Duke Gardens, July 2012

by | Jul 28, 2012 | Daily life, Garden

Last weekend we went to Duke Gardens to check out the summer flowers and to exercise my macro lens. The flowers were as impressive as ever, but the insect life was also quite interesting:

dinner

notice the bees’ head is not really attached… Leandra was simultaneously fascinated and grossed out.

Eastern tiger swallowtail

Eastern tiger swallowtail with bonus background bee

water lily

pond lily

busy bee

bumblebee and zinnia

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