LSHPhotography

25/10/2024

🐝🌼Hoverflies🌼🐝

Hoverflies are crucial pollinators. Their hairy bodies brush against the flower’s stigmas, and pollen is transferred between the fly and the flower. Although they carry less pollen on their bodies than bees, hoverflies compensate by visiting more flowers. Like bumblebees, most hoverflies are generalists and will visit many different types of plants. With a particular preference is thought to be yellow and white flowers.

It is also believed that hoverflies provide critical ecosystem functions, such as crop protection from pests, recycling of organic matter and long-distance pollen transfer.

Photo: Sunfly by LSHPhotography

15/10/2024

07/10/2024

My first ever Fly Agaric mushroom
The absolute cassic fairy mushroom 🍄
Blean woods, kent
Taken on d100 canon

05/10/2024

The European Comma is a funny example of how much an animal can change after metamorphosis. The caterpilla of the Comma is very well camouflaged, but unlike other caterpillars who look like sticks and leaves it resembles bird droppings.

04/10/2024

Summer may be over, but the bees aren't quite gone! As it grows cooler, you will still spot bees and hoverflies buzzing about. Even though theres less flowers, these pollinators continue their work well into autumn. They're vital for helping plants prepare for winter. There are very few native plants these bees can continue to live on, this is why when planning your gardens and hedgerows you should plant in flowering stages to give them the best chance for winter.

03/10/2024

Finally seen the Pallas Cat at Port Lympne Hotel & Reserve Port Lympne Wild Animal Park

27/09/2024

The giraffes at Wingham Wildlife Park

26/09/2024

Beautiful trust between the elephants and keepers at Howletts Wild Animal Park

25/09/2024

24/09/2024

Crowned lemur at Howletts Wild Animal Park