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Sea hollies are beautiful plants, and well loved by bumblebees and other native bees, as well as butterflies and beetles, and even unusual flies such as some tachinids.

Here, a paler, more silvery sea holly native of the #Pyrenees: Eryngium bourgatii, that goes by the local name of Panical Blau https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/127059485 Loses most of its blue tones upon drying out.

And a tachinid fly, Nowickia sp., sipping nectar from a Sea Holly alongside an Erebia epiphron butterfly https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/127196497 (see also https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/127196434 )

#iNaturalist #SeaHolly #Diptera #Lepidoptera #entomology #insects