Heather Angel

Exciting news! My latest book - Planting for Pollinators. Scheduled for publication 22 June. Published by Bloomsbury. #pollinators #gardening #planting #flowers

To celebrate part 1 of David Attenborough’s fascinating programme #attenboroughslifeincolour last night, Darwin’s slipper flower Left: visible light Right: #UVlight The least seedsnipe - a bird - pollinates it & eats the white sweetlip as a reward #COLOUR #Flowers

Anyone help please with ID of a mosquito Culiseta? A male nectaring on Fatsia japonica in our Surrey garden 19 NOV 2020. We have a pond in the garden @DipteristsForum

Thanks for your fun quote “fucus vesiculosis is otherwise known as heather angel” which I had not heard before, here is the only Fucus vesiculosus image I can quickly find. @dlyons339

Taken in south China, a mother gibbon and her newborn is one of my favourite wildlife images. Other wildlife featured in Bradt’s Jan issue of The Travel Club e-zine. Sign up for your copy: bit.ly/2yiSrzi

RT "While studying the life cycle of bladderwrack seaweed in LC biology many moons ago, our teacher informed the class that “fucus vesiculosis is otherwise known as heather angel” @dlyons339 Well, I never knew that! Thanks for the useful snippet I am getting material for a memoir

Throughout 2020 I have been buying & growing plants to photograph floral visitors for a new book. It was a snug fit for a carder bee seeking nectar in honeywort - with the eyes inside I could get really close

Winter foragers 2019: honeybee picks up pollen as nectaring on Daphne bholua Jacqueline Postill. Tree bumblebee on sweet box (Sarcococca confusa) nectar. Fly on wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox Luteus) nectar. Buff-tailed bbee collects winter honeysuckle pollen

Thrilled to see the first flowers opening on a classy winter flowering clematis (Clematis napaulensis) in our unheated conservatory today. Thanks @crocusCoUk for my fav clematis to date. Reminiscent of purple grapes smothered in cream

Thanks Gillian You too. I am awaiting for buds on a rare winter clematis to open by Christmas!

This stunning flower is Cypella aquatilis from Brazil, which flowered in our Surrey pond in 2018 & 2019. Classified in Iridaceae – the iris family – it appears on our Christmas e-card this year

It is from the smoke tree (Cotinus coggyria) Yves. I noticed the lovely pattern for the first time this year, but left it too late to get a shot!

Short on ideas for Xmas presents? Check out many of my pollination shots & some China images now available as prints natureplprints.com/heather-angel/ Thanks to @naturepl there is a 15% offer code (NPLXMAS) until Xmas

@YVESWAUTHIER @wassila @NikonatGrays @HarrisonPhair @thenikongirl88 @NikonEurope @nikonownermag What a great shot with dew still intact and lovely backlighting. I shall have to look at my hibiscus more carefully before the bees start foraging.

Waking up #z6 #nikonmirrorless @wassila @NikonatGrays @HarrisonPhair @thenikongirl88 @NikonEurope @nikonownermag #nikonphotography @angelantics

@YVESWAUTHIER @wassila @NikonatGrays @HarrisonPhair @thenikongirl88 @NikonEurope @nikonownermag A lovely early autumnal capture of Hydrangea flowers with leaves

End of summer colours #z6 #nikonmirrorless @wassila @NikonatGrays @HarrisonPhair @thenikongirl88 @NikonEurope @nikonownermag #nikonphotography @angelantics

@Ed_P_Wildlife Thanks Ed!

@angelantics Excellent!

Some more from Corsica this morning. I'm assuming that this is the European Bee-wolf - Philanthus triangulum. Very active (temperatures well into the 30s) and difficult to photograph. Didn't find any nest holes or females carrying honeybees though. #WaspLove

@photobyparallax @Tuatara_9 @stevegphotog @JackPerksPhoto @timcsexton @stevewatkins1 @UniofNottingham @UoNLifeSci @jomcinerney I greatly enjoy interacting with the MSc students each year.

Having a wonderful set of students who work hard make teaching a pleasure @Tuatara_9 @stevegphotog @JackPerksPhoto @angelantics @timcsexton @stevewatkins1 @UniofNottingham @UoNLifeSci @jomcinerney

@Eucera @StevenFalk1 Thanks Stuart. Male ivy bees busily foraging on ivy here in Farnham

A sharp-tailed bee in our Surrey garden feeds on Sedum 10/9/019 Coelioxys ?conoidea @StevenFalk1 @Eucera When cloud covered sun it disappeared, but returned when sun came out – 3 times!

@StevenFalk1 @Eucera Many thanks. My other half should take the credit for spotting it. We have plenty of heathlands in the Farnham area and will look more carefully at foraging Megachile next year

@angelantics @Eucera Sure is conoidea - not often seen inland but the host (Megachile maritima) does occur inland in some southern heathland districts. Well spotted.