Bugs 'n Things

We have noticed more bugs this year than in other years. I think they thrive when it is warm and dry. Fortunately, we have had very few mosquitoes and we attribute that to the dry spring. When we sit in our garden in the cool of the day, the flowers are vibrating with many varieties of bees and wasps, and here, as in this photo, also a colourful moth. I have never seen this before. The humming birds like red, but also flowers with long dark tunnels that conceal their nectar. The bees, on the other hand, need the pollen right out there so they do not get trapped inside. Their long legs are often hanging down with yellow pollen and still they drone over to the next blossom.

And then there are the black dragon flies. I have never seen them before but we have them now. They are strange in that they do not like the flowers so much because one usually sees them sitting on some piece of concrete somewhere. I guess there are some people who have no appreciation for flowers either.