A local walk and a sunny day and the hedgerows were full of Hedera helix (Ivy) in full flower. They are visited by late-season butterflies, hover flies, other types of flies, wasps, bumble bees, and the ivy bee (a bee that specialises on ivy).
![](https://poetrypix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/butterflies_ivyflowers-2.jpg?w=640)
![](https://poetrypix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/butterflies_ivyflowers-1.jpg?w=640)
![](https://poetrypix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/butterflies_ivyflowers-3.jpg?w=640)
![](https://poetrypix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/butterflies_ivyflowers-6.jpg?w=640)
![](https://poetrypix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/butterflies_ivyflowers-7.jpg?w=480)
Seeing these butterflies feeding and the camera lens almost catching the straw-like proboscis detail, I am reminded of the Spanish film – La lengua de las mariposas (Butterfly tongues). Highly recommended!
For Entomologists:
Butterfly Conservation: Comma; Red Admiral;
They are not all the same – see On the tip of the butterfly’s tongue
For Film Buffs
Butterfly tongues
For Ivyphobes
Does Ivy kill trees?