Insects and Flowers

Various insects, including bumblebees and butterflies, feeding on colorful flowers like Cosmos and Cuckoo flower, showcasing vivid natural beauty.

Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) on Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis), Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

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Bumblebee feeding on Cosmos flower. Cosmos sulphureus. Bumblebee: Bombus species. Garden in Amado, Arizona, USA.

Insect in the small new leaves in spring, Macro shoot

Brown skipper on a flower Small skipper on a flower

Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) on Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis), Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

Syrphid fly on a Mint flower in July

A hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) hovering to drink from a blossom

Goldenrod Spider (Misumena vatia) white form, silk thread emission, on garden aster, Bouxieres aux dames, Lorraine, France

Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) male, Lorraine, France

Closeup of a white cabbage butterfly on a flower

Common grass-veneer (Agriphila tristella), Insects, Moths, Butterflies, Animals, Other animals, Common grass-veneer adult, resting on flowerhead in garden, Sowerby, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Close-up of honey bee keeping nectar in wet flower

Marienkäfer, plant louse, Coccinella Septempunctata, Coccinellidae ** Ladybird, plant louse, LadyBetles FU1-NFP

Stink bullets in the larvae stage stinccolate in the larval stage

Walking flower mantises (Hymenopus coronatus), Animals, Other animals, Insects, Mantis, Orchid mantis adult pair, mating, smaller male on back of larger female, Malaysia, Asia

Gottesanbeterin mantis Copyright: xZoonar.com/HendrikxFuchsx 6180899

Große Spinnenragwurz Spinnenragwurz, Ophyrys sphegodes Copyright: xZoonar.com/AndreasxPulweyx 1975760

Orange-tip Butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) adult male, roosting on Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea) flower, Powys, Wales, May

Shorthorned Grasshopper (Valanga nigricornis) sitting on tree with yellow sunlight in urban park

snail on the grass in the forest

Broad-bordered Bee Hawk Moth Hemaris fuciformis feeding on Water Mint Mentha aquatica, Saint-Julien-des-Landes, France, July.

Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum), Lower Austria, Austria, Europe

Female eastern amberwing, Perithemis tenera, Half Moon Wildlife Management Area, Florida

Orange tip (Anthocharis cardamines) on Cuckoo flower (Cardamine pratensis) in spring

Spotted Orchis(Dactylorhiza maculata) and hoverfly (syrphus sp), Alsace, France

Flat-faced longhorn beetle (Agapanthia cardui)

Scorpionfly Panorpa sp.} on Meadow / Common bistort Bistorta officinalis} Gran Paradiso NP, Alps, Italy

A honey bee collects honey on a flower, bee on a yellow flower close up on a sunny spring day

Daisy with critter

Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) sitting on fennel in the garden, Canton Bern, Switzerland, Europe

a blister beetle eating on a milkweed plant in a garden

RED ADMIRAL (Vanessa atalanta) flying around Eucalyptus, the nectar from its flowers is a popular food sauce in late autumn

Twelve-spotted Skimmer male on Water Canna

Close up of honey bee pollinating on White Snakeroot

Grosser Wollschweber Bombylius major Grosser Wollschweber, Bombylius major, Large bee-fly, Bee fly Copyright: xZoonar.com/GerdxHerrmannx 15407359

Yellow faced bumblebee flitting around the flowers gathering pollen

Green-veined white butterfly (Pieris napi) on Cuckoo-flower (Cardamine pratensis), Belgium

Goldenrod crab spider, Misumena vatia, crab spider

buff-tailed bumblebee on yellow foxglove

Chameleon - Africa

Purple_throated Woodstar hummingbird Calliphlox mitchellii feeding at a flower while flying in the Tandayapa Valley of Ecuador.

Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea muscipula) with fly prey, native to North Carolina

Praying mantis¶ÿclimbing on branches of flowering plant

Bee Orchid Summer - Lancashire, UK. Date:

Goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia), female on the flower of a daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Thread Lacewing - Lesvos Greece

Close-up of two butterflies, Green-veined White Pieris napi, sitting on yellow wild flowers. In the background green meadow and yellow flowers. There is space for text. Close-up of two butterflies, Green-veined White Pieris napi, sitting on yellow wild flowers. In the background green meadow and yellow flowers. There is space for text. Copyright: xZoonar.com/UlrikexLeonex 22150278

USA, California, Anza Borrego Desert State Park. White-lined sphinx moth caterpillar eating flower.

Wren in a park in Paris, Ile de France, France.

Portrait of Southern Festoon (Zerynthia polyxena), on dandelion seeds, Europe.

Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) feeding on a flower of purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), light and black background, Wilden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Green lacewing in flight and flower Burgundy France

Dragonfly in the Reeds A red dragonfly stands on a Typha latifolia leaf close to the water under the warm summer sun Copyright: xZoonar.com/AlainxdexMaximyx 8629204

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Bee Ragwort (Ophrys apifera), Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Zebra Orchid (Caladenia cairnsiana) flower being pollinated by male parasitic wasp which is attracted to the flower by faux female wasp pheromone, western Australia

Image of Moth is sucking nectar from flowers on a natural background. Moth hawk. Insects. Animals.

