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Cleaning time

Cleaning time

A hoverfly having just fed from a Forget-Me-Not bloom cleans it's feeding tube.

A hoverfly having just fed from a Forget-Me-Not bloom cleans it's feeding tube.
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Aperture f/22.0 ISO 160 Shutter 1/80

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Apr, 2013

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