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12 July 2015

Fantastic foraging on Rue/Common Rue (Ruta graveolens).


 The garden is thrumming with life at the moment. This morning though, the Rue/Common Rue (Ruta graveolens) was an especially wonderful sight with honeybees, wasps, at least 4 kinds of hoverflies, bumble bees and small tortoiseshell butterflies all foraging on one plant simultaneously!

Hoverfly.
Honeybee with yellowish pollen sacs.
Hoverfly.
Small tortoiseshell butterfly.
Lucorum agg. Bumble bee.
Hoverfly.
Tree wasp.

Marmalade hoverfly.