Variable crab spider, female, lurking on an orchid flower for prey, morning, July, NSG Kendlmuehlfilzn, Grassau, Chiemgau, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Narrow-leaved bee (Lasioglossum calceatum) on bluebells (Centaurea jacea), Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Small Elephant Hawk-moth Bavaria Germany

Europaeische Gottesanbeterin Mantis religiosa Europäische Gottesanbeterin, Mantis religiosa, European mantis Copyright: xZoonar.com/GerdxHerrmannx 22456723

Speckled Yellow moth (Pseudopanthera macularia)

Lemon butterfly on the helmet bean

Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing (Noctua janthina), on ragwort (Senecio jacobaea), Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Praying Mantis (Mantis religiosa) on an Aster, Sunflower Family (Asteraceae) Pennsylvania, USA

Eastern carpenter bees on coral vine

Rheinhold's Bee Orchid (Ophrys reinholdii) close-up of flower, Peloponesos, Southern Greece, april

Willow Emerald Damselfly (Lestes viridis), female, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Distelfalter Vanessa cardui Distelfalter Vanessa cardui Copyright: xZoonar.com/AichingerxThomasx 701877

Spider on the web in the forest . Spider on the web

A artistic shot of a praying mantis

A close view of a butterfly perched on delicate white blossoms, Poland

Mating of Ellipsidion humerale cockroaches, Dampier, Western Australia.

Ophrys bee variant hyprochrome (Ophrys apifera), Guidel, Morbihan, Brittany, France

Raft Spider (Dolomedes fimbriatus) with cocoon, Muehlleiten, Lower Austria, Austria, Europe

Kalliope-Kolibri, Selasphorus calliope, sitzend im Gebüsch in Oaxaca, Mexiko A close up of a female calliope hummingbird, Selasphorus calliope, perched amongst bushes and pink flowers in the Sierra de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico. Copyright: xZoonar.com/RobertxBriggsx 21403383

House cat playing in the yard among flowers after a rain

Speckled bush cricket (Leptophytes punctatissima) leaping, Sussex, England. Controlled conditions.

Emperor Moth (Pavonia pavonia) eggs with freshly hatched caterpillar, Engbertsdijksvenen, Overijssel, Netherlands

Empusa fasciata - conehead mantis

Centipede on yellow flower

Common Darter female on seed head

vagrant sympetrum , Sympetrum vulgatum

Meadow brown(Maniola jurtina) in a meadow just before the appearance of the sun. Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

Praying mantis on heathland flower in Saxony Lusatia during summer

Katydid (Saga hellenica), Corfu, Greece

Europaeische Gottesanbeterin, Gottesanbeterin Mantis religiosa, sitzt kopfueber an Lavendel, Frankreich European preying mantis Mantis religiosa, sits upside down on lavender, France BLWS721905 *** european Praying mantis, Praying Mantis Mantis religiosa , sits head over to Lavender, France European preying Mantis Mantis religiosa , sits UPSIDE Down ON lavender, France BLWS721905 Copyright: xblickwinkel/AGAMI/T.xDoumax

Fly Ragwort (Ophrys insectifera), Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Bumblebee (Bombus) on a cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), Bavaria, Germany, Europe

sleeping red-eyed frog

Senfweissling Leptidea sinapis Senfweißling, Leptidea sinapis, Wood white LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/GerdxHerrmannx 23386204

Close-up, yellow shell (Camptogramma bilineata), Neustadt am Ruebenberge, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Five Spot Burnet Moth - Cornwall, UK. Date:

Black negro ant (Formica fusca), adult worker, tending aphids on common heather (Calluna vulgaris), Powys, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe

Goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia) on Zinnia (Zinnia elegans), Hesse, Germany, Europe

Common Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus) adult, resting on flowerbud, England, United Kingdom, Europe

butterfly insect garden nature

Aveyron Bee Orchid, Ophrys aveyronensis - endemic to the Cernon Valley, France.

Goldenrod Crab Spider (Misumena vatia) on purple flower, Europe

Blue -winged Ödlandschrecke Oedipoda Caerulescens blue -winged Ödlandschreck Oedipoda Caerulescens. The red -wing Oedipus Germanica can also be found at the location of the recording, please check determination before use. Both types are hardly distinguished without any doubt with closed wings.

Crab spider (Ozyptila praticola) and False Blister Beetle (Oedemera podagrariae) on milfoil (Achillea millefolium) in a wet meadow along the Rhine, National Nature Reserve of the Rohrschollen Island, Strasbourg, Alsace, France.

Macro Sulphur Phoebis Agarithe Butterfly

Goldenrod Crab Spider (Misumena vatia) - female

Zebra spider ( Salticus scenicus) on a purple petal, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Bee orchid (Ophrys apifera)

Orange nectar bat (Lonchophylla robusta), Laguna del Lagarto, Alajuela, Costa Rica

Blackcap feeding on Elderberries

Goldenrod crab spider, Misumena vatia, crab spider

swallowtail Caterpillar on fennel flower. swallowtail Caterpillar on fennel

Hummingbird hawk-moth (Asclepias syriaca) feeding on Common Milkweed plant. Bumblebee in background on separate blossom, near Thunder Bay, Ontario, Ca...

