Catch Up 6: Gratuitous Hoverflies

Last catch up. Hurrah!!

I like hoverflies.

Hold on, let my qualify that statement. I definitely don't like them buzzing around my head. But I do admire their neatness.

I don't know what the shrub is though. Suggestions welcome.

Oxen-born Bees - Fact and Legend

Baron Karl-Robert von Osten-Sacken (1828, St. Petersburg –1906, Heidelberg) was a Russian diplomat and entomologist. He served as the Russian consul general in New York during the American Civil War, living in the United States from 1856 to 1877.