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A bee visits the purple flower of the artichoke, close-up nature photography.

Beautiful purple thistle in bloom on sunlight

Milk Thistle plant with violet flowers in the parkland

Adult green female of Praying Mantis (Mantis religiosa) sitting on a stem of thistle plant

A Wool carder bee gathers pollen from a flower in summer in the Laurentian forest.

$Also known as Mary thistle or holy thistle, milk thistle grows in Mediterranean countries and people use it to make natural remedies.\n\nThe active ingredient in milk thistle is called silymarin. Doctors mainly use the plant to treat liver problems, but some people claim it can lower cholesterol and help manage type 2 diabetes.$

High angle closeup view of Wild Carrot or Queen Anne’s Lace growing among Summer grasses in the countryside near Armidale in NSW

Short to medium stoloniferous, blackish-hairy, perennial. Leaves mostly in a basal rosette, bluish-green, elliptical to lanceolate, untoothed, short-stalked; stem leaves 1-4, smaller. Flower heads orange-brown or orange-red, 13-15mm, in fairly tight clusters.

Bumblebee perched on a thistle flower in summer

Milk thistle, Silybum marianum, is an important medicinal plant.

Close up of a common salsify (tragopogan porrifolius) flower in bloom

Neoalosterna capitata Beetle on a flower in the Laurentian forest.

blue flourishing Eryngium befor green background of plants in sunshine at Tulln, Austria

Beautiful Zygaenidae on Field Scabious. Was seen in the European Alps in summer.

Close-up of a bumblebee on a purple flower, showcasing the bee’s detailed features and the vibrant colors of the flower in a natural outdoor setting.

$The chequered skipper or arctic skipper (Carterocephalus palaemon), not to be confused with the large chequered skipper, is a small woodland butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. This butterfly can live in grasslands. The upperside of the butterfly is brown with orange spots and on its underside the chequered skipper is orange with brown spots. Chequered skippers are found in Great Britain and other European regions, but seen locally in Japan and in North America. The size of the chequered skipper ranges from 19 to 32 mm with females being larger. In the 1970s, the chequered skipper went extinct in England due to the new management of the woodlands.\nDescription:\nThis butterfly has a wingspan of 29 to 31 mm. The uppersides of chequered skippers are dark brown with orange scales at the base of the wings and golden spots, giving it its English name of chequered skipper. The basic pattern on the underside is similar but the forewings are orange with dark spots, and the hindwings are russet with cream spots rimmed in black. The sexes are similar although females are generally slightly larger.\nHabitat:\nThough the chequered skipper is a woodland butterfly it can also be found in bogs, at the edges of streams, and at grassy forest openings . Chequered skippers can breed in open grasslands in Scotland. In woodland areas the breeding sites happen at the edges of rivers and the bottom of slopes. Though there is a small range in the areas the butterfly can live in, these areas tend to have a smaller range in seasonal and temperature range. The presence of the M. caerulea is really important in determining habitat in Scotland and in England the Bromus is essential. In North America, chequered skippers can be found around forest trails, forest edges, and open grassy areas. Even though the chequered skipper goes by arctic skipper it does not live in Arctic areas (source Wikipedia).\n\nThis Picture is made during a long weekend in the Eifel (Germany) in June 2019.$

A selective focus of a bee flying over a blooming purple artichoke for wallpaper and background

Bee working on a wonderful love-in-a-mist - very special flower

Metallic Blue and Silver Sea Holly in front of a Smoke Tree

Thistles in a field on a wet, cold October morning in North Yorkshire, England, UK

The seed of Knautia macedonia macedonian scabious plant on green background

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