Sunday, June 28, 2009

Beauty And The Mini Beast

What a great combination, one of my favourite flowers and a Thick legged beetle.

The male beetle can be this or turquoise in colour and feeds on the pollen of plants. I see it a lot on ox-eyed daises, as I suppose with them being an open flower they are easy to feed from.

7 comments:

Crafty Green Poet said...

wonderful photo, so well composed and what a great beetle, fully deserving of its name...

Bird said...

I just discovered this beetle quite recently... there was a lovely male one on our broad beans :)

Wurzerl said...

I love your picture Mark - well done.

Have a great time! Wurzerl

trader said...

super photo

Chrissy said...

Lovely image, funny what you find when you google yourself, well done on the award too :D

Wow Gold said...

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Wow Gold said...

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