyter , to random
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    A cloud of tiny flies hovering over one of the zinnias in the front garden, catching the last rays of the evening light.

    garyjesionowski , to random
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    anja_in_wonderland , to random

    4,5,6 for Always believe something wonderful is about to happen 😊

    Bluebelle
    Bartnelke

    Trilobyter , to random
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    I think this is a band-winged dragonlet (Erythrodiplax umbrata), perched on the tip of one of our obedience plants in the front garden yesterday evening.

    arkadiusz , to random
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    So cute baby cows in the Fanal Forest ~ Porto Moniz, Madeira, Portugal 🇵🇹

    Gear:
    • Sony α6400
    • Sigma 16 mm f/1.4 DC DN | C

    #animal #animalphotography #animals #art #babies #baby #beautiful #beauty #cow #cows #cute #differentgreens #dreamy #fanal #fog #foggy #forest #fotografia #garden #grain #grainisgood #grass #green #greenery #madeira #mastoart #mist #nature #naturelover #naturelovers #naturephotography #outdoors #peaceful #photo #photographer #photography #photooftheday #rain #raining #scenery #sigma #sonya6400 #sonyalpha #travel #travelphotography #tree #trees #wanderlust #wilderness

    A photo of two small cows standing under a tree in the Fanal forest. In the background is rain, fog and trees.

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