Volucella zonaria, the Hornet Mimic Hoverfly (info and image from Wikipedia)
A Fly to Eye
Category Archives: Entomology
Scale Supremacy
Orange-tip butterfly ♂, Anthocharis cardamines
lepidoptera, n. a large order of insects comprising the butterflies and moths. ← Greek λεπιδο-, “scale” + πτερόν, “wing” — Oxford English Dictionary
Glow with the Flow #2
Glowworms above the Waitomo Stream, Waitomo Glowworm Cave, New Zealand (Image)
Previously Pre-Posted…
• Glow with the Flow #1
Bees Please Me
Royal Mail Bee-Stamp Set by Richard Lewington, August 2015
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• Richard Lewington — personal website
Fib and Let Eye
An ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum sp.) with a harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis, sitting at its center
Peri-Performative Post-Scriptum…
The title of this incendiary intervention refers to
1) The Fibonacci sequence present in the beautiful interlocking curves at the heart of the
2) daisy, whose name comes from Anglo-Saxon dæges ēage, meaning “day’s eye”.
3) The eye-like appearance of the daisy, with the ladybird like a slightly off-centered pupil
Gamma Gamma Hey!
Silver Y Moth, Autographa gamma (Linnaeus 1758)
Summer’s Hummer
Hummingbird hawk-moth, Macroglossum stellatarum (Linnaeus, 1758)
(click for larger)
Bee Here Now
Russian Bee Stamps 2005
British Bee Stamps 2015
Elsewhere other-accessible
• Royal Mail bee stamps designed to raise awareness of species
BB’s Butterfly
Illustration of a swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon) by Denys Watkins-Pitchford (1905-90), who used the pen-name of BB for books like The Little Grey Men (1942)
For Flake’s Sake
It caught my eye, it caught my eye,
That fluttering flake of fallen sky.
It rode the wind as cars bored by
And did not die:
And shall not die,
That fluttering flake of fallen sky.
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
A poem written months ago about a briefly glimpsed blue butterfly flying along — and over — a busy road. I don’t know the species, but Polyommatus icarus seems a reasonable guess.
