The world is so beautiful

🌿☀️🪴 Plants, nature appreciation, and curious exploration in Leicestershire, UK.

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I can't believe this url wasn't taken I'm changing my blog name fr

Also new pinned post under construction (old one is a bit outdated since the move etc)

[polychaete-of-the-day]

Today's worm is just a teeny little critter, here to say hi and wish you a good day. Rhynchospio sp.

Photo by Siobhan O'Neill

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I was trying to identify this caterpillar (shoutout naturespot) in my purple toadflax, and turns out it's a Toadflax Brocade! Absolutely love it when that happens. Yeah of course you'd be on the toadflax. Typical behaviour

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He turns into a beautiful moth too 🥰

[herpsandbirds]

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I was trying to identify this caterpillar (shoutout naturespot) in my purple toadflax, and turns out it's a Toadflax Brocade! Absolutely love it when that happens. Yeah of course you'd be on the toadflax. Typical behaviour

[quilbug-cam]

I was starstruck when I first saw these!! They're absolutely gorgeous and their eyes are so mesmerising🥹

It was my first season seeing them, and then I started noticing them everywhere xD I hope I see them again next season✨

🪲ID Guess: Blue Eyes Lacewing - Nymphes myrmeleonoides 🌿Date: December 2025

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It was really windy so there weren't many bumblebees around, this one was very brave though

[kristo-flowers]

Clematis

[geopsych]

Yellow flowers in the garden. A sunflower, probably from bird seed, flowers of the cup plant, tall coneflower, sometimes called green-headed coneflower, heliopsis, and a different variety of sunflower. They bring all the pollinators to the yard!

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First tomato to turn red 🍅

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Bugs love my beautiful yarrow...

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What the fuck is wrong with people 😭 there is no 'fly issue' outside, you just suck. That's their house you bitch. They're out there pollinating your flowers and your ungrateful ass has the audacity to act like this? Same for wasps. Leave them the fuck alone!!

[dramatic-dolphin]

look at this pretty gal i saw today 😊 she was soooooo big, and very chill!

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So cool!!!

[janewilsonrva]

Ferns & Granite

Richmond, Virginia (USA)

Photo from June 1, 2024.

[poop-me-a-flower]

Hybrid hibiscus ‘Spinderella’ is blooming again! Also, the slugs are eating my poor rhubarb.

[michaelnordeman]

Eurasian tree sparrow/Passer montanus/pilfink, juvenile. Värmland, Sweden (19 July 2026).

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Purple toadflax is a big favourite with the bumblebees 💜