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Lime flowers

Lime flowers

This year the flowers of the lime trees seem to have been producing even more pollen than usual.

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Bees feeding

First a bumble bee and then a honey bee busily remove nectar from this flower.

Watch out for a small beetle on the blossom on the lower left of the picture in this video.

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Spider

Spider

This delicate spider was weaving its web in an outhouse.

Spider

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Elder flower

Elder flower

These tiny and abundant flowers can also be used to make a herbal tea.

Elder flower

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Foxglove flowers

Foxglove

An unmistakable wayside summer flower.

Foxglove

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Dock

Dock flower

Dock, the friend of anyone who has just been stung by a nettle. Here the flower, looking very similar to those of the related sorrel

Dock plant

And here, the whole plant.

Dock

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Bees on cranesbills

Bee

Bees visiting two different species of cranesbills.

Bee

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Thistle

Thistle

The characteristic purple flowers of this thistle are starting to come out.

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More damsel flies

Damsel fly

More of the damsel flies on the pool at Wightwick Manor in early June.

Damsel fly

The electric blue species were not pausing at all.

Damsel fly

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Lacy elder leaf

Elder leaf

This elder leaf  has been reduced to a skeleton of its toughest parts by insects eating it.

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Sycamore leaf

Sycamore leaf

The red flecks, common on sycamore leaves, are a result of insect activity.

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New pine cones

Pine cones

Newly forming cones from two types of pine trees.

Pine cones