When I began this post I saw a gray and rainy December day outside of my window. On such days it makes fun digging in the archive and search for nice Spring and Summer photos.
Miss Daisy and her Visitors
Let's begin with the main actor or better said with the main actress in this post: Miss Daisy can be seen in many different shapes and sizes, and sometimes she even isn't white and yellow, but in this post I show the well known white&yellow colored ones of the Daisy family ... and I show you some of the visitors she gets during the day.
Actually, I wanted to find some big insects in my archive and post them especially for @papilloncharity to show him how big our insects can be.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any which might have been able to compete with South African insects (what a surprise 😉) and let my friend open his mouth to say a surprised "oh", although the Hoverfly (Eristalis tenax) below was quite a huge one ;) lol
I am not 100 percent sure, but this guy must be a beetle called Hoplia argentea. I couldn't find much information about this beetle on Wikipedia (Hoplia argentea), but he must have been very tired, because it seems he is holding onto the petals and is sleeping.
Wikipedia says, the Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies with over 6,000 species worldwide, and I have no idea to which subfamily these two little beauties belong.
But I remember that they have been flying together and had much fun waiting for me to get in position for a photo and then suddenly fly to the next flower. These are the only reasonable nice photos I could get until I gave up.
Last but not least, about a month after I have taken the above photos I have found this Longhorn Beetle (Anastrangalia sanguinolenta) on a couple of small Daisy flowers during a walk at the reservoir.
To end this post as it began I have one more photo of a small Daisy early in the morning. The sun was just about rising and the still closed flower was full of dew drops.
Well, while I was editing the photos and preparing the post the rain has turned into snow and the world outside is getting white again. I wonder how long the snow will stay this time, but there are still a couple of weeks till we will have a hopefully white Christmas.
All photos were taken with the Canon EOS R and the SIGMA 105mm 1:2,8 DG MACRO HSM lens. If you are interested in the image data, I leave all EXIF and IPTC information stored in the pictures.
Apart from the Longhorn Beetle and the last photo of the wet Daisy I have taken the photos in the end of May in my parent's garden.
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