Laura Mallaghan Illustration

Today is World Bee Day! I'm seeing some bees buzzing around many flowers on the hottest day of the month! They're working hard to collect the pollens, so they make sweet and delicious honey and thriving all the plants! I read that my local town left so many weeds and wildflowers on the path and around the public field so that bees and other pollinating insects can do their important job! View this post on Instagram Pardon the weeds, we are feeding the bees! Look out for signs in the grass verges of Kettering and Corby Boroughs. We’re encouraging wildflowers to provide a valuable source of pollen at a time of year when there isn’t much about for bees and pollinators! Pic from @ravthered #ThisisKettering #NorthantsTogether #kettering #corby #flowers #weeds #bees #pollinators #pollination #wildflowers #wildflower #northants A post shared by This is Kettering (@thisiskettering) on Apr 21, 2020 at 12:46am PDT For today celebration, I thought I'll illustrat...

It's Summer Bank Holiday today! I had lovely long bank holiday weekend, as I have spend whole weekend and today some illustrations that I'm catching up. I have missed illustrating very, very much as I'm working on the weekday and most of the weekend I have been busy, as well as felt drained from work that I needed some relaxation. Since the Summer is nearly end and haven't been blogged this month yet. So I thought the topic of this blog is photography.  This photography is all about the insects that I took many photos of from this summer and the past. Here are the collections of each year in Summer. Summer 2017  28th August : I helped this poor Large White butterfly today, he was in the middle of my garden, struggling to fly, I gave him some water from my fingers and placed him on the flowers from large flower pot if he need some nectaries as well as to rest. 9th July : Honey bee collected some pollen from the lavender.  22nd May : I saw thi...