Port and Wey: 18 Jun 23

Wakeham

There was quite a change in the weather today, with full cloud cover and the occasional light shower, but still quite warm.

Despite the gloomy conditions, there were quite a few interesting invertebrates seen today, with a Patchwork Leafcutter Bee (Megachile cetuncularis). A mining bee that I have yet to ID, a moth which got caught in a spiders web, and escaped before I could get a decent photograph of it and finally an odd looking bug.

Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
3 Swift
2 House Martin
Dunnock
Blackbird
Great Tit
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch

Dragonflies and Damselflies Recorded:
1 Azure Damselfly

Butterflies Recorded:
None

Moths Recorded:
moth sp.

moth sp.

Bees Recorded:
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)

#1 - Garden Bumblebee (Bombus hortorum)

#2 - Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
#3 - Patchwork Leafcutter Bee (Megachile cetuncularis)
#4 - mining bee sp.

#1 - Garden Bumblebee (Bombus hortorum)

#2 - Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)

#3 -This is a Patchwork Leafcutter Bee (Megachile cetuncularis) and very similar to the leafcutter bee I used to have nesting in my bee house in Swindon Here. More info on leafcutter bees Here and Megachile cetuncularis Here.