Heather Angel Gallery

Chinese peacock butterfly (Papilio bianor) drinking nectar from a Hibiscus flower

Chinese peacock butterfly (Papilio bianor) drinking nectar from a Hibiscus flower. To maintain position it flaps the wings which pick up pollen on their undersides from the stamens placed on the end of a long column. A green praying mantid is on the right watching, Yunnan, China

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Angiosperm, Angiospermae, Animal, Animalia, Arthropod, Arthropoda, Asia, Butterfly, China, Chinese Peacock Butterfly, Colour, Dicot, Dicotyledon, East Asia, Flower, Flowering Plant, Hexapod, Hexapoda, Hibiscus, Insect, Insecta, Invertebrate, Lepidoptera, Lepidopterans, Magnoliopsida, Mallow, Malvaceae, Malvales, Mauve, Papilio, Papilio Bianor, Papilionid, Papilionidae, Plant, Plantae, Pollination, Red, Rosanae, Rosemallow, Rosid, Seed Plant, Spermatophyte, Spermatophytina, Swallowtail Butterfly, Tracheophyta, Vascular Plant, Wildlife, Yunnan Province

Cambridge vagrant butterfly (Nepheronia thalassina) nectaring on Lantana (Lantana camara)

Cambridge vagrant butterfly (Nepheronia thalassina) nectaring on Lantana (Lantana camara). Flowers turn from yellow to pink when no nectar is provided. In garden, Tanzania. Native to tropical Americas

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Africa, Alien, Alien Species, Animal, Animalia, Arthropod, Arthropoda, Butterfly, Cambridge Vagrant, East Africa, Eronia Thalassina Sinalata, Exotics, Feeding, Flower, Foraging, Hexapod, Hexapoda, Insect, Insecta, Introduced Species, Invasive, Invertebrate, Lepidoptera, Lepidopterans, Nectaring, Nepheronia, Nepheronia Thalassina, Papilionoidea, Pieridae, Plant, Pollination, Tanzania, Wildlife

Seep monkey flower (Mimulus guttatus), bifid stigma above stamens. Nectar spot guides

Seep monkey flower (Mimulus guttatus), bifid stigma above stamens. Nectar spot guides and central groove leading pollinators to nectar. Focus stacked

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Angiosperm, Angiospermae, Anther, Anthers, Asteranae, Asterid, Black Background, Carpel, Carpels, Close Up, Colour, Common Monkey Flower, Cutout, Dicot, Dicotyledon, Flower, Flowering Plant, Indoors, Lamiales, Magnoliopsida, Mimulus, Mimulus Equinus, Mimulus Guttatus, Mimulus Langsdorffii, Mimulus Procerus, Monkey Flower, Monkeyflower, Petal, Petals, Phrymaceae, Pistil, Pistils, Plain Background, Plant, Plantae, Reproduce, Reproducing, Reproduction, Seed Plant, Seep Monkeyflower, Spermatophyte, Spermatophytina, Stamen, Stamens, Stigma, Stigmas, Studio Shot, Tracheophyta, Vascular Plant, Yellow