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This bud’s for you

A Praying Mantis on a Plumeria with flowers and buds in Hawaii
A Praying Mantis on a Plumeria with flowers and buds.

This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Celebrate Spring or Autumn.’ See more responses here.

Since we’re a little shy on seasonal changes here, I’m going with some nominal signs of Spring, namely flowers budding out and blooming.

A Bee on haole koa flowers and buds in Hawaii
A bee on Haole Koa with buds and spent flowers.
A Peregrina flower and buds in Hawaii
A Peregrina flower and buds.
A Bee on mock orange flowers and buds in Hawaii
A bee on Mock Orange flowers and buds.

Favorite flowers in Hawaii

Flexibility is important in nature, as this mourning gecko demonstrates while drinking from a bird of paradise flower.
A Mourning Gecko takes a drink from a Bird of Paradise flower.

This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Favorite Flowers.’ Here are some of mine. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here

Maiapilo flowers in Hawaii
Maiapilo flowers start out white and change to pink as the day wears on,
Yellow and pink Hibiscus tiliaceus flowers in Hawaii
Hibiscus Tiliaceus, Hau in Hawaii, also changes color through the day.
An Hawaii ‘Amakihi with Mamane flowers.
A Wasp in an Ohia flower in Hawaii
A wasp in an Ohia Lehua flower.
Raindrops on Plumerias in Hawaii
Raindrops on Plumerias.
A bee forages through the blooms of a mock orange.
A bee on Mock Orange flowers.

And finally some photos from the Hilo Orchid Show last year. I’ve definitely become an orchid fan since moving here.

An Epidendrum Pacific Pastel orchid at the Hilo Orchid Show in Hawaii
Epidendrum Pacific Pastel.
A Paphiopedilum St. Swithin orchid at the Hilo Orchid Show in Hawaii
Paphiopedilum St. Swithin.
A Monnierara Millennium Magic 'Witchcraft' orchid at the Hilo Orchid Show in Hawaii
Monnierara Millennium Magic ‘Witchcraft.’

The Numbers Game #29

Not a chocolate bar, but a mud-covered car. How did it get that way? Original post here.

The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 150. Apart from the top photo, it’s all about plants this week. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

A Coqui Frog nestled in a ginger flower.
An orange and white orchid in Hawaii
Some kind of orchid I think.
A Bee approaches a mock-orange in Hawaii
A bee approaches Mock Orange flowers, already laden with pollen.
A gecko on a pink banana.
A Bubblegum Heliconia.
A Toothbrush Orchid.

All abuzz

A bee approaches a mock orange flower in Hawaii
A bee on a mock orange flower in Hawaii
A bee on a mock orange flower in Hawaii

The mock orange by the house is in full bloom again and the bees have been having a field days with the flowers. It’s a case of getting it while they can because, while the blooms are prolific, they’re short-lived. In the meantime, the flowers’ fragrance fills the air.

A bee on a mock orange flower in Hawaii

Passion Vine Butterfly on Blue Heliotrope

A Passion Vine Butterfly on Blue Heliotrope

At Upolu Airport, there’s a mock orange hedge and through it grows a passion vine. The hedge used to be trimmed once in a while, but the flowers attracted to all kinds of insects and was teeming with life. Passion Vine Butterflies laid eggs there and their caterpillars ran amok munching on leaves.

These days the hedge is kept trimmed and is the poorer for it. It’s basically lifeless. I see the odd butterfly, an occasional caterpillar and that’s it. So Passion Vine Butterflies, which I used to see all the time, have thinned out considerably in that area. However, I did spot this one feeding on Blue Heliotrope flowers not too far away.

Butt out

A Bee on a mock orange.

When I got home from work yesterday afternoon, the sun was shining, the mock orange was blooming, and the bees were busy. So I took some photos, the last one of which was the top one, which is posted in response to Bushboy’s Last on the Card photo challenge (see more responses here).

That photo is unedited for the challenge, but the bottom one shows how I’d edit it, mostly involving a crop to remove some dead space and put the bee in a better place.

A Bee on a mock orange.