The Peaceful End to the Day

Where the bees and butterflies hang out…

The Peaceful End to the Day – Richard Broom Photography

The Bug

The Bug – Richard Broom Photography

The Hang Glider Insect

Clear for take-off!!!

The Hang Glider Insect – Richard Broom Photography

The flowers and the odd frog…

The flowers and the odd frog – Richard Broom Photography

The Sound of Cretan Bees

Join me at the Vritomartis Naturist Resort close to Hora Sfakion, Crete as I listen to the very busy bees and other insects buzzing around large plants close to our beautiful room which overlooks the Libyan Sea. You might also hear the occasional bird!

The Sound of Cretan Bees

The Sound of Cretan Bees – Richard Broom Photography

The Beetle Sex Orgy

These tiny spotted beetles (top left of image) spent the whole day in the bush outside our room mating. Twosomes, threesomes, foursomes – beetles, it seems, have a really good and varied time in the mating season. Lucky them!

The Beetle Sex Orgy – Richard Broom Photography

The Bug

Clear for take off…

The Bug – Richard Broom Photography

The Bug

The Bug – Richard Broom Photography

The Bug

The Bug – Richard Broom Photography

The Horse Flies

It just shows, there is no accounting for taste when it comes to choosing a place to hang out!

The Horse Flies – Richard Broom Photography

The Oak Processionary Moth

We’ve spotted a number of these ‘nests’ made by the Oak Processionary Moths in nearby oak trees here in the Netherlands. We’ve never seen them ever before. That’s global warming for you Mr Trump!!!

But, before blaming Mr Trump too much, it looks like we British might be responsible for introducing this particular (and toxic) pest into Europe. More information here.

The Oak Processionary Moth – Richard Broom Photography

The Giant Moth

The Giant Moth – Richard Broom Photography

The Orgy

The Orgy – Richard Broom Photography

The Butterfly

The Butterfly

The Banana Lunch

Butterflies just LOVE bananas!

The Banana Lunch

The Bug

The Bug

The Life Hanging By A Thread

Do you ever get that feeling you’re hanging on by a thread?

The Life Hanging By A Thread

The Acorn

The Acorn

The Marching Ants

I didn’t notice the ants when taking the photography. Not sure what they’re doing!

The Marching Ants

The Curious Fruit

Not fruit at all but we were surprised when we found out what it was.  Clue: found on an oak tree.

The Curious Fruit

The Taste of Things to Come..

Some images from the forest coming up shortly:

Nuts, Berries and Leaves from Richard Broom on Vimeo.

The Snoozing Butterfly

Pssst…might be a moth!

The Snoozing Butterfly

The Very Important Sex Orgy Rule!

Rule 1: Never show up late (see previous post here)

The Very Important Rule!

The Sex Fest on a Thistle

More insect pornography!

The Sex Fest on a Thistle

The Sex Orgy

Promiscuous beetles seen today having open air sex.  Even threesome sex!  What little tinkers they are!

The Orgy

The Bee Question

If, as it appears, bees have eyes on the top of their heads.  How do they see where they are going?

The Bee Question

The Meeting

The Meeting

The Butterfly

I could be wrong but I think this is a Red Admiral…

The Butterfly

The Not Bee!

Tom very kindly corrected me. This is not a bee, it’s a hover fly!

The Not Bee!

The Splash of Red

The Splash of Red

The Bee and the Thistle

The Bee and the Thistle

The Dragonfly

The Dragonfly

The Start of Life

Probably one of the best ways to spend an afternoon in the woods…

The Start of Life

The Butterfly

The Butterfly

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