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Bumblebees on Phacelia Tanacetifolia

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Gathering the purple pollen on the hind leg pollen baskets

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Some bees have yellow pollen from other flowers they've just come from

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The purple pollen will be added on top of the yellow

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The next photo shows some mites on the back of a bee's neck where they can't be easily removed by the bee.

Some mites are harmless and some may even act as cleaners

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A bee with it's mouth parts extended as it approaches a flower.

It also has a mite on it's side

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The next three images seem to show what I assume could be purple pollen or some other element of the flowers on the bee's extended mouth parts.

Specifically on the front of the galeae.

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Various photos

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Red Clover
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Bright-Line Brown-Eye Moth Caterpillar, Brown Form, Lacanobia Oleracea, Noctuidae Family
AKA 'Tomato Moth'

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Female Gasteruption Jaculator, Parasitic Ichneumon Wasp.
Uses it's extra long ovipositor to push through the soil barrier of solitary bee or wasp nest entrances to lay it's eggs on the body of their larvae. Upon hatching, its larvae will devour grubs and its victim's supplies of pollen and nectar.

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Male False Oil Beetle, Thick-Legged Flower Beetle or Swollen-Thighed Beetle, Oedemera Nobilis
The swollen thighs are unique to the male
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Aglais io, European Peacock, or Peacock Butterfly
Showing the dorsal side in the following images with it's primary defense measure of the eye spot markings that mimic ground predators with the effect of deterring birds that prey on the butterfly such as the Blue Tit.
It also makes a hissing sound but this is more effective at deterring rodents while on the ground where a darker environment limits the effectiveness of the eye spots.
It can also use it's ventral side to mimic leaves.
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Green Shield Bug on an Autumn Bliss raspberry
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Sheltering among the spines
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There were also some sheltering beneath dead Red Clover flowers during rainfall

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Just realised in the last four images I'd managed to photo a female as well after observing the slim thighs as opposed to the swollen thighs of the male in the previous photos. Seems they were enjoying the various Asteraceae family members of flowers that they're specifically fond of.
 
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