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A butterfly sits on a flower in Obergünzburg, Germany. The coldest start to spring for half a century has led to many butterflies emerging weeks later than usual, said a Butterfly Conservation report
Photograph: Karl-josef Hildenbrand/AFP/Getty Images
(Source: Guardian)
Ladybird in flight in a garden in Pennsylvania
Picture: LINDEN GLEDHILL / CATERS
A solitary bee drinks the tears from a yellow-spotted river turtle in Yasuní national park, Ecuador. The endangered yellow-spotted river turtle cannot easily brush them away while the solitary bee needs the sodium. The unusual interaction isbelieved to be the first time seen between these two animals.
Photograph: Olivier Dangles/Barcroft
(Source: Guardian)
A Jezebel (Delais eucharis) butterfly in the Dimah Conservation Butterfly Garden in Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Photograph: MA Pushpa Kumara/EPA
(Source: Guardian)
A bee is covered with pollen as it sits on a blade of grass in Klosterneuburg, Austria. The European commission announced this week that it would impose a temporary ban on three of the world’s most widely used pesticides because of fears they harm bees
Photograph: Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters
A wasp flies in front of a sunflower planted at the gates of the University of the Philippines
Photograph: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images
(Source: Guardian)
Florida, US: A honey bee at the J & P Apiary and Gentzel’s Bees, Honey and Pollination Company in Homestead
Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
(Source: Guardian)
A paper kite butterfly on a red carnation in the butterfly park in Klutz, Germany.
Photograph: Jens Buttner/AFP/Getty Images
(Source: Guardian)
Butterfly and Rhododendron by Julia Baverstock
Locusts on a road, Menabe, Madagascar
Photograph: Reuters
(Source: Guardian)
An orange tip in the spring rain.
Photograph: Julian Dowding/Butterfly Conservation
(Source: Guardian)
Eastern hercules beetle by Clay Bolt
Carpenter ants farm aphids for honeydew by Clay Bolt
Praying Mantis by Paul Harcourt Davies
Polistine wasp attacking a swallowtail butterfly
Photograph: Michael Siva-Jothy/BMC Ecology Image Competition
(Source: Guardian)
