Late Spring and early Summer the Button Bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) blooms with showy, Star Wars-like (for those of us who remember the Death Star) blooms. Butterflies and insects love this flower. I took these shots during our last Brooker Creek Preserve hike before summer, the end of May.
I used a zoom lens to not only bring the flower closer, since these bloomed a few feet from the boardwalk, but also to blur the background. The flower itself appears in full bloom, and the small insect appears to be kissing the stamen.
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