20 Jun 25

Wakeham

Below are a few photos and a video taken in the back garden today.

One of the resident Collard Doves flew up into the Sycamore behind the garden and then..........

...........seemed surprised to see me below.

This Colletes bee sp. was sat quietly on this Crown Daisy Glebionis coronaria, when from....

........nowhere this.....

.......Sweat bee sp. scared it off.

Another Colletes bee sp.

And a Colletes bee sp. in slow-motion.

Possibly a Mason Bee

A Dead Head Hoverfly Myathropa florea. So called because there is a skull like pattern on its thorax.

At the moment it appears that male Swollen-thighed Beetles Oedemera nobilis are more numerous than the females.

A Trivial Plant Bug Closterotomus rivialis. I'm beginning to think that both this Trivial Plant Bug and the Swollen-thighed Beetle above are the only beetles and bugs about!!

A very very small "Greenbottle-type" fly Lucilia sp.

It seems that the Flower Spider Misumena vatia has found a new Crown Daisy Glebionis coronaria, in the wildflower patch, to sit and wait on for its next meal to appear.