Orchid Swallowtail

[John53]

That plant brings in a number of different insects, making it a good choice to find subjects to photograph. It is a wasp of some sort. I always called something similar a wood wasp when I was a child, but it was a name I made up. It might be species of the genus Euodynerus, but I don't know the Hymenoptera so well to know.

There are some bees on the flowerheads just below the fly, but they aren't in focus.

It looks like the flowers of spring onions when they go to seed. Insects love them too.

 

[exchemist]

A bit bigger than the Monarch butterflies that I grew up with. But we had a species of swallowtail that would get as large. The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail:

Minnesota Seasons - eastern tiger swallowtail

Actually it seems we do have a swallowtail: Papilio machaon - Wikipedia But it is confined to the Norfolk Broads (the area, not the women), which I have never visited (neither the area nor the women), so I've never seen it (or them).

But this isn't as big as the Aussie one.

I suppose @John53 must be thankful to have at least one species of native arthropod that isn't venomous.

 

[ChristineM]

Would that be about a C cup?

Fixed it

 

[Subduction Zone]

Fixed it

I liked it more before

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Looks like a small bee hovering next to it?

I think that black and white wasp in flight is a potter/mason wasp. Not a positive ID, but the best I have come up with since you mentioned it.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Would that be about a C cup?

Prominent moths?

 

[Subduction Zone]

Prominent moths?

???

At any rate @ChristineM fixed her post. Oh wait! It should still be in my quote.

But your joke still eludes me.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

???

At any rate @ChristineM fixed her post. Oh wait! It should still be in my quote.

But your joke still eludes me.

Thinking of something prominent reminded me of those moths.