Monday in Nature Weekly Photo July 20, 2015

[funkag]

<p>Hungry Bumblebee - Soapwort Gentians make them work for it, too.</p><div></div>

[Nick D.]

<p>Poppies<br>

<img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-giJLA9DO56U/Va2wv2HXUCI/AAAAAAAABEw/1i-LKg3dPTk/s1600/Poppy%2527s.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="760" /></p>

[paul_de_ley]

<p>If it promises not to bring a swarm of (a million?) friends, then I wouldn't mind adopting this little duotone locust.</p><div></div>

[thadley]

<p><img src="/photo/18057143" alt="" />I am not sure what flower this is but I found it in my local park. </p>

[thadley]

<p>Flower attached.</p><div></div>

[colin carron]

<p>Edwin, thanks! Mary, thanks for the id on the bee!</p>

[Mary Doo]

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<p>I am not sure what flower this is but I found it in my local park.</p>

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<p>Tony, it looks like a type of <a href="http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/indiana/journeywithnature/blazing-star-wildflowers.xml">prairie blazing star (Liatris pycnostachya)</a> - a butterfly and bee magnet!</p>

[roman_p]

<p>Clouds...</p><div></div>

[greg s]

<p>The appropriate pet would be a photo of the bioluminescent fungi I saw at night in the Philippines (Bohol). All night long like a an animated fairyland. But I don't have a photo, was not equipped for that subject.<br>

Instead, here's a snake from a different Philippine island ... Palawan. (Mangrove Snake)</p>

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