Moris' Orchid (Ophrys mosisii) Dorgali, Sardinia, Italy, Europe

Buffalo treehopper on a Raspberry rod Alsace France

Bumblebee orchid (Ophrys bombyliflora), Majorca, Spain, Europe

Brown Owl-sitting on a stump,Czech Republic Date:

Spotted cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima), in mixed deciduous forest in Salzburg, Austria

Large Spider Orchid, Spider Orchid, Orchids, Early Spider Orchid (Ophrys sphegodes) close-up of flowerspike, Gargano Peninsula, Apulia, Italy, Europe

Crab spider (Misumena vatia) butterfly, on flower, Burgenland, Austria, Europe

Pink Orchid Mantid (Hymenopus coronatus), Malaysia

Bee Orchid flowering head

A snail clings to a branch in Prado del Rey, Cadiz province, Andalusia, Spain.

A brown earwig sits on a green leaf / Forficula auricularia. Blurred background

Green grasshopper posed in the middle of a Lavender field

Flowering Bat Face Cuphea (Cuphea llavea)

USA, Oregon. Ladybug on lupine flower.

Speckled bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) in rose blossom (Rosa)

Goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia), female, Valais, Switzerland, Europe

White-lipped Grove Snail (Cepaea hortensis) hortensis) on Knapweed (Centaurea sp) flower, Bavaria, Germany

Honeybees on jasmine blossom, jasmine, June, insect pasture, bee pasture, garden shrub, Schwäbisch Hall, Hohenlohe, Germany, Europe

Green tree frog on garden flower.

USA, California, Anza Borrego Desert State Park. White-lined sphinx moth caterpillars eating flower.

Ampfer-Rindeneule Acronicta rumicis Ampfer-Rindeneule, Acronicta rumicis, Knot grass, Raupe, Caterpillar, Knot grass caterpillar Copyright: xZoonar.com/GerdxHerrmannx 12513347

Yellow-banded Poison Arrow Frog (Dendrobates leucomelas) in Orchid

Ladybird and Violets (Coccinella 7-punctata) Germany

Bee orchid (Ophrys apifera), Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Locust Borer Beetle (Megacyllene robiniae) NY feeding on Goldenrod Pollen

beautiful dragonfly

Orange tip (Anthocharis cardamines), adult male, resting on bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) flowers in garden, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Caterpillar of the atlas moth (Attacus atlas), early stage, found in Southeast Asia

Goldfinch (Cardeulis cardeulis), adult bird feeding on ripe sunflower seed heads, Hesse, Germany, Europe

Large earth bumblebee (Bombus terrestris), on Montbretia (Crocosmia), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Large duck orchid (Caleana major) flowers with appearance of flying mallard ducks. Tasmania, Australia. December.

Larva of Great green bush-cricket on a clover Bugey France

Lemon butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni), Lemon butterfly on lavender, Schwaebisch Hall, Hohenlohe, Heilbronn-Franken, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Mist bee eristalis tenax on a flake flower Centaurea Mistbee Eristalis Tenax on a flake flower Centaurea

La pierid (Pieridae), Other animals, Insects, Butterflies, Animals, Gomera Cleopatra (Gonepteryx eversi) adult, feeding on flower, La Gomera, Canary Islands

Dusky clearwing (Paranthrene tabaniformis), on goldenrod (Solidago), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Ostrich Looking At You

Rufous_backed Inca_Finch Incaspiza personata perched on a branch in Peru.

Late Spider-orchid (Ophrys holoserica), inflorescence, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Ophrys tenthredinifera

Six-spot burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae) on Peach-leaved bellflower (Campanula persicifolia) woodland, Savoie, France, June. meetyourneighbours.net project

Rufous-Backed Inca-Finch (Incaspiza Personata) Perched On A Branch In Peru.

Bee Orchid - in flower (Ophrys apifera)

Yellow hornet insect on green leaves

Fly Orchid (Ophrys insectifera) close-up of flower and flowerbud, Oxfordshire, England, June

a menacing and clear sharp spider spread out and resting upon the span of a leaf in the garden forest waiting for some prey to catch and eat insects flies bugs

Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularia) Juneau, AK, Alaska

Euphoria Beetle (Euphoria fulgida) collecting nectar from a thistle flower, central Texas

Tree shrike (Celastrus orbiculatus), Britzer Garten, Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe

little spiderhunter, (Arachnothera longirostra), Kaeng Krachan, Thailand, Asia

Tricolor dart frog.

Fly Orchid (Ophrys insectifera), Bargau, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Early Spider Orchid (Ophrys sphegodes), Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Thailand, Khon kaen, Silk Moth (Indian strain) caterpillars eating leaves of Mon Saparon

Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum 'Hortblue Poppins'), Marquardt, Brandenburg, Germany, Europe