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Deb Oppermann

The Sea Holly is a fascinating, unique plant that is steel blue and spiny. It has a wonderful architectural form and colored foliage that is valued in the summer garden. It definitely adds interest and the blue stars are quite striking.
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Steel blue Sea Holly in vertical
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Albert Cardona

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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 inaturalist.org/observations/1 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 inaturalist.org/observations/1 (see also inaturalist.org/observations/1 )

A set of sea holly flowers in silvery colours, displaying their spiky leaves and central berry-shaped bunch of pistils and stamens.
A tachinid fly in bright orange/brown over black colours sits on a sea holly flower alongside a butterfly whose wings are of dark brown tones with some black spots on orange patches.
#iNaturalist#SeaHolly#Diptera
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