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Deserts Nature on a walk in Withyham, purple thistle with a bumble bee, the first time I had used the macro on my Olympus Camedia C-160, taken in August 2004
Cabbage White Butterfly (Pieris Rapae) front and side view, wings closed, on purple flower of Canada Thistle plant (Cirsium arvense), New York, USA. Despite its name, the Canada thistle is a plant of European origin.
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The Twin Towers of the Assembly Halls of the Church of Scotland, barely visible through the mist and between the thistles. A bumble bee on the flowering purple thistle.
bumble bee climbing into the bell shaped flower of a Rhododendron to collect nectar and pollinate the flower. pollen is collected in baskets formed by hairs on their legs, Nectar is stored in their stomachs
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Cabbage White Butterfly (Pieris Rapae) side view, wings closed, on purple flower of Canada Thistle plant (Cirsium arvense), New York, USA. Despite its name, the Canada thistle, a weed, actually is native to Europe.