It sure looks like we are in for some really hot weather over the next few days and today was pretty warm. So much so that Ted and I stayed at home where there was plenty of shade and water.
It was also a day where I invited a local architect to oversee the groundwork and building, of a shed and a summerhouse-like structure at the back of the garden. Hopefully, if all goes well, we well be using both facilities before this Autumn.
So what was in the garden today.
And it was good to see that there was a Pellitory Beauty Cosmopterix pulchrimella in ............
.............the same spot where I saw one a few days back. This is possibly a male displaying.
A Honey Bee Apis mellifera approaches the Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria.
And the............
..................Willughby's Leafcutter Bee Megachile willughbiella is still visiting the lavender.
A Vagrant Hoverfly Eupeodes corollae..............
..................on an Oxeye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare.
On this Crown Daisy Glebionis coronaria is a Thick-legged hoverfly Syritta pipiens
A Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus.
And this is a Big-spot Anthomyia Anthomyia procellaris
Also on an Oxeye Daisy was this Potato Capsid Closterotomus norwegicus.
A bit of shade for Ted.