Urban Butterfly Alliance
@peterpeatfree.bsky.social
🌱Gardening for 🦋 and 🐝 mainly pictures from my own garden, and the occasional road trip🐛 #WildSpaces #NaturGarten #OMSYSTEM #TG-7
They roost in clusters like this 😀
(Sadly I’ve got none in my garden yet this year)
(Sadly I’ve got none in my garden yet this year)
August 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
They roost in clusters like this 😀
(Sadly I’ve got none in my garden yet this year)
(Sadly I’ve got none in my garden yet this year)
Pantaloon Bee, Dasypoda hirtipes #SolitaryBees
August 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Pantaloon Bee, Dasypoda hirtipes #SolitaryBees
These are the cut leaf sections from a rose in my garden recently
August 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
These are the cut leaf sections from a rose in my garden recently
Think it would be quite hard for an insect to get a whole leaf into a cavity like that? Or roll it up first…
August 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Think it would be quite hard for an insect to get a whole leaf into a cavity like that? Or roll it up first…
Leafcutter bee?
August 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Leafcutter bee?
Nice clouded yellow!
August 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Nice clouded yellow!
👀 The wings not with eating then!?
July 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
👀 The wings not with eating then!?
These have disappeared from my area, as have the box plants…
July 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
These have disappeared from my area, as have the box plants…
That’s ragwort they’re on 🧐 (with echium growing very close)
July 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
That’s ragwort they’re on 🧐 (with echium growing very close)
Or can it change its colour as a warning?
July 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Or can it change its colour as a warning?
Is the pink colour reflected in the light then!? 🤯
July 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Is the pink colour reflected in the light then!? 🤯