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#MacroPhotography

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Dorine
I think this is such a beautiful flower. It is the Tricyrtis hirta, but in the Netherlands it is called the farmer's orchid or poor man's orchid. It is only small, maybe 2 or 3 centimeters and blooms late in the year. A nice surprise because there is not much blooming in your garden then. #flower #bloomscrolling #flowers #blumen #fleurs #photography #fediflowers #gardensofpixelfed #gardens #nature #fotografie #macro #macrophotography #macrophoto
The front of a (in reality small) flower fills the entire photo. It looks like an orchid, with 6 white petals, pink and dark red dotted. In the middle a long pistil that splits at the end into 3 parts each in the shape of a Y. These are also white and dark red dotted. Along the edges are tiny little balls. The six stamens with lilac anthers are a little lower in a whorl around the pistil. The background is vague and green.
#macrophoto
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Mark McCaughrean

And as the garden wasn't entirely free of insects, here's a bonus #BugOfTheDay.

My best guess is that it's a privet leafhopper (Fieberiella florii), but I'm open to corrections.

I only grabbed a quick picture before it, umm, hopped away, & the depth of field isn't great.

But it captures the lovely orange, white, & black striped compound eye nicely, along with texture around the head, so it's worth posting 🤷‍♂️

#Photography 📷
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

A close-up picture of a small greenish bug with orange stripes sitting on some green leaves. It has compound eyes which are orange with horizontal white and black stripes. The background is also green and out-of-focus.
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Mark McCaughrean

A bit of a mystery for today's #BugOfTheDay 🤨

I'd given up on finding many insects in the garden today, as it was fairly cold. So I decided to take a picture of this pretty peach-leaved bellflower (Campanula persicifolia), only to discover a rather lethargic bee cosied up inside 🐝

I suspect that it's a mining bee of the Andrena genus, but can anyone identify it more specifically? 🧐

#Photography 📷
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

A small black bee with sparse rufous hairs sitting at the base of the three-pronged white stamen inside a lilac-coloured flower. The background is green and out-of-focus.
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