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Dragonfly an efficient hunter on fruit tree

$Tot 30-39mm, Ab 25-32mm, HW 19-23mm.\nOur most delicate Lestes, which is normally easily separated by its statue and coloration, although some Iberian populations recall L. barbarous.\nHabitat: A wide variety of seasonally dry shallow and reedy waters in the south, becoming more critical in the north-west, where it is most abundant in heath and bog lakes with peat moss (Sphagnum) and rushes (Juncus).\nFlight Season: Northern populations mostly emerge in July, flying into November.\nDistribution: Widespread in Europe, although seldom the dominant Lestes species. Distribution recall L. barbarous, and also tends to wander like that species, though rarely in similarly great numbers.\n\nThis Species is to be seen in the describe Habitats, but not as common as L. sponsa in the Netherlands.$

Galanthus nivalis was described by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum in 1753, and given the specific epithet nivalis, meaning snowy (Galanthus means with milk-white flowers).

A pair of lesser emperor laying eggs in the pond.

In the meadow, among wild herbs the comfrey (Symphytum officinale) is blooming

A flower-spike of Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) growing in its typically wet, boggy habitat in central Scotland in mid-summer. The species has a long history of herbal use, traditionally being used as an anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, diuretic, and tonic since ancient times in druidic England.

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wild bears garlic (Allium ursinum) in the forest in the spring

$Tot: 45-50mm, Ab 30-37mm, Hw 33-38mm.\nIdentification:\nVery similar to O. cancellatum, with which it is found especially in the south-east, and as far west as France. However, it is sleeker, paler and more contrasting. Named for the contrasting white appendages of both sexes.\nBehavior:\nLike O. cancellatum, male often sits on open ground near the water, making very fast, low flights over the water.\nOccurrence:\nDistribution is patchy, but the species is generally not uncommon, stretching to China and Japan.\nHabitat: Open Ponds and Lakes.\nFlight Season: From the end of May to mid-September.\n\nThis nice Skimmer is photographed during a Vacation in France in May 1990. Scanned from a slide.$

A male migrant hawker hanging from a bramble in the English countryside.

Salvia leucantha, commonly called Mexican bush sage, is an evergreen perennial that is native to Central America and Mexico. It is grown as an annual in average. This sage is noted for producing a very attractive late summer to autumn bloom of showy bi-color flowers consisting of white corollas and longer-lasting purple calyxes. Flowers appear in dense, arching, terminal spikes.

It is a perennial herb with a bulb 3.5-18 cm in diameter, often somewhat protruding from the ground, ovoid or subglobose, with brown, reddish-brown, grayish-brown outer tunics. brown-blackish, sometimes whitish.

Euphorbia heterophylla plant that grows wild.

Broad-leaved cattail is native flower in north America. Broadleaf cattail, bulrush, common bulrush, common cattail

$Identification:\nTot 57-66mm, Ab 39-49mm, Hw 37-42mm.\nIn flight often confused with the related and similar small A. mixta. Ranges less far north, but also migratory and may be invasive in good summers.\nMales are often observed when making low patrols over drying wetlands, showing their noticeable bright colors. The males vivid blue eyes and abdomen and largely green thorax sides are especially distinctive.\nHabitat: Prefers standing waters that dry up over the course of Summer, often overgrown with low rushes, bulrushes or reeds.\nFlight Season: On average, emerges earlier than A. mixta. Seen mainly from May to August, especially in the later months.\nDistribution: Seldom abundant, and only permanently present around the Mediterranean, but scarce in much of Iberia and North Africa. Hot summer weather may lead to influxes further north. Occurs east to Mongolia.\n\nThis Picture is made in a Fen area in Flevoland in half August 2022 by high Summer temperatures.$

Dragon-fly, view from above, blue - black, big, sitting on a rock, wings spreaded out, USA, Kenai Peninsula

Sacred bamboo’s bloom (nandina domestica) in the park , Hong Kong

Beautifully colored flowers at the Sydney Botanical Gardens

A dragonfly is posing on a tree in the garden

$Short perennial, the stem with several brown sheaths at the base. Leaves oblong, keeled, shiny-green, the upper leaves smaller and bract-like. Bracts membranous, shorter than the ovary. Flowers greenish-yellow, often with reddish margins and streaks, borne in a slender spike, often many-flowered, each flower manikin-like, with the sepals and petals forming a close hood; lip 12-15mm, pendent, the lateral lobes forming short, narrow ‘arms’ and the central lobe divided into narrow legs; spurless.\nHabitat: Grassland, field boundaries, abandoned quarries, banks and open scrub, rarely along woodland margins, on calcareous soils, to 1500m.\nFlowering Season: May-June.\nDistribution: S & SE Britain, Belgium, Holland, France and Germany.\n\nThis Picture is made during a long weekend in the Eifel (Germany) in June 2019.$

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