Images Dated 2019 December

Wasp walking around a Spanish love-in-a-mist (Nigella hispanica) flower to sip nectar

Wasp walking around a Spanish love-in-a-mist (Nigella hispanica) flower to sip nectar from ring of blue nectaries, thorax and abdomen pick up pollen from downward facing anthers that swipe over the wasp's body

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Angiosperm, Angiospermae, Animal, Animalia, Arthropod, Arthropoda, Blue, Colour, Dicot, Dicotyledon, Flower, Flowering Plant, Hexapod, Hexapoda, Hymenoptera, Insect, Insecta, Invertebrate, Magnoliopsida, Nigella, Nigella Hispanica, Plant, Plantae, Pollination, Ranunculaceae, Ranunculales, Ranunculanae, Seed Plant, Spermatophyte, Spermatophytina, Tracheophyta, Vascular Plant, Wasp, Wasps, Wildlife

21 Dec 2019

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Animal, Animalia, Arctic Loon, Aves, Bird, Birds, Black Throated Diver, Black Throated Loon, Catalogue13, Diver, Europe, Finland, Gavia, Gavia Arctica, Gaviidae, Gaviiformes, Loon, Nordic Countries, North Europe, Northern Europe, Vertebrate, Wildlife

Veined Octopus, Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus, formerly Octopus marginatus)

Veined Octopus, Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus, formerly Octopus marginatus), inhabiting discarded bivalve mollusc shells, which it collects and pulls around itself - defense, shelter, intelligent tool-using invertebrate.
Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

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Amphioctopus, Amphioctopus Marginatus, Animal, Animalia, Asia, Biodiversity Hotspot, Cephalopod, Cephalopoda, Hiding, Homes, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Invertebrate, Invertebrates, Marine, Mollusc, Mollusca, Ocean, Octopoda, Octopodidae, Octopus, Octopus Marginatus, Octopus Striolatus, Saltwater, South East Asia, Sulawesi, Tropical, Underwater, Veined Octopus, Wallacea, Water, Wildlife