Peony buds

Thank you for your comments and favs. I love your photos, too.

[~*~ Jo ~*~]

Lovely capture with visitors

[bruni]

Love to the ants on the buds..sure sign that the flower will open up.

[Monica]

You've got visitors!

[Diana]

Lovely shot and details, hope the ants don't damage them.

[Shutterbug]

Love your composition on this shot and the DoF.

[gloria jones]

Nice focus, details

[Beryl Lloyd]

A lovely image ,nice focus

[Margaret Brown]

Nice focus and the ants seem to like them too!

[Dione Giorgio]

Plus a few ants. Superb focus in this lovely capture.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Nice work on the details- Looks like this peony is well attended to! Good shot.

[Paul]

I haven't seen the ants working on ours yet. They'd better get busy! Nice shot this.

[KoalaGardens🐨]

lovely dof

[John]

Delightful to see the promising buds of this very beautiful flower.

[Santina]

very beautiful shot, I like the composition of these three buds of different sizes, the colors and the focus

[Pyrrhula]

Great capture of the buds. Do n`t like the ants on it. It`s often meand there are green fly to.

[Babs]

The ants seem to be enjoying the flowers too.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

@pyrrhula Anytime I have seen peonies in our area, there are ants on them. It just seems to be a natural thing for them. I also thought it added interest to the photo. I really did like your comment. Thank you.

I looked it up Pyrrhula and found this on the Internet:
Ants are attracted to and eat the sweet nectar secreted by the peony bud. Ants do not harm the plants, and the plants do not require ants to open.

[Shirley]

Seems you always see ants on peony buds. Nice capture !

[Taffy]

It's like they each have their assigned bud -- wonderful capture!

[Lois]

My favorites! I wish I could grow them here in zone 9!

[Faye Turner]

Nicely captured

[Michelle]

Flaming ants! lovely capture of the buds, I hope they don't do too much damage