Lupine lovelies

 

I have visited a patch of lupines along the lakeshore many times over the years. Whether these flowers are some of the various local wild species or are domestic escapees is unclear, but they have been there on their own for about a half century. Whatever they were in the past, they are now wild.

First are three pictures of some flowers themselves, then three pictures of their visitors.

On the leaves there were a number of jumping spiders. This one had captured a fly.

A golden dung fly was on the grass below the flowers.

Many pollinators were visiting the flowers, but the prize sighting was of the (nearly extirpated) Western Bumble Bee—undoubtedly a queen. This sighting is within metres of where I saw my first western three years ago.

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One Response to Lupine lovelies

  1. Valerie says:

    Wow!

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