Common Spotted Orchid

Common Spotted Orchid, Dactylorhiza fuchsii.  Three colour forms.
Orchid Bank at High Elms Country Park, 27 June 2013.

Common Spotted Orchids (or hyphenated, as Common Spotted-orchid) come in a variety of shades.  Most are like the middle example, and the others are at the ends of the colour range.

The light coloured ones look white, but are not truly white forms because the spotted pattern is still visible.  Unlike the white form of the Green-winged Orchid, which has no spots.

I thought that bee in the middle picture might have been feeding,  but it seems to have been just resting; I had to prod it to get it to show its face like that.  (It's a Tree Bumblebee, Bombus hypnorum.)

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