A day in the garden again enjoying the warm sunshine.
Below are a few photos from today:
bee sp.
A Garden Bumblebee Bombus hortorum on Red Valerian Centranthus ruber
A Yellow-legged Mining Bee Andrena flavipe
A Thick-legged hoverfly Syritta pipiens on an Oxeye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare and...
.............another Thick-legged hoverfly on another Oxeye Daisy. Seems to be a popular daisy.
A male Swollen-thighed Beetle Oedemera nobilis on a California Poppy Eschscholzia californica........
.............and a female on a Crown Daisy Glebionis coronaria
And the Flower Spider Misumena vatia waiting on its favourite Crown Daisy Glebionis coronaria for its next meal. And an hour...........
..............later it had caught what looks like a House Fly from the Muscidae family.