Surrounded by Insects, Under a Floral Vine!

It's a calm Saturday with soft sunshine mixed with May wind. A pleasant fragrance called me to come to its side. It was the sharp but comfortable fragrance coming from Sathawari flowers. Sathawari, is a well-known herb, aka Hathawariya in our general life. If you haven't seen it yet, it is a vine with thorns. Leaves are thin and long.

If you know this vine, have you ever seen the flower of Sathawari? If not, let me show you. Sathawari has a very small beautiful flower. The flowers are blooming as bunches. There are thousands of small flowers in one bunch.

Sathawari flower has a sharp fragrance that motivates insects to attract there. Not only insects but also humans like me. Moring is the best time for the Sathawari flower. When I was in front of the plant, there were hundreds of bees, bugs, flys, and ants.

It was a wonderful feeling to be surrounded by hundreds of insects under a snow-looking floral vine. Let me show you some of the known and unknown insects.

How many flys you can see? Two here.. They were flying from flower to flower and enjoyed fresh honey (maybe). It wasn't easy to focus the camera on flys because they were that dynamic.

The vine is expanded to the roof and this area was the most pretties. Especially, there was something special I must tell you. It's a nest of Potter wasp a (Kumbala). Fortunately, the owner of the house was at home on this pleasant morning.

I had to climb on a chair to get a closer look at Potter's wasp. You can see his yellow stripes in his black-colored body. Potter wasp used drops of mud to build his nest. He has the ability to bind the particles of mud together. Aren't they wonderful?

A 1-2 cm insects building a nest by bringing mud using his small mandibles.

I could able to have one lucky shot before I finish the photoshoot. It's a butterfly. To me, it is challenging to capture butterflies. But today, he came so close. I think the fragrance attracts them from far away places.

The butterfly was a big one with black and white dots. He wasn't there for that long, but I was already ready prepared.