WakehamBelow are a few photos from the back garden today.
Sat on this
Oxeye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare is a
Colletes bee again. As to which one I still don't know. Obsidentify is 99% sure it is either
Davies' Colletes C. daviesanus,
Hairy-saddled Colletes C. fodiens or
Bare-saddled Colletes C. similis. They are so similar, I don't think I'll be able to ID which one this is!!
And this small ichneumon wasp is.....
.............a Syrphid Parasite Wasp Syrphoctonus tarsatorius. AKA Diplazontine Wasp
A Greenbottle Lucilia sp. sat on an Oxeye Daisy.
Also on an Oxeye Daisy was this female Swollen-thighed Beetle Oedemera nobilis
This is
Evening Primrose Oenothera biennis and is thriving very well in the garden since I collected seeds from Vaycroft Quarry in 2020. It is also known as
Evening Star and
Sundrop. Behind it is
Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria, which I have had since 1986, when I had one in my garden pond in Norfolk. Every time I moved I used to take a small piece and grow it in my next garden. Thirty-nine years on and it is still doing well.
