Exciting news! My latest book - Planting for Pollinators. Scheduled for publication 22 June. Published by Bloomsbury. #pollinators#gardening#planting#flowers
To celebrate part 1 of David Attenborough’s fascinating programme #attenboroughslifeincolour last night, Darwin’s slipper flower Left: visible light Right: #UVlight The least seedsnipe - a bird - pollinates it & eats the white sweetlip as a reward #COLOUR#Flowers
Anyone help please with ID of a mosquito Culiseta? A male nectaring on Fatsia japonica in our Surrey garden 19 NOV 2020. We have a pond in the garden @DipteristsForum
Thanks for your fun quote “fucus vesiculosis is otherwise known as heather angel” which I had not heard before, here is the only Fucus vesiculosus image I can quickly find.
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Taken in south China, a mother gibbon and her newborn is one of my favourite wildlife images. Other wildlife featured in Bradt’s Jan issue of The Travel Club e-zine. Sign up for your copy: https://t.co/1CRcPgZULv
RT "While studying the life cycle of bladderwrack seaweed in LC biology many moons ago, our teacher informed the class that “fucus vesiculosis is otherwise known as heather angel” @dlyons339 Well, I never knew that! Thanks for the useful snippet I am getting material for a memoir
Throughout 2020 I have been buying & growing plants to photograph floral visitors for a new book. It was a snug fit for a carder bee seeking nectar in honeywort - with the eyes inside I could get really close
Thrilled to see the first flowers opening on a classy winter flowering clematis (Clematis napaulensis) in our unheated conservatory today. Thanks @crocusCoUk for my fav clematis to date. Reminiscent of purple grapes smothered in cream
This stunning flower is Cypella aquatilis from Brazil, which flowered in our Surrey pond in 2018 & 2019. Classified in Iridaceae – the iris family – it appears on our Christmas e-card this year
Short on ideas for Xmas presents? Check out many of my pollination shots & some China images now available as prints https://t.co/2mj9J1q4Er Thanks to @naturepl there is a 15% offer code (NPLXMAS) until Xmas
A sharp-tailed bee in our Surrey garden feeds on Sedum 10/9/019 Coelioxys ?conoidea @StevenFalk1@Eucera When cloud covered sun it disappeared, but returned when sun came out – 3 times!
@StevenFalk1@Eucera Many thanks. My other half should take the credit for spotting it. We have plenty of heathlands in the Farnham area and will look more carefully at foraging Megachile